TRAVEL STAMPS FOR TOURISTS
Collecting travel-stamps is the latest craze of the tourist on tho Continent and overseas. The practice was introduced in Switzerland, and nowhotelkeepers and transport companies all over the world supply appropriate stamps to stick in albums which are like postage 6tamp albums.
A tourist who arrives in Switzerland, Italy, Holland, Belgium, or elsewhere asks for the travelling stamp of the hotel he stays in before passing on ' to the next town on his itinerary. At the end of his tour he can produce a book showing pictorially where he has bet-n and where he has stayed. Hotel-keepers say that a tourist cannot obtain the labels of an hotel unless he has stayed in it. The albums contain spaces for stamps of steamship lines, railway companies, air lines and hotels.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12609, 20 November 1926, Page 19
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133TRAVEL STAMPS FOR TOURISTS New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12609, 20 November 1926, Page 19
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