RSKY
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We just got back a week or so ago from an eight day trip that took us thru parts of Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. This was a bucket list trip for my daughter's father in law who has been in bad health recently. Unfortunately he got sick and had to go home on the third day. But that isn't what I wanted to talk about.
We spent part of one day at Hoover Dam. Two days at the Grand Canyon. Three days in Yellowstone. And part of a miserable rainy day in the Grand Tetons before we headed back to Salt Lake City to fly out. At nearly all the stops the Americans were greatly outnumbered by foreign tourists. Especially those from the Far East. I'm not talking about a few at a time, they were unloading busses full of Oriental tourists. There were also several from Germany, the UK, and Scandinavia. The Europeans seemed to be in smaller groups or families. At one stop in Yellowstone I took pictures, with their cameras or phones, of six Japanese couples and one group of young women I think were Chinese. Daughter and son in law also took several pictures for couples at that stop and the SIL also lay down on the walkway and retrieved a hat for an older woman. With the exception of some Chinese in Las Vegas all we saw were polite and seemed to be having a good time. I hope Americans traveling to other countries act as well.
I don't know how much the Park Service does to promote Yellowstone and other national parks overseas but I hope they keep it up or increase the marketing effort. It has to be bringing in a lot of money to the US and can help to promote good will between countries.
RSKY
We spent part of one day at Hoover Dam. Two days at the Grand Canyon. Three days in Yellowstone. And part of a miserable rainy day in the Grand Tetons before we headed back to Salt Lake City to fly out. At nearly all the stops the Americans were greatly outnumbered by foreign tourists. Especially those from the Far East. I'm not talking about a few at a time, they were unloading busses full of Oriental tourists. There were also several from Germany, the UK, and Scandinavia. The Europeans seemed to be in smaller groups or families. At one stop in Yellowstone I took pictures, with their cameras or phones, of six Japanese couples and one group of young women I think were Chinese. Daughter and son in law also took several pictures for couples at that stop and the SIL also lay down on the walkway and retrieved a hat for an older woman. With the exception of some Chinese in Las Vegas all we saw were polite and seemed to be having a good time. I hope Americans traveling to other countries act as well.
I don't know how much the Park Service does to promote Yellowstone and other national parks overseas but I hope they keep it up or increase the marketing effort. It has to be bringing in a lot of money to the US and can help to promote good will between countries.
RSKY