Abstract
$12,758,o00. A poll of the travel agencies revealed that 25% should be added to care for tips, spending money, and the like. When this $3,190,000 is added, the second final figure amounts to $15,948,000. The third and last job is to get a figure for foreign travel. Air travelers to foreign destinations spent $6,9oo,ooo in 1938.11 The one company that completely dominates the field indicates that 40% of this amount represents expenditures of vacation travelers$2,760,000.12 Cruise travelers to foreign points spent $29,000,000, all of which is charged up to vacation travel.13 All other travelers spent $5o8,00,00ooo in trips to foreign areas.' A study of the reasons given he D partment of Sta e for this travel shows that 85% may be designated vacation travel.16 This amounts to $431,885,000. The three fo eign items, then, are:
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