Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rush has left the islands' hotelkeepers, restaurateurs and developers in a slightly dazed state of euphoria. In 1950 some 32,000 tourists visited Nassau; in 1962 there were 438,000. In the same period, visitors to Jamaica jumped from about 74,000 to 223,000. The Virgin Islands' share rose from 15,000 in 1949 to 300,000 last year, Puerto Rico's from 65,000 to about 500,000. Looking to the future, Caribbean developers note with gratification that the average age of the winterized tourist is decreasing. Only five years ago, most tourists were...
...last book sat across from a closely twined couple not even pretending an interest in the copy of Burckhardt open before them. Through the main arch he could just make out the automatic lady in the Widener Room reciting her litany of shipwreck and bookish treasure to yet another tourist. She stood secure as any beadsman, knowing that no Philistine administrator would ever violate her walls or blot out her sun. The Widener deed of gift would forbid such ignoble intrusions upon the Room, and even the new addition could fill the court only as high as her window sills...
Price Wars. Sonnabend is worried about the developing price war among hotelmen who have started offering special family rates, tourist class rooms, and discounts on rooms to big corporate users and conventions. Says Sonnabend: "We seem to have forgotten the expensive lesson of the Great Depression, when we discovered that the total market for hotel rooms is rather inflexible and that cutting prices really did not help...
Police said they first spotted the teacher, one Rudolf Friedman, as he muttered uncomplimentary remarks about socialist realism while strolling through Leningrad's Russian Museum. A well-dressed U.S. tourist approached him, enthusiastically shared his sentiments, and promised to send Friedman reproductions of avant-garde paintings from America. The picture Friedman liked best, said the cops indignantly, was a "chaos of black, red and blue splotches captioned / Need You Tonight." Soon, they said, the teacher was getting messages from the U.S. written in invisible ink. Just as Friedman prepared to deliver information "very remote from theoretical arguments about abstract...
...some 125,000 acres. But alert Big Sureans could discern the beginnings of encroachment: Carmel Highlands, just above Big Sur. has been blotched by free-for-all development, and San Luis Obispo to the south is a well-known eyesore. Tourism began to boom; in 1952 only 2,500 tourist cars passed through Big Sur on an average summer Sunday' in 1961 it was up to 6,000. and last year 8,863 cars were turned away at Pfeiffer-Big Sur State Park for lack of camping facilities. Big Sur's inhabitants realized that their fastness was about...