16 MARCH 1929, Page 31

Spring Travel Notes

NCE we opened a Travel Bureau two years ago to facilitate e holiday arrangements of our readers, the preponderance of nquiries for foreign travel has been increasingly noticeable. erhaps it is that we in Britain know our homeland so well rat we are obliged to go abroad in search of pastures new. the other hand, it may be that British resorts having sue- y hidden their light under a bushel, we are ignorant of e holiday pleasures our country offers. Whichever it be, e fact remains that once we have been tempted to leave ritain for our holidays we are reluctant to do otherwise, and r this reason it is satisfying to learn that a new association been formed under the auspices of the Department of erseas"rrade to help make the attractions of Britain better wn abroad. For whatever happens, our resorts must have tronage to be able to exist, at all, and if they cannot retain e support of Britons, they must seek to encourage foreign urists. A spark of interest in our country has happily been ndled in many of our readers in America and the Colonies ugh the Travel Bureau ; we should like to answer many re of these inquiries.

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