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SK—Lord Altrincham may be right about the facts; I do not think his conclusions result logically from them.
Undoubtedly visitors from Europe and the Commonwealth, especially first-class visitors, are too frequently enraged by certain practices of our government departments and government-owned organisations. But who supposes that a new Minister and a new Department are the sort of instruments to undo the work of others?
The quality of the statistics put before us is, as the article indicates, unsatisfactory. But anybody Who troubles to examine even this information—in the ways that, say, commercial advertising expendi- ture is scrutinised—is likely to reach the conclusion that all government tourist propaganda plays a !Mich smaller part in producing national tourist Income than those engaged in it would have us believe. The reason that traffic is going to the Continent rather than Britain is a very simple one: that continental hotels offer travel agents so much better concessions thar. do British hotels.
My conclusion is diametrically opposite to that of Lord Altrincham. If our national income from tourism is to be expanded, we want less government interference with, and expenditure on, tourism: not more.
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