Word: travelled
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...valuable support is the tourist tax package that Lyndon Johnson is submitting to Congress this week. "We are going to do something about this," vowed Mills, and while it might not be precisely what the Administration has in mind, it will be designed to assuage the itch for travel that propels about 3,000,000 Americans-and 2 billion American dollars-overseas each year...
...spending on travel outside the Western Hemisphere by $350 million a year, part of a program to trim $3 billion from the estimated $3.5 billion to $4 billion balance of payments deficit, Johnson has set his sights on the big spenders. His major proposals: 1) a tax, effective May 1, on expenditures by travelers abroad of more than $10 a day, which is scarcely enough to pay for the sauce béarnaise on the tournedos at Maxim's; 2) a 5% tax on ship and air fares to the Eastern Hemisphere; and 3) cuts in the $100 customs...
...Whitney, who likes to visit Europe in the fall. Nor are notable numbers of tourists switching from the Alps to the Tetons, or from the music festival in Salzburg to Hemisfair in San Antonio. "We can't put our hands on a single cancellation," says Boston Travel Agent Bruce A. Rogal. Moreover, the State Department reports a 20% increase in passport applications...
Biggest of all the airplane-owning private travel groups in the U.S. is Washington-based Club Internationale, with 17,000 members in 35 cities. Unlike the others, it operates on the principle of "pay now, go later." Members kick in $995 in weekly installments over a three-year period. In each of the first two years, they are entitled to a ten-day vacation in the Caribbean or Central America. The third year brings the big payoff: 20 days in Europe...
...planning for the trip, which keeps excitement and enthusiasm building up." Now, for the 269 members who joined Club Internationale at the outset three years ago and have since been eagerly awaiting a European jackpot this summer, President Johnson's as yet unspecified intention to curb travel outside the hemisphere is adding anxiety. "I doubt that the European travel bans will really be prohibitive," says Weitzman, but the club is making plans for substitute 20-day trips to Central and South America-just in case...