Business: The Tourist Tide Changes

A first: more overseas visitors than outbound Americans

"We're having one of our best summer seasons ever, but it is kind of weird. Maybe 25% of our tourists are not just from out of town, they're from out of the country."

So says Russell Rosen, manager of the Best Western Buccaneer Inn resort motel in Naples, Fla., by way of describing the biggest change in tourist travel patterns since Americans began flocking to the then inexpensive delights of Europe in the postwar years. From the manicured streets of Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., to the beaches...

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