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Inclusive Tours
TRAVEL organizations concentrate at this period of the holiday season on what are described as Inclusive Tours. They do so because people who have not yet decided upon their holiday must have been either too busy or too lazy to give the matter proper attention, and this class of tour offers a simple way out. The Inclusive Tour saves the lazy individual the trouble of thinking for himself ; it also offers the busy person a last-minute choice of holiday without sacrifice of comfort or convenience. Choose a country, pay a sum over a counter, and the thing is done.
Shall it be Germany ? Then Messrs. Cook's will gladly arrange a 15-days' holiday for a stun of £23 and allow the visitor the fol. lowing choice of dates for starting :—July 13th or 27th, August 10th or 24th, Sep. tember 7th. If it be Italy, one may go to that country on a tour of similar duration at a cost of only £2 more and leave on July 20th or August 7th. To many other countries Inclusive Tours are possible, and these at reasonable prices and within the usual holiday space of two or throe weeks. Most travel agents prepare itineraries best likely to suit the avera.ga pocket and taste. Their own guides escort the parties through. out the tours, and one has nothing to do but follow directions. The conducted tour, however, does not suit everyone. For the more fastidious, independent tours can always he planned at a slightly higher figure and almost at a moment's notice, and the services of appointed local guides can be claimed when required. But this profitable field of travel is not left entirely to the resources of enterprising agencies. Governments and railways take a hand in some of the planning themselves and offer prospective visitors stipulated tours at reasonable fixed prices. As an instance, a fortnight's independent tour of Austria may be undertaken through the official Austrian State Travel Bureau in London for as little as £18 12s. 6d. (2nd class). The terms are inclusive of hotel charges, taxes and tips, as well as of fares. The Danish Tourist Bureau, in conjunction with the L. & N.E. Railway's Harwich—Esbjerg service, will provide facilities for a 10-days' holiday to Denmark for an ine'usive sum of £9 19s. and upwards. The Polish Travel Office will allow you to spend five clear days in Poland out of a 16-days' tour, which includes visits to Brthiselsi; Cologne, • Nniemberg and Prague, and costa 28 gns. inclusive. The Yugoslavia organization will send you to that country on a tour lasting 16 days and including a visit of exploration along the Dalmatian Coast. The charge is 28 gns. The foregoing are not the only tours re- commended, but are given to show what kind of facilities are offered intending tra- vellers by foreign government travel- offices in London, the addresses of most of which were published in a recent issue.
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