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- From: paul.graveline@travel.com (Paul Graveline)
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- Subject: CARIBBEAN TRAVEL ROUNDUP2
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- Date: 31 Dec 92 01:03:00 GMT
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- Organization: Travel Online / St. Louis Online - St. Louis, MO
- Reply-To: paul.graveline@travel.com (Paul Graveline)
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- either on a regular basis or from time to time. Without all your
- great impressions, comments and insights, there certainly would be
- no CTR. As mentioned in the quote above, I had hoped that his
- venture world evolved into a vehicle for sharing information about
- Caribbean travel. Thanks to you it has.
-
- Paul Graveline
- Editor
- 28 Dec. 1992
-
- 2/ CARIBBEAN NEWS FOR JANUARY 1993
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- Antigua
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- There have been environmental protests against the construction by
- an Italian company to the Coconut Hall and Marshall Hall Resort
- developments. These are two new projects which opponents claim will
- have a detrimental effect on the Antiguan environment. The
- Environmental Awareness Coalition has sponsored protests including a
- human chain to prevent further construction which they feel will
- damage the mangrove trees and the fishing industry of the island.
- They also allege that the authorization for the projects did not
- follow proper procedure.(BBC)
-
- Bonaire
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- Transworld Radio Bonaire has announced that as of January 1 they are
- reducing their broadcast schedule on 800 kHz. A.M. and on their
- shortwave frequencies. Furthermore, as of July 1, 1993, TWR will
- terminate transmission on shortwave altogether. At that time they
- will be inaugurating a satellite service to cover the Central and
- South American regions. A.M. radio broadcast transmission will
- continue for the foreseeable future. (Chuck Roswell, TWR)
-
- Caribbean Curriculum
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- Professor Charles Hetzel of Fitchburg State College in Massachusetts
- has developed a curriculum devoted entirely to Caribbean culture and
- issues. According to the literature supplied to the CTR, "The focus
- of this program is on the cultural, social, political and economic
- history of the Caribbean. Reggae, Calypso, salsa, unique language
- structures, art and literature of various island authors provide an
- overview of the culture".
-
- As part of this year's course, a week will be spent on St. Kitts-
- Nevis in April. Professor Hetzel has produced a complete curriculum
- devoted to the Caribbean and is willing to share it with other
- educators or interested parties. You can contact him through the
- Education Department of Fitchburg State College, 160 Pearl St.,
- Fitchburg, MA 01420-2697 or at 508-342-2703.
-
- Future Arrives Early!
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- Getting information about the Caribbean from overworked and
- underpaid travel agents struggling to keep up with airline price
- wars can be frustrating. Well, there seems to be some new
- alternatives to consulting these these harried people. The first is
- the present way you are getting this information, via an electronic
- information service and the second is the growing popularity of
- consumer travel shows where prospective travellers can visit
- exhibits and booths manned by proprietors and suppliers of travel
- services. One of these travel extravaganzas, Travel World, is being
- held at Boston's Bayside Exposition Center from 15-17 January, 1993
- and is open to the public. Pam Pejko, Sales and Promotion Manager
- for the Trans National Travel sponsored Vacation World show, told
- the CTR that over 23,000 people attended last year's event and
- possibly 30,000 will be drawn this year. Pam is also working on
- similar travel shows taking place in Atlanta (April 15-17) and
- Philadelphia (Oct. 14-17,1993).
-
- In your editor's opinion, these two developments mark a significant
- change in the way prospective visitors can obtain information about
- possible destinations. A recent article in the World Future
- Society's magazine, "The Futurist", dealt with just this subject.
- Therefore, I will be devoting a commentary to the shifting
- modalities of accessing travel information in the February CTR.
- Barring a southern New England blizzard ( which can't be
- discounted), I'll attend the Boston Travel World show and report
- back next month on my impressions. In addition I'll be adding some
- comments about the future of accessing travel related information.
-
- 3/ ISLAND PROFILE SABA BY LAN SLUDER
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- The second in a continuing series of island profiles concentrates on
- Saba. They are prepared by our regular correspondent Lan Sluder and
- are copyrighted by him and used here with is permission.
-
- THUMBNAIL SKETCH: Saba is unique. It's a five-square mile green
- gumdrop, so steep it makes San Francisco look flat as a pancake,
- just 20 minutes by air from St. Maarten but a million miles away
- from its sister Dutch islands clothing optional beaches and cruise
- ship shoppers. Saba has only 50 hotels rooms (but more unfortunately
- are a-building) and gets an average of only about 65 tourists a day.
- There are no real beaches or gourmet restaurants. What it does have
- (continued)
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