Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-04-07
ALEXANDER HUME FORD EXPECTED
TO Do GOOD WORK FOR PHILIPPINES

ment follow the Tourist, and II viii
paw you in these islands a tremendous
dividend to invest in a publicity COM
mittee that will have sufficient funds
to plan trips for the tourist who is
always willing to pay his way. But
the way must first be created.
In all the Australian states and
in New Zealand booklets are gotten
out showing all OF the possible trips
from the cities and the coast. etc. No
information is omitted that would be
of use to the tourist who is in the
land. If private concerns will not es-
tablish necessary auto routes, the gov
eminent does it. or subsidies private
individuals as long as the subsidy is
needed In West Australia steamboat
excursion routes have been built up
I in this way. and one island has been
made a great summer resort that is
now a paying asset to the state.
The great trouble today around the
Pacific is that each tourist bureau Is
! working along independent lines, ig-
norant Of what is being accomplished
by the others. whereas If they all
worked and pulled together, they
would have a hundredfcld more force
in drawing people to the Pacific
I'm each country there is a tours.
bureau that does one or more things
better than those things are done else
where in the world; for instance it IS
a marvel how your publicity commit
tee gets out the literature it does on
the very small financial encourage
of AnTs
what it could do if it were adequately
supported.
81 believe that the greatest invest
ment that any tourist bureau could
make would be to send its leading
worker around the Pacific on a years
/ trip to study what the other tourist
bureaus are doing; or, better still, If
we could all get together in one pa
vilion at the Panama exposition and
exchange information while we are
distributing literature and knowledge
of our own Pacific country to the
| American people, l believe that we
could all return to our respective
countries with an accumulated knowl-
edge that would be Invaluable to our
selves, to the entire Pacific, and to
the whole world of travel and COM
| merce.
| "At the Australasian convention in
| Sydney it was decidad that if the tour
list bureaus would get together a de-
| scriptive guide book to the Pacific
outlining the Pacific tours around the
Pacific at cost Of from S. a day up,
the steamship companies would print
and distribute a million of these, and
we are now at work on this project.
The information in this hook will
cover side trips such as the interist
ands cruise among the Philippines,
and in Hawaii, Fiji, Australasia, and
the Dutch Indies. 1t is all a matter
of cooperation and getting together.
"In Hawaii we have an annual ban
Guet of 500 people from every part of
the Pacific, when we exchange ideas
and get TO know. one aHether~a little
better. From these banquets was
born the Hands-Around-the-Pa Pacific
movement, so that we get all Of the
people OF the Pacific together work
ing for the Pacific.
81 have spent but a day in Manila.
but l have certainly found it the
quaintest and most Interesting city
fromsan artistic point of view that
have so far encountered on my travels
around the Pacific. With your people
as enthusiastically interested in at
tracing the tourist as in Australia
and Hawaii. believe that you could
make the Philippine islands world,
known tourist resort that the round
the-Paeific tourist could not afford to
omit from his itinerary, and with the
proper support given your publicity
committee to extend it's work 10 in,
clude the taking care of the tourist
after he arrives, l believe a new era
of prosperity would dawn on Manila
and large part of the island of Lu
zon"