Word: tourister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...side streets, brushing shoulders with stewbums in cowboy boots and pale-faced hoods with patent-leather hair. At the Hippodrom, on a lurid avenue appropriately named Grosse Freiheit, bored horses trot in a circle as equally bored equestriennes strip while balancing on their backs. Along the Raper, a tourist can shoot a fake duck, get a tattoo, watch an "intimate" movie in Technicolor, or cheer a brace of Amazons clad only in black panties as they wrestle...
...Black Gang. What a tourist can do most easily, though, is get clipped. Unwary visitors commonly find themselves staring at bills for as much as $80 after a brief bout of drinking. One sucker discovered to his horror that he had been buying champagne for the whole house, including band and B-girls, and finally coughed up $600. Blackmail, extortion and strong-arm tactics complete the repertory, and in recent years many a waiter has become an owner himself, or else tucked away a small fortune before leaving the Raper for more respectable surroundings...
...convert their properties to sight-seeing attractions can get state assistance. Ireland has budgeted $30 million for hotel development. Egypt, aware that increasing tourism will soon bring in about as much as tolls on the Suez Canal ($170 million), is spending $60 million on 40 new hotels, Nile River tourist boats and a Red Sea fishing resort at Ghardaka. The government now floodlights the Sphinx and the Pyramids of Giza, and stagey a four-language "Sound and Light" panorama that relates the story of the Pharaohs. India is subsidizing airplane trips to the remote temples of Konarak. To ease Occidental...
Along with improving tourist facilities at home, governments promote aggressively abroad. There are now no fewer than 520 state tourist-information offices in foreign places (105 in New York City). Britain, Canada and Mexico each spend $3,000,000 a year on promotions, and Australia allows tax deductions for companies sponsoring tourist advertising. The promotions have created new spots to attract worldweary travelers. Jordan, the only Arab nation without oil, intends to wipe out its annual $40 million budget deficit with tourists. The government has allotted $21 million for new hotels, is advertising both its camel races...
...lately lures have been directed at near neighbors and Americans, whose spending is so lavish that foreign resort owners eagerly followed the progress of the U.S. tax-cut bill. But jet planes, higher incomes and the loosening of foreign-exchange restrictions have spread the net. Switzerland may soon begin tourist campaigns in Australia, Japan and Latin America. Spain, whose tourist income has risen 500% in five years to $900 million, has started an ethnic enticement toward Latin America. East Africa's safari promotions have drawn inquiries from Russia...