Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-18

If Arizona is alive to her oppor-
tunity and rovides attractive roads
and desirable hotels, she STANDS az
the door of a wonderful Opportunity
in the tourist business. The presen.
tourist business is of negligible pre-
portions to what will be coming a2ons
within the course of another decade
Thirty million dollars is easily within
the possibilities of the annual cash
brought to the state from tourist
traffic and it might exceed that AL
these facts are cleaned from an
interview with Frank A. Dudley, o.
Niagara Falls, N. Y, who arrived
in Douglas yesterday from the cast
and remained over night at the
Hotel Palomar. He will continue
today to Tucson where he intends to
remain for stay OF some Gays.
Mr.. Dudley is president of the
American Hotel corporation and also
of the United Hotels company with
administrative offices in New York
all of the principal cities of the
east and north. The nearest hotel
of that chain to Douglas will be the
FL Conquistatdor at Tucson After
that, the hotel OF the company at
Kansas City and one az Seattle are
the next nearest. Their hotels are
principally along the Atlantic sea-
board and the larger cities extending
well into Canada.
What Tourist Trade Will Mean
'"Tc me, the future of this great
southwest appears remarkably bright
and attractive" said Mr.. Dudley
"There are two things that will be
required to make that future certain.
The first is one of roads-by that
I mean paved roads that are good
second is hoAelS. The nc:ei, to be
attractive, must be one thai renders
a service without oStentation but
with a finesse that appeals to all.
With those two factors assured, and
I doubt not that they will be assured
because your people are keen and
alert to their own interests, have
nc hesitancy in torecaSting that
Arizona, as her share of the business,
will be getting tourist traffic that
will bring $3OO0O000 to the business
interests of the state each year. And
that will not be long in being realized.
"Let me suggest one OF my major
reasons in verturing such g pre-
diction Our hotel companies have
an organization that reaches cut into
the cities in a wide area, operating
as we do, Sc hotels. There is a
large and a growing factor of our
trade that comes from the motor
tourist. had realized for some time
that this was gradually increasing
each year and something more than
a year ago I set about to ascertain
with a definiteness just what that
business meant to our hotel and to
the city, in Toronto, Canada, one
of the magnets for tourists in that
section of the continent.
Merchant Gets Big Share
"Our survey started with the open
ing CT 1927. 1 have my reports only
to September but here is the proof
of the statement that the motor
tourist-and that is the only tourist
1 am discussing now-is great
and profitable cash customer every
where. We determined that the
motor tourist for the period covered,
brought to the city of Toronto the
sum of $19,000,000 and that OF the
total $ll000000 was spent over the
counter with the merchant. That is
merely typical. That is what will
be happening in Arizona within
decade.
1.-The people OF the more populoas
portions of the continent need the
outlet for motoring that this great
affords. They are yet