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...foreign tourist, a species once limited to corporate tycoons and wandering rock stars, is abroad in the land. Direct flights from Tokyo to San Francisco are booked solid for the next three weeks, and the number of Japanese visitors to Las Vegas now runs to about 5,000 a month. In New York City, arriving Europeans want to see Times Square and Harlem and then fly south to Disney World. All this activity represents not just world prosperity but also the swooning collapse of the once almighty dollar, which has sunk 7% against the yen and 10.5% against the Swiss...
During the Wimbledon tennis matches, one of the most popular meeting places for the American players and their wives was a coin laundry just off trendy Carnaby Street. Americans balked at the high cost of sending their laundry out. One tourist, in fact, was arrested for trying to escape from a London laundry without paying his bill. He claimed that the cost of the washing exceeded the value of his clothes. The magistrate told him to check prices beforehand...
...worshipers pour into Saint-Tropez, Sainte-Maxime, Cannes, Nice and Menton. When they arrive, along with myriad motorists who are clogging France's autoroute du soleil, a rude shock is waiting: no accommodations are available. As many as 1,000 people a day are redirected by the local tourist office to the Maritime Alps, inland and anywhere from 50 to 100 miles...
When a sewage purification plant in the town of Saint-Raphael overloaded, effluent poured into the sea, yet authorities were unable to keep campers out of the water despite an overpowering stench. Tourist officials claim that most beaches are safe for bathing, but the French monthly magazine Science et vie reports that health officials have found 649 cases of "negligible" pollution, 361 cases of the "medium" variety and 23 cases of "strong pollution" at 138 Mediterranean locations, among them Antibes, Cannes and Nice...
...Prices have gone wild on Sardinia's ritzy Costa Smeralda, where, at one Porto Cervo nightspot, a dish of ice cream costs $7.50 and a dinner tab of $175 a person is paid without a wince. "Porto Cervo is just one big slot machine," says one bemused American tourist. "Nobody cares." Italian vacationers obviously have the same blithe attitude toward water pollution as their counterparts in France: at the Roman resorts of Ostia and Fregene, bathers frolic only a few miles from Rome's principal raw-sewage outlets...