Word: tourister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Travel agents, flooded with reservation demands, call it the most fantastic season ever. Last-minute holiday planners-even those willing to settle for any room in any hotel on any island-meet with derisive laughter. "This is truly a bounty year for us," glowed the head of the Caribbean Tourist Association in New York. "In all my 32 years in Miami Beach, I've never seen such pressure for reservations," crowed Doral Hotel Director Jean S. Suits. "Saturday night there were guests sleeping in my office. They were even in the cabanas and the solarium...
...TOURISM. The biggest public impact will be caused by Johnson's proposal to cut the amount of duty-free goods that U.S. tourists may bring home from $100 at wholesale value to $50 at retail value. Whisky, rugs, custom-made suits and other goods, which can now be shipped home as part of a tourist's duty-free allotment, henceforth will be taxed regardless of whether the tourist has spent his allotment. Projected dollar savings: about $100 million a year...
Rather than concentrate only on the negative aspects of the payments problem, the Johnson Administration plans some positive steps to attract foreign funds to the U.S. to balance the outflow of dollars. To narrow the tourist gap-U.S. travelers last year left more than $2 billion abroad v. $1.1 billion spent by foreigners visiting the U.S.-the Government will step up its promotion to lure more travelers from abroad. Among the latest features: $99 bus tickets good for unlimited travel through the nation. To woo more foreign investors, the Administration plans to give them tax breaks on their...
Okinawa is no tourist paradise, but womanly Norma Reich, 36, who arrived there Oct. 19 from Manhattan to see her husband, a major in the 3rd Marine Division, likes him so much that she wants to stay there. Try telling that to the Marines, who (unlike the Army and the Navy) regard Okinawa as a combat-ready assignment and limit dependents' visits to 60 days. So Norma took her 60, then flew to Japan and bounced back on a 60-day tourist visa that expires Feb. 12. The leathernecks are getting pretty chafed about it, but Norma is determined...
Considering this qualified opinion (the area turned a profit with its very first year of full operations last season) with the facts that the state of Vermont is spending heavily on road improvement in the area in anticipation of an expanding tourist industry, and that soon a nearby exchange to the Interstate Turnpike will put Boston less than two and one-half hours away, the future doesn't look too risky at that...