Evening star., 1939-09-10
The ruveIer's Notebook
American Will Always Travel in Great Numbers,
And, Even With Europe Blocked Out, There
Are Many Places to See

, Grace Line, Cuban Mail Line. United
Fruit and the Puerto Rico Line.
Under present plans. no less than
two dozen sailings are scheduled to
these ports in September alone.
Panama Pacific liners now offer
(and presumably will continue to
do so unless there is critical turn
diversified itinerary. The passen-
ger may sail from New York for
the West Coast via Baltimore, Cris-
tobal, Balboa, Acapulco CMeXico),
Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Variety is introduced by breaking
the trip at New Orleans or Gal
weston, Tex, and continuing to Cali
fornia by rail, returning by air or
rail to Washington.
Malcolm LaPrade. the man from
Cooks" Thomas Cook g. Son, one
of the few companies in the travel
business prior to the last World
War, is optimistic not only over
the domestic but the world travel
situation. He says:
Despite the present world situ-
alton. we anticipate that many
avenues of tourist travel will remain
open. and we believe that domestic
travel and foreign travel in certain
directions will continue Our own
American winter resorts, particu-
larly those of Florida and Southern
California, should enjoy good sea-
sons. Increased efforts will be made
| in the promotion of tourist travel to
Mexico and We look for considerable
| traffic to that country. If condi-
| tions affecting maritime travel on
| this side of the world are not too
seriously disorganized by the war in
Europe, satisfactory winter season
in those areas can be expected.
*It is quite possible that a clarifi-
cation of the situation in the Far
East may tend to restore tourist
travel in that direction. The
| Hawaiian Islands should, of course.
continue to attract large numbers
of visitors. At present we are work.
ing out plans for winter and spring
travel in all available directions,
both domestic and foreign. Since
the beginning of Cooks business in
184l the firm has managed ito
weather many storms, and we shall
continue to carry on to the best of
our ability in the face of present
world conditions
Mrs. Laura Waters of the Waters
Travel Agency, who attended the
board meeting of the American
Steamship and Travel Agents last
week in New York, visited a number
OF offices of the travel industry
there and learned that plans are
being formulated to sell America in
big way.
The United States is rich in
travel attractions" Mrs. Waters said,
land the traveller whose first choice,
Europe, is eliminated, has the de-
lightful alternative of discovering
something new. Right in Washing
tons own territory are pleasant
steamer trips to the Norfolk area.
tours to Williamsburg; farther South,
the Great Smokes. The Florida
season no doubt will start earlier.
In fact, Eastern Seashore and noun
tain resorts will be responsive more
than ever to what the public wants,
will stay open as late or begin the
season as early as vacatiOnists de-
mand.
New Orleans and the Southwest
come to attention in the early fall.
It's probably news to number of
travellers that dude ranching is an
all-winter diversion in the South
west. Sea Island, Ga, will come
more into the spotlight. Cali
fornia and the Golden Gate Ex-
position brighten the far West, and
Hawaii, only few days out of San
Francisco, offers memorable sea
voyage. Winter will bring Sun VAL
ley, Idaho, into its own again.
There's Mexico and other pan
American countries-a wealth of
places. Travellers will hear more
about them when the new travel
plans get under way"
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Railroads and airlines will be
geared to the new demands on
travel, for domestic transportation
will have an opportunity such as it
has not had within a generation.
w. Bruce MacNamee, director OF
the United States Travel Bureau,
under the Department of Interior,
has this to say:
with Europe now roped of to
tourist travel, the department is ac-
celebrating its efforts to recapture
major portion of the $700 900, 600
annually spent by tourists from the
Americas. 1t is estimated that $780,
600, 900 is expended by Latin Amer
leans in Europe each year. Re-
tention of this huge amount is now
possible for the first time in gen.
Grafton and an intensive program
to that end is being conducted by
private travel promotion interests
with the assistance of the United
States Travel Bureau. An all-t1me
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