Evening star., 1945-06-03
The Travellers Notebook
Virginia Beach Puts Out the Welcome Mat;
Cape May County Expects Busiest Season;
Sea Island Beach Calls to Sun-Worshipers

during the dinner hour. When
evening shadows fall there is dane
ing in the Palm Patio to the music
of Dave Garson's orchestra.
The Georgian Bay Line cruise
ships, the North American and the
South American, will start the regu-
lar summer schedule of seven-day
round trips Saturday, June 16, from
Chicago and Buffalo, respectively, it
was announced last week.
Wildwood-by- -the-Sea, N. j., re-
ports bungalow and apartment
rentals have reached an all-time
peak and that hotel and guest home
proprietors have never had such
heavy early booking.
Drum fish hit in the Delaware
Bay region last week with many
catches reported.
The Wildwood Bureau of Publicity
is distributing 32-page hotel,
guest home and apartment di-
rectory. 1t is free for the asking.
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There is feverish activity in Latin
America; activity aimed at the
postwar traveller. In Sac Paulo,
Brazil, hotels are rising so fast that
even the old-timers are bewildered
And the tourist who visits Peru
after the war will find it is no
longer necessary for him to pack
tent to explore the lost city of
Machu Picchu because a good hotel
now perches on the dizzy summit
Governments and businessmen are
| joining hands to meet the postwar
tourist rush, although in some re-
publics a single man has blazed the
trail, states an article in the Inter-
American magazine for June.
Antonio Ruiz Galindo of Mexico,
for example, is typical of the spirit
of the times. A pioneer in the
tourist business in Latin America,
he is president of the Mexican Hotel
Association. In 1941 he helped Or
ganize the American Hotel
Association. In his opinion, hotels
are a civiliZing influence.
Five years ago Ruiz Galindo
opened fine hotel in Fortin as
an experiment. He hires all his
help among the villagers, and
teaches them cleanliness and eff
cheney. He finds that, as he hoped
the Indians are quick to apply
what they learn at the hotel to
their own homes
Adolfo Aristazabal, a Colombian
businessman. has just built luxury
hotel in Cali. To-day a hotel is
not just business" he stated, Its
standard of living. A nation with
poor hotels has even poorer dwell
ings for its people"
You cannot travel in Latin
America today without being made
aware of the contribution of Euro
pean refugees. In La PaZ, Bolivia,
you will find the Quisisana, a res
taurant famous in Vienna in the
days before Hitler. 1t is not the
same, of course. 1t is small and
plain. But the food is Just as good
as it ever was, for it is owned by
the same man, now prematurely
aged from the terrors of Dachau.
In lovely Cali, Colombia, the two
best pensiones are French and Dam
lsh. The only tearoom belongs to
an eX-bank teller from Cologne.
The Hotel Pacifico, Colombia, is
owned by German refugee who
chose this out-of-the-w world spot on
the Pan-American highway en- route
to Quito, Ecuador, because he be-
lieves that with its scenic beauty
and picturesque Indians 1t is a
natural tourist attraction. "All 1t
needs" he says, 'is a little house.
cleaning"
In Argentina, $1,000 men are busy
building roads. Work is also being
pushed on roads to Paraguay and
Brazil while rest houses and auto
stations are being set up.
The good old North American
tourist, goggled: guide booked and
camera -slung Is expected in droves
after the war, and Latin America
is doing her utmost to see that he
Will be interested, comfortable, we'll
fed and happy.
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