Word: traveled
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...change in U.S. traveling patterns is already starting to have substantial effects. Until late last year, U.S. travel to Europe and the Mediterranean was setting records, thanks partly to the buying power of the strong dollar. Some 6.4 million Americans visited European countries in 1985, up from 5.8 million the previous year. Now the trade magazine Travel Industry Monthly expects European tourism by Americans to fall by about 25% in 1986. Western Europe's total revenue from U.S. tourists is expected to drop by $2 billion in 1986, from a record $7 billion last year...
...hardest-hit travel destination in the Mediterranean region appears to be Egypt, where some 8,000 police conscripts heavily damaged luxury hotels near the Pyramids when they went on an impromptu riot in February. About 80% of the Americans who planned to visit the country have now canceled their reservations, thus wiping out most of the $100 million in U.S. tourism revenues that Egypt stood to gain this year. Says Adel Zaki, manager of ETA Tours, a large Egyptian travel agency: "This year is going to be a catastrophe...
...Israel, a Jerusalem travel agent complains just as bitterly that "our season has been screwed." Last year tourism earned the country $1.1 billion, and Israeli tourist officials had expect ed 1986 to be another big year, with more than 500,000 Americans due to visit, vs. 433,000 last year. Now, says Israeli Tourism Spokeswoman Bonnie Goldman, "we're lucky if we match 1984's figure of 400,000. We're worried and concerned about it." With reason: at a convention of high-risk-insurance agents in Jerusalem last week, only 150 of the 500 scheduled guests actually showed...
...economic injury will be sizable in Italy and Greece, which could lose up to half of their American visitors this summer. (About 2 million Americans toured Italy last year, while 466,000 went to Greece.) Some private travel agents expect the drop to be more like 80%. For Italian luxury hotels and cruise liners, cancellations by U.S. tourists are running from 25% to 60%. France, which gains more than $700 million a year from U.S. tourists, expects to lose as much as a quarter of that business. West Germany could lose up to 40% of its U.S. tourism revenue. Because...
...promotion that stars such non-Hellenic celebrities as Sally Struthers and E.G. Marshall, who proclaim that they are "going home to Greece." A former Egyptian Ambassador to the U.S., Ashraf Ghorbal, went on a goodwill tour of six American states last month to boost his country's image among travel writers and politicians. Governments have improved security in recent months, but the displays of armed force in some cases may have frightened off more tourists than terrorists. Says Connie Nicholson, an administrator at the American College in Paris: "When you see three or four cops with rifles slung over their...