TOURIST TRADE
BIG DECLINE BECAUSE OF THE WAR
The steep decline in overseas tourist traffic because of the war is disclosed in the annual report of the Tourist and Publicity Department, which was tabled in the House of Representatives yesterday. The total number of tourists for the year ended March 31 last was 6891. as compared with 21,762 the year before and 19,532 in 1937-38. Compared with the year 1938-39 visitors from Australia dropped from 16,690 to 3950 and from the United Kingdom from 2100 to 795.
The report remarks that the drop became noticeable some little time before war broke out, particularly in the case of the United Kingdom, and immediately on the outbreak of war pleasure travel from the United Kingdom ceased entirely. American and Australian travel also fell away to practically nothing. However, with the decision by the United States Government to allow their ships to visit belligerent countries in the Pacific, and the fact that this ocean has been kept free from enemy raiders, a small but fairly steady trickle of visitors has resumed. The war has greatly developed the possibilities so far as the East are concerned because of the impossibility of Europeans proceeding to the Old Country for their leave, and the insistence of employers that leave outside the Tropics must still be taken.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 21, 24 July 1940, Page 6
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220TOURIST TRADE Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 21, 24 July 1940, Page 6
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