Evening star., 1933-06-11
FRANCE MAKES BID
/ TO DRAW TOURISTS
Efforts Made to Rebuild
Traffic to Record Season
of 1929.
gpeciai Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
PARIS, June 10 (N.ANA).-Great
efforts are being made by the tourist
department to encourage foreign visi-
tors to come to France and also to in
duce the French to travel more them
selves.
The former is no easy proposition.
Tourist traffic in France has suffered
foreign visitors to the country was
1,911,107. In 1882 it fell to 944,358;
1881 was better year, but that was ac-
counted for by the colonial exhibition.
Everything is being done to win back
the lost million There are increased
facilities for transporting automobiles
acroSs the Channel, there Is every
Hlandishment for the motorist once he
iS on French roads. And even If Swift
zeriand is his goal. he is reminded that
his best route is by way of Abbeville,
Amiens. Compiegne, scissors, Chateau
Thierry. Troyes, Dion, Dole and
thence to Geneva or Lausanne, through
some 500 miles of the most beautiful
country of France, ending with the
drive over the Jura Mountains.
Places Are Renamed.
OF course, the tourist would simply
have to side-track little in the battle
areas and interesting towns in the
eompiegne Forest, for example, to see
the famous "armistice coach
: For those who want few weeks by
the sea, the guide books are ready
with the most alluring names. The
Silver Coast (Cote d'Argent) had al
ready been substituted for the Basque
Seaboard and to it have now been added
Cofa cfN
for the watering places just north of
the Spanish frontier, the Cote de Jade
fJade Coast for the region south of
the Loires Mouth, the Cote dEmer-
4ude Emerald COAST for the Dinard
district and the Cote de Nacre (Mother
Of Pearl COAST for the Deauville Coast
North of the Loire and La Baule have
decided to call themselves the Cote
glamour Gove COAST!
: The Frenchman himself is certainly
doing more travelling. The time is
long past when it was possible for
Michelet to begin his course of lectures
On British history with the opening.
@Gentlemen, Great Britain is an island
Now you know as much as do about
st."
Travel Encouraged.
The general director of the French
State Railways, M. Raoul Dautry, has
Just been presented with the gold
medal of the Touring Club de France in
recognition of his services to travel. One
Of his most successful schemes enables
q person to travel from Paris to Lon
don and back, with all meals included
and days conducted sight seeing In
the British capital, for less than $40 at
the present rate of exchange. Passports
are not needed for this excursion,
marvellous one for the price, and many
American living or staying in Paris
have taken advantage of it.
s There are many economic crisis"
facilities of similar nature at home
for the temptation of Parisians, includ-
ing cheap Sunday season ticket which
can be used on any of the state lines
8 Another inducement to travel is the
exhibition at the Care st. Lazare where
Parisians may examine the various
types of rail motor-coaches which will
soon be carrying suburban traffic and
also running between Paris and Deau-
Vile. Some of them are double deck
ers"
tCopyright, 1899. BY North American News
paper Alliance, 1nc.l