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Visitors Last Year
CRUISE and round trip passenger steamship travel increased in all areas of the Pacific during 1964, the Trans-Pacific Passenger Con ference reported in San Francisco in January.
More than 116,000 persons crossed the Pacific last year on the 19 member lines of the Conference, a slight increase over 1963.
The report showed a two per cent, increase in cruise and round trip travel for Hawaii, a 10 per cent, increase in full cruise and round trip travel (with stopovers) for Australia and New Zealand, and a five per cent, increase in cruise and round trip travel (including stopovers) for Orient steamship travel.
Visitors sailing to Australia and New Zealand totalled more than 32,000, highest annual mark of the ’6os.
Another sign of the Pacific’s in creased tourist drawing power, was a 15 per cent, gain in total visitors to the Pacific last year.