Word: tourists
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...motor scooters. In the Virgin Islands he ducks the fancy restaurants and lunches on a sandwich at the beach. In Puerto Rico he chooses a poolside beer over a banana daiquiri. His credentials: an economy-flight air ticket and a fistful of travel-agency coupons. This is the summer tourist. And thrifty though he may be, he is creating a bustling new industry from Bermuda and the Caribbean west to Mexico-a sun belt better known for its winter lures than its summer tours. Says a busy Nassau hotel manager: "There has never been a summer like...
...fashionable Montego Bay on Jamaica's north coast, summer rates for a single room without meals run as low as $6 to $10 a day. For a trifle more the tourist can move into Sam Lord's Castle, a modernized, 133-year-old manse on the southeast coast of Barbados. Winter rate for a single room including meals: $20 to $40 a day. Summer rate: $15 to $25. Last April, Cancel Bay Plantation in the Virgin Islands began offering a special package for honeymooners: champagne on arrival, free gifts, nine days and eight nights of beachfront living...
Nothing Royal. Getting the summer customer into the hotel, though, is only half the battle. Coming from the center of the pie rather than the upper crust, the off-season tourist makes his dollar stretch a country mile. Many Nassau bars and restaurants close down for the summer, and the specialty-shop operators yearn for winter's big-time spenders. "In the winter they buy Royal Crown Derby," says a Virgin Islands china-shop owner. "In the summer, it's Heinrich." Social directors sometimes grouse that the summer people are unschooled in resort life. "They...
What Central City has found is that it can combine good opera with tourist-drawing memorabilia of the Old West and graft on a few colorful traditions of its own. Ushers in long coats and high boots ring bells up and down Eureka Street announcing the opera performances like town criers. Opening day saw square dances in front of the opera house, and a surrey with the fringe on top conveyed dignitaries to the ceremonies. The nostalgically inclined can bucket out to deserted mines in Jeeps, watch a pony-express ride, or stare at The Face on the Barroom Floor...
...Frommer ground rules are spartan. Though $5 a day covers a room and three meals, exclusive of transportation costs, a frugal tourist is reminded: 1) "Never ask for a private bath with your hotel room. Few Europeans regard a bath or shower as a daily necessity." 2) "Try filling up on two or three continental breakfasts in place of eggs and bacon." 3) "Never patronize a restaurant that doesn't display a menu in its window." 4) "Don't leap to find a hotel. Check your bags at the airport or train station while...