The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-03-01
INCREASE OF TRAVEL
Eastern Railroad Man Says it is
Caused by Personally Con-
ducte1 Tours.
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Washington, Feb. 24-Eastern rail-
way companies are potent factors IN
building up the west. The rem
sylvania Railway company. through IT'S
system of personally conducted tours
through all parts of the west, IS one OF
/ the most effective Of these factors and
performs a service in western settle
1uent tnat should not be overlooked.
Mr.. George w. Boyd, the assistant gen
I eral passenger agent of the Pennsyl-
Vania Railroad company, has given
/ this branch of the service his especial
attention, and has recently, IN Wen
written pamphlet. given some interest
ing information regarding the develop
inent of personally conducted traVel
/ by the road he represents MT Boyu
/ places special Importance upon the
/ De ScnaIly conducted tourist system OF
I The railroad companies and believes II
! a more effective plan Of securing tour
/ list travel to the interesting points OF
/ the west than that of the independent
/ tourist agencies. In part, Mr.. Boyd
/ says:
IN recent years a large business has
/ developed in what may be termed
/ pleasure travel, undertaken in the
/ form Of special tours to various re-
] sorts, historic points Of interest, or 10
/ calities so endowed by nature as to
/ present an attractive field for vista
/ tiGn. The time has long since passed
/ when round trip tickets, covering
| transportation only, filled all require
/ ments of pleasure seekers IN tn5 al
I rection Of travel. The demand for new
! and more distant excursions In the pur-
+ suit of knowledge has arisen as our
/ country has progressed ~ civilization
/ and growth in wealth. The personally
| conducted tour system is the offspring
/ of special travel, created TO meet this
/ demand.
mo country in the world presents a
! wider scope for the exercise Of the de-
1 sire to travel than this continent of
ours. with its historical associations,
! numerous growing commercial and in
! dustrial centers, magnificent distances.
/ diverse climatic conditions, and Won
derful natural phenomena The Penn
( sylvania Railroad company started to
cultivate the personally conducted
| tourist business in 1887, since which
time it has remained constantly in the
field and the results, up to this time,
/ have been such as to convince its Of
ficials that this feature has passed the
/ experimental stage, and IS recOg-
niZed branch Of the passenger depart
| ment.
Personally conducted tours are
strictly created travel. j feel warrant
( ed in saying that 20 Ser cent e4 the
) business secured on this plan woule
not move at all under other circum-
stances. Experience has also demon
strated that the personally conducted
| system educates people to travel. and
thereby stimulates general railway
business. As an example. ten years
Z q a IN 10 Eopffio .arvsr,
to Denver or salt Lake, was cOnsfd-
cred quite an undertaking, and pleas
ure travel from the east had not
! reached any great proportions. This
business was carefully nurtured under
the personally conducted system, and
persons who first went to the coast
or to the Rocky mountain region as
tourists, upon becoming acquainted
with the attractions Of the regions
named made it a regular practice
thereafter TO spend their winters in
California or their summers in Colo
RADIO and Utah each year. The western
business has increased to such an ex-
tent that many of the principal hotels
are obliged, in the popular season OF
the year, TO turn away business, and
the result has been that all the rail
roal lines forming connecting links
/ across the continent, and the IOca
lines, have been directly benefited as
we'll as the hotels and the various 9TH
/ er allied enterprises.
THE conducting of tours, includine
hotel accommodations. carriage drives
and other features, inspires q feeling
of reciprocal obligation on the part OF
the hotels patTOnized, which does no
exist when the railroad company is hut
a smalI factor in the hands of an in.
dependem tourist agent. The opera
ton OF personally conducted tours by
the passenger department enables i
10 handle with accuracy and dispatch
and to the entire satisfaction of tn,
contracting parties, these importan
special tours
In conclusion Mr.. Boyd says that h
has an abiding faith in the ultimat
success of the personally conducte,
system Of handling special passenge
business by the railways themselves
and, in view of the Importance of tour
ist travel to western cities and comm
mites, the consummatiOn of Mr.. BOYD
wishes and predictions is of especia
importance throughout the west.
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