WORTH A FORTUNE

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 11, 12 July 1930, Page 17

WORTH A FORTUNE

TOURISTS IN FRANCE

New Zealand-might.envy France her tourist industry, for it is worth many, millions a year. Among the numerous Under-Secre-taryships of M. Tardieu's new Cabinet is the new post of High Commissioned of Tourism, which is held by M. Gaston Gerard, deputy for Dijon, says tho "Manchester Guardian." '... For some time it has been said that tourism was declining in France, but some figures just' published by the National Office of Tourism do not suggest this, at any rate, they show that tourisn,' is. still flourishing. According tp this report. 759,359 English tourists visited.'Franco last year, not including' 121,686 excursionists who came to; the North, of Prance on a single day, and 400,000 of them are.estimated to have stayed morethan 48 hours. . ':■■:',.: :.-. The total number of American tourists for last year is estimated.at:22o,----000, and that of Spanish tourists! at 534,000. The report says that the stay of the American tourists in France was Shorter than it had been" in -pfevipus years, and that they did "not spend bo much money, but, nevtreheless, it\ estimates tho averago expenditure of an. American tourist at £440. The total amount spent by tourists in France last year is estimated at-£ I'JOiOOO.OOO. of which ouo-thirc! \vas.-spcnt.ift-Paris, onethird in watering-places, and the./Teihaining third in other parts it'MsmsMt