More Americans Visit
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The Pacific
About 110,000 US tourists visited the Pacific and Far East last year compared with 90,000 in 1960, according to a recent review and forecast of world travel prepared by William D.
Patterson for “The Saturday Review” of New York.
The review says that 7,205,000 American tourists journeyed abroad in 1961 and spent 2,640 million dollars in the process.
Those who visited the Pacific and Far East spent 105 million dollars.
Figures show that 13,979 tourists visited Fiji in the year ended June 30, 1961, compared with 14,505 the previous year.
New Caledonia’s figures for the same periods were 2,147 (971), and Tahiti’s figures were 16,682 (12,000). Tahiti’s figures in each case included an estimated 10,000 cruise ship passengers.