Word: tourister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Patterson behind his back, could be dictatorial. Reasoning that first-class passengers could not watch in-flight movies and enjoy meals at the same time, Patterson cut out the movies. And on the scarcely convincing grounds that "stewardesses are not barmaids," United dispenses no drinks in tourist class on flights where it has no competition. Patterson's latest complaint is about the youth fare (TIME, April 22), which offers reduced rates to the 12-to-22 age group. "I wish," he growled last week, that "kids carrying banjos and ukuleles and looking for a new picket line would find...
...basic meat-and-potatoes information, the tourist must look elsewhere. If he is in range, the best guides to most of his needs are produced by the French tire factory, Michelin & Cie. The Michelin Guides cover most of Western Europe in four languages and in two series. Michelin Green is an excellent illustrated sightseeing guide, heavy on history. Michelin Red, whose annual ratings can make or break any leading restaurant in France, is the undisputed arbiter of the world's finest cuisine. Unfortunately, Michelin covers neither entertainment npr shopping, and is no help at all to the tourist wondering...
Whatever their individual merits, all general guidebooks to Europe share one important fault: they lag far behind in reflecting the major tourist trends. One case in point is an almost generalized failure to report that the Iron Curtain countries have begun to welcome tourists-and are beginning to swing. Hungarian night life and restaurants are just about as gay as they were in the good old days. Bulgaria is plugging a two-week stay on the sunny Black Sea coast for $91, including air fare from Vienna. Another popular Vienna excursion: down the Danube by hydrofoil for a weekend...
Most professional guidebook writers still shape their books for the first-time tourists. But millions of Americans are now second, third and fourth-time tourists, and they are looking for new and exciting things to do. The guides will have to take account of this new reality or else risk losing an important part of their following. Many travelers already rely for their information on journalism, on the generally current calendars of events handed out by government tourist offices-and, above all, on a mass of excellent literary travel books, whose aim is not information but inspiration, not sightseeing...
Living year-round in this wretched tourist town is a gang of resolute ne'er-do-wells who wait for the swinging summer months to con the vacationers. Leader of the group is Tinker (Oliver Reed), a street photographer and sex mechanic, who snaps pictures of new arrivals, his way of tagging every new bird on the scene. He and his cronies nest down with most of them, though their conquests seem singularly joyless. Typical, for Tinker, is one giddy pickup who starts nattering about love the minute she gets her clothes...