Business: Here Come the Foreign Tourists

Whether they call it dinero, Geld or argent, it all means money

They are everywhere, camping in Alaska, stamping to the beat of New Orleans jazz, tramping up Nob Hill, wolfing down lobsters on Nantucket, shooting white water on the Colorado River, besieging Bloomingdale's. Foreign tourists love a bargain as much as anybody else, and thanks to the decline of the dollar, the U.S. rather suddenly has become the world's major travel bargain. In consequence, the nation is finally getting a nice slice of international tourism, which is one of the biggest and fastest...

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