TOURIST EFFICIENCY

Taranaki Daily News, 14 March 1935, Page 13

TOURIST EFFICIENCY

ENGLISH VISITORS TRIBUTE. INTELLIGENCE OF SERVICE. By Telegraph—Press Association. Hastings, March 13. In the light of her experiences with the Government Tourist Department in London and New Zealand, the Duchess of Westminster considers that there is not another travel bureau in the world to rival it in the completeness of its organisation or one which makes travel so carefree. She said at Napier yesterday that she gave this opinion advisedly after repeated visits to many European countries.

“Often agencies in Italy and Germany merely run their fingers over the map,” she said, “and to all intents and purposes there is very little that they can tell you, but your Government Tourist Department arranges everything and its representatives are intelligent.” The Duchess said that well-to-do English people were travelling much further than they did before the war. Then they paid yearly visits to Cannes, Nice or Germany and Austrian and Italian towns and watering places. Now they went further afield and showed a much more intelligent interest in the colonies.