OVERSEAS TRAVEL
British ‘Lack Initiative’ (N.Z.P.A Copyright) OXFORD, Sept 21. The British public lacked the initiative to “sample for the first time the delights of travel abroad,” the chairman of the Association of British Travel Agents (Mr E. C. Garner) said today. Mr Garner told a week-end meeting of the Institute of Travel Agents in Oxford that: “To far too many people, the old gag about ’wogs begin at Calais’ still sums up their basic anxiety about taking the plunge and tasting the unfamiliarity of travel in other countries where the language is strange, the currency bewildering, the food unpronouncable and where the traffic drives on the wrong side of the road.” Travel agents also shared the blame for the slow growth of travel by the British, said Mr Garner.
There was in some promoters’ minds a “streak of hidebound caution against trying anything new,” he said.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30553, 23 September 1964, Page 14
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