Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...popular travel book this summer is London on $500 a Day (Macmillan; $7.95), a not-so-whimsical guide for "the well-heeled sybarite." In a season when sybarites, and a lot of other people, are staying home in herds, the book has not notably eased Harold Wilson's balance of payments problems. As its title suggests, however, the shoestring vacation abroad has gone the way of the Gladstone bag and $4 Moët et Chandon...
Zooming air fares, European inflation and the dwindling power of the dollar have combined to squeeze the annual American exodus. From all indications, fewer than 7 million Americans will go overseas this year, down about 7% from 1974, and about 20% below halcyon 1973. Latest figures show that travel to Europe, normally the destination of three out of seven Americans going overseas, is off 10%. Notes Victor Minerbo, a familiar Parisian presence who for years has wheedled business for the restaurant in the Eiffel Tower: "Look around and see how many Americans you can spot! None...
Cruise ships in Greece are half-filled; quietly, like duchesses dating salesmen, several first-class hotels in Paris are selling rooms en bloc to package-tour companies. Says David Jones, an official of the British Tourist Authority: "The Americans have given up travel. They just don't have the money...
Those Americans who do still make it to Europe are largely the affluent. Indeed, the European travel industry finds some comfort in the fact that Americans are still the biggest spenders around; in France they shell out an average $63 a day, v. $26 for the Germans.* But almost everywhere Yankee tourists have been learning home truths abroad: they have been buying less, staying at cheaper hotels, taking subways and buses. Many have discovered the less traveled provinces of France, such as Burgundy and Périgord, where $5 still buys a good dinner with wine. Others have stretched shrunken...
Free Champagne. More and more vacationers have whittled air fares by booking charter flights and package tours. Says Virginia Donohue, of Donohue Travel in Wilmette, Ill., "The only people going to Europe this year-and these are people who have been going to Europe since they were children, an don't buy tours-are coming in askin for charters and free information like where can they get a list of Irish farm houses where they can stay...