Word: tourist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...your article on Americans vacationing overseas [July 25], you show a photo of a U.S. tourist kissing a Windsor Castle Guardsman in England. What would happen if I, a British citizen, attempted to kiss your President's Secret Service men? Make no mistake, that "little toy soldier" is a member of the British army and has probably served in Northern Ireland or the Falklands. I do not deny that his dress uniform is a tourist attraction, but a little respect should be shown to the man and his profession...
Like other celebrated markets, South Street Seaport is far more than a tourist attraction. In time it seems likely to become a habit for the region's residential and Manhattan's working populations, bringing a welcome new taste to the Big Apple...
...Japan is the second most powerful economy in the free world. Its trillion-dollar-a-year industrial machine accounts for 10% of the world's output. By 1990, the Japanese may achieve a per capita gross national product that surpasses that of the U.S. As a 19th century French tourist said of another island people, the English: "Mon Dieu, comme ils travaillent...
...number of nights spent by U.S. guests in Swiss hotels; a 10% jump is expected this year. Thanks to an inflation rate that has averaged 4.5% over the past five years, some hotels have not raised prices since 1980. In addition, notes John Geissler of the Swiss National Tourist Office, "you can eat in ordinary restaurants with reasonable prices and have a very good meal. You do not have to go to the luxury restaurants." Nonetheless, grande cuisine can be savored in Switzerland, notably at Girardet, near Lausanne, which ranks as one of the finest "French" restaurants in Europe...
...wonder. But after one too many meals in department-store cafeterias, one too many Dickensian bed-and-breakfasts and one too many afternoons of hauling dirty laundry around Zurich in a vain search for the cheap laundromats that Frommer assures us "abound" (they do not), even the most economical tourist may sneak a look at what Birnbaum...