WINTER TOURS ABROAD.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2452, 4 May 1915, Page 3

WINTER TOURS ABROAD.

. WHEN THE BLUE PACIFIC CALLS. Ottfl thing: the war did very effectively for tourists and travellers—it stopped all European tours for a lons time to come. Norway. Switzerland, and Holland, to name three of the tourists' favourite "stamping grounds." lost all their yearly visitors at one fell fwoop. Long and bitter, too, was the complaining in Italy and the Mediterranean resorts, where the volume of tourist traffic shrank to about one-tenth its normal size. As for the countries actually at war, there was an enormous exodus from them. Who wanted to stop in < Germany,'for instance? And when Belgium was over-run it is doubtful wliether one foreign tourist remained in that once-smilinir land. Great, Britain and Ireland and the south-western corner of France; Snain, Portugal, and the Pyrenees, secured a certain portion of tlieir annual pleasure-seekers, but the countries that most profiled by the diversion of the world's great yearly trek to and through Europe, were, naturally, just those countries furthest removed from the storm centres. As far as New Zealand is concernedami it must not be forgotten that here' we are rapidly acquiring pleasant and profitable travel habit—those who usually head for the Homeland aTe looking to InBurma, Japan, and their own glorious Pacific, to provide them with that change which is a rest, and that rest which, often, is such a change. People on business bent, of course, simply have to go Londonwnrds, but those who intend to spend their holidays abroad are taking the world by easy stages in quite other directions.

Finding that the altered times need altered conditions, Messrs. Burns, Philn, of 330 Lambton Quay, the well-known Tour nti(l Travel Agents, who. by the way. have just been appointed as New South Wales Government _ Agents in New Zealand, set about planning a series of tours for the .coming winter, a series as notable for its completeness as for its excellent varietv and moderate tariff. These are ten (10) tours listed in the preliminary notioe sent out by tho Company, and each of the ten is explained, in detail, on separate and convincing leaflets, which can be had on application. The tonrs, which will commence with one to Papua and T?abaul, etc.. on the Mil April, include ,T«va. and Singapore, China, .Tapan. Tudin. Burma, the Straits Settlements. .Tava, the Solomon Islands, the Fiji Group, lord Howe and Norfolk Tslonds. the orstwhile German possessions (now guarded by our own forces), and a Mierial "AH-roum! Australian Tour," tho first ever planned out. All purses have been consulted, as 'a c'anco at the fares charred will show. These Intter range from JCI2 10s. to j£ls7 10s., and flip duration of the tours Tuns from about three weeks to about three ninths. The sums charged include travelling tickets, and hotel accommodation, motors, etc., etc.—in fact, all expenses except. of course, those which are purely personal expenses. All of oui' readers who may bo contemi)lat;ng a bin, cannot do batter than nnolv for all infonnntion required from Hie Tour and Travel Department of Burns, Ph'ln anil Comoanv. 330 Lamb!«'i Qiin.v. Wpllinirtni. char™ of any kind is iiuide by the firm for itineraries n"d s"rvires in connection with anv tour wished for. (Published by arrangement.)