Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-06-08

| one section IN ECUADOR, aIouiiu "iiieAi
cars can be shipped.
The matter of simplifying the RED
tape of passports and vlsas Is also
receiving widespread attention. Inc
Travel Division of the Pan American
Union has been plugging for years
| for a simple tourist card which
would admit citizens of any Amerl-
can nation into all of the others.
MANY other organizations have been
working along the same lines. Inc
Panamanian government has called
a special meeting in August OF lmmi-
grafton and tourist bureau ofnclaS
of the American republics. They
hope to draw up an inter-Amerlcan
agreement for some set OF simple
and uniform regulations for entry OF
tourists. The Third Inter-Amerlcan
Travel Congress, to be held IN
Buenos Aires in September, will also
take up this question, along with
other inter American projects Tor
encouraging tourist travel.
New Hotels Going Up.
The Latin American nations Will
not be caught unprepared for the
tourist rush. New hotels are bullolng
in all of the countries south of the
Rio Grande. Many are being spon-
sored by the governments. Peru
and Chile. to cite two examples, are
putting up a number of hotels In
areas which have special attractions
| for tourists. Government tourist
bureaus have been or are being Or
panized in almost every country
These encourage travel in various
ways, such as publication of attrac-
tive brochures, listing and inspect
ing accredited hotels, training COM
petent English-speaking guides te
conduct tourists, and taking care Of
any tourist complaints.
I With all of these preparations
the tourist of tomorrow will prop
ably not do as earlier tourists Il
Latin America did-travel iron
capital to capital and let that con
stitute seeing South America" HI
will see the capitals, of course, bu
he will also spend some time travel
ing through the country.
For instance, he will find tina
there is much more to Brazil thai
it's famous capital. He will EMO
visiting the old port cities OF Bahia
Racife, Para and Manaos up tn
Amazon, the beautiful resort a
Quitandinha, the interior town o
BeIlo Horizonte, and the rollln
green country of Southern Brazil
as well as Rio de Janeiro and Sa
Paulo.
Hostels in Uruguay.
In Argentina, he will visit tn
fashionable bathing resort of Ma
del Plata, the National Park
Manuel Huapi in the souther
Andes, the Cordoba Hills dotted wit
summer resorts, the Misiones Terri
tory, where early Jesuit missionarit
left beautiful mission churches. /
Uruguay, besides the popular beach,
along the Rio de la Plata shore, +
will visit some of the interit
paraderos-small, comfortable no!
tells put up by the government
vacation spots These are only
few examples of the less well-knoW
places he will find in every countr
The increase in inter-America
travel is not all from north to sout
| Many people of Central and Sout
America, who used to travel to Ell
rope for their vacations, are no
coming instead to the United State
The money that these tourists sper
| in this country, and the money TIL
our tourists spend in Latin Americ
| is an important aspect of foreie
| trade. The import and export
| tourist money is essentially the san
| as exchange of products betwee
| countries,