Micronesia Handbook: Guide to the Caroline£¬ Gilbert£¬ Mariana£¬ and Marshall Islands

ISBN: 9780918373809

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PREFACE
TOURISM IN MICRONESIA
Though Micrenes~a has yet to be fuLLy \"d~s- mes as many as Tahiti. Salpan??? with much
cove ed\" by the p~moters of packaged con- bette beaches than Guam and no militarf
sumer tourism??? Guam and Saipan already bases??? isn tfarbehind OnGuamtoursmha~
gure alongs de such fleshpots as BaLi??? Thai su passed military spending as a source 01
and??? and Hawaii in the tourism markets of income for theterritoryandnowtourismeve~
Tokyo Nagoya??? and Osaka. Belau ala hot con c s with military use--the govemmeal
new destination about to be opened to Japo- o Guam is demanding that more of the 3O%
nese mass tourism and Pohnpei already has of the s and s surface presently held by the
a big new Japanese scuba-diving operation military be released for airport expansion and
that needs only a ~uple of luxury hotels other civilian use.
nearby to become really profitable. On Guam the big hotels have Long be~
A h s ac ivity dates back to 1962 when es cnd o the Tureen Bay strip but
the U S. government lifted its requirement of three additional h[gh-dse hotels presently un-
a security clearance to visit Microneala Pan der cons uc ion at Tumon a Holiday Inn??? a
Americ~ AJ~ays inaugurated d~rect flights Hyatt Regency??? and a Hotel Nikko) hotel de*
om Tokyo to Guam in 1967??? the same year velopment has been pushed closer to down.
Con6nental Airlines got together wth local town Agana. The 4O3-room Palace Hot~
business interests to create a new joint yen- opened on Oca Point in 1991??? just acm~
u e??? Continental Air Micronesia??? which be Agana Bay from the city??? and the soaring
gan sew ce from HonoLulu to Salpan in 1968 OnwardAganaBeachHotalisgo~ng~pne~\"
Airstrips were gradually upgraded in all the by. All these hotels would close wdhin awesk
gstrct~nersoftheoldTrustTerrdoryofthe ifJapanesetou companiesstsppodsendi~
Pac c slandsandbylg76Air M~keslsalnd their packaged pLaneloeds south
Hopper was calling at Mature??? Kwajalein??? TheJspaneseareblgongolfandtherear~
Pohedal and Chuuk (Truk} between Hone- new a half dozen sprawling golf coupes 0~
Lulu and Guam; feeder se~ces ew on o 54t-square-km Guam. Qalte achunkofS~\"
Sa pan??? Yap??? and Koror. Kosrae only became pan s 123 square km is eaten up by its three
partof Continental swnddin1986whenajet courses and little 85 square-km Retail
runway was dredged up from the hagoon threatened by at least two projected
TO ac i ate tourist movements on its ser- cou ses including one with 54 holes! The~
vces ConSnental built the first big hotels in acilit]es are too expensive for most k
Micrenesia??? the Trek Cenbnental (1970??? the golfers and when they re combined w th
Guam Hilton (1970)??? Koror s Hotel Nikko military resewations??? housing develedmel
(1971) and he Salpan Hyatt Regency shoppng malls roads parking areas??? ~t
(974). For vadous reasons Majuro??? Pohnpal??? moun ainous island interiors??? there isn t al
and Yap never got the big hotels originally o ~and left over Things are really heating~
planned for them and there are stilk no alrge on Salpan and Guam??? wdh day-long trSf~
n e na ional tourist resorts on those islands??? ares along he west coast highways el bo~
q s not widely known that Guam s now he islands. The popala ion of Salpon deul~ed
second-most-important tourist destinaedn in the g7Os and again in the lg80s.
the Pacific islands (after Hawaii)??? with three When the MarLanas Covenant was s]gn~
times as manytourists ayear as Fijiand five by President Ford in 1976 a grealsion wa