TOURIST TRADE IN BRITAIN
(Rec. 10.30 p.m.) LONDON. Oct. 1. By the end of the year. Britain will I probably have earned 75.000.000 dollars from American tourists. The British Travel Association announced to-day that already 75.023 Americans had visited Britain this year for holidays and another 21,000 had passed through on their way to other countries. It was expected that by the end of the year more than 135.000 Americans would have come to Britain either as visitor? or in transit. Commenting on the figures. Lord Hacking, chairman of the association, said: “Devaluation should help to overcome the complaints of high prices in Britain,“but American tourists will not stay here long unless we improve our tourist facilities. The number of •hotels suitable for catering for tourists is less than before the war.”
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25924, 3 October 1949, Page 7
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