Word: tourister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...came upon "a great flight of beautifully constructed stone-faced terraces, perhaps a hundred of them, each hundreds of feet long and ten feet high." Bingham died five years ago, after spending much of his free time exploring and writing about Machu Picchu. and watching it become a growing tourist attraction. Hundreds of others have studied, scraped and photographed the lost city. There are still great gaps in their knowledge, and little agreement on the significance of what they know. Fittingly enough, the best known-and most romantic-history of Machu Picchu was compiled by Discoverer Bingham himself...
Whatever the numerous reasons for the fall-off-world tensions, recession, eagerness to visit Asian or other off-beat tourist spots-the fact is that the once-favored European gathering places for Americans are getting fewer dollars. In Paris' Lido cabaret, which last year turned away people by the hundreds every night, any customer can get a table now. Luxury hotels such as the Ritz, George V, Crillon and Plaza Athenée have dropped 15% in American bookings, and some of the lesser hotels are off 50% to 60%. The big travel agencies, American Express and Cooks, report...
First sign of the dip in England came in May, when American tourism dropped 10%. Car rentals have slowed 20%. The Savoy reported that while its clerks are still turning down applications for rooms this year, the application rate is much lower. In Stockholm, hotels got their expected tourist increase not from Americans but from Finns, and Copenhagen travel agencies are getting a higher-than-usual rate of cancellations (as high as 20%). In Italy, hotel and tour cancellations from Americans are running anywhere from 10% to 35% ahead of last year...
...clerks, and, above all, that grand old European institution, the concierge. "The European concierge," one traveler has explained, "is a combination of all-round fixer and archangel, the man who sees and knows everything and can do almost anything. He must combine the talents of a living telephone directory, tourist guide, psychologist, businessman, detective, procurer, blackmailer and infinitely tolerant uncle...
Justerini & Brooks is trying to step up sales of its Scotch at home. Paradoxically, J. & B. is known in only a few London bars and hotels. But the biggest target remains the drinking American, wherever lie may be. Hoping to tap the U.S. tourist market, J. & B. last week was lining up distributors from Athens to Amsterdam. "We are aiming,'' declared a director, "at a chain so great that no matter where an American goes in Europe, he will never be without...