American Tourists.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14268, 6 August 1910, Page 2 (Supplement)

American Tourists.

£15,000,000 TO SPEND. If tlie amount oi' money expended by Americans in foreign travel ean be regarded aa a barometer of this country's prosperity, .says a New York payer of Juno 4th, tiie United States was never possessed oil such a superabundance of cash as this year.. 'The steamship companies report record bookings to Europe. •'We have never before had such a year," the representatives of one of the greatest touristy agencies observed to day. "Ihe tule of travel to Europe exceeds even that created by the Paris Exposition, which has hitherto been regarded as the record year." , Within the i:;-;l four weeks fiftyeigur Atlantic Ji.nors will carry 17,000 brs.,-c!;>.s,s passengers to the other side -tins number does not include some 8000 travellers by the smaller lines In the course of the next three months these bfMik.ngs w,ii V swelled In- at h.. ils L U.i.000 cio.ro. • Taking the average expenditure of the American tourist during; a suty days' trip at £IOO, a very moderate computation, it will be seen that Europe may expect to benefit this year by at least £15,000,000 from the invux of American visitors. In the great liners tbo average price |>a:<l by first-class passengers to and tro is -LJ.J, to wJuco must be added £0 in tie siiape of tips. The stewards ol the trans-Atlantic fleet are anticipating a golden harvest during the ensuing montii. Tl.- v;iv|, majority ( ,f American tourists thu: ye:ri S . composed more markedly than over before, it is said or snhricu men and their vives and daughters ratnijr than of merchants and independent business men. The exodus of college professors and school teachers men and women, will be on an unprecedented scale. The bookings of secondens--; ncdhs, „„ the other hand, hear tn { "7 J' Ul "™ *° the <*°*™K summo,- for they will be filled with servant maioa who, with the excellent v.-a-cs pr..d here regard a trip "home" everv two or three years as a legitimate mrans of spending their holidays and *neir surplus cash. As always, London is the first and last, cntrc of attraction to the nverw helnnng majority of American tourists, though a large percent-a-re of (hem have arr;.ng,,M, v ;,i! Ohe-Ammergau as wel as to include Berlin and Paris before their return.