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ca : Castlégar News October 23, 1985 TRAVEL
RESTORING OLD HAVANA ae

Cuba chases tourists

By ELOY AGUILAR
HAVANA (AP) — In hopes of attracting more tourists,
the Cuba government is restoring Old’ Havana, a
tre area of ying an

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prefer payment in Hong Kong dollars. It is illegal, but
foreign currency changes’ hands freely here.

City planner Zhu Bingheng said vehicle numbers
have increased tenfold over the last few years. The city
has built seven overpasses and five pedestrian bridge
crossings but is still struggling to control traffic flow._.

“The long-term plan is an underground railway,” said
“Zhu. “There is already an underground system of bomb
shelters we could use.”

Canton youth listen avidly to music. The British rock

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But ina city where housing is a serious roblea, most of
the buildings in the old quarter had been taken over by
squatter families even before the revolution that brought

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historic buildings. :
Tourism’ is now: bringing $100 million a year- to‘the

€aribbean island. nation. Hotels previously uscd by the:

armed forced are being turned over to tourism.

Old Havana’s foundation .dates back to 1519 ‘and
colonization by Spain. Its small main plaza is surrounded by
a fortress and the old Home of the Captain-Generals. They
are colonial constructions of baroque architecture with
patios and the traditional “aljibe” = —
tile-covered water well.

Groups of European tourists troop through museums
and plazas in the restored area where streets are still being
dug up to replace cobblestones. Most of the area is now a
pedestrian zone. i

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Fidel Castro to power in 1959.
RELOCATE SOME

Leandro Romero, “a researcher. for the- National
Museum, one of ‘the’ organizations working on the
restoration, said many of the families, some of whom live in
single rooms, wiJl have to be relocated so that those who
stay can have a livable space.

A four-storey building that housed a girls’ school in the
pre-revolutionary days later became a tenement occupied by
16 families. It is now almost restored,.and only four families
live there.

“Those who live+in the | buildings are given the option to
buy the home,” Romero said. Buying a home is a new
concept in Castro's Cuba, permitted by a law passed only
recently.

Live-in owners keep their houses in better condition,
Romero said as he pointed to the many flower pots and
hanging plants on the balconies.

The restoration! includes touches from Spain's colonial
days in the Caribbean. The place where the first barber shop
was set up has been restored; it is again a barber shop with
the official diploma of the original barber on the wall.

There is also a replica of the first pharmacy.

BECOME MUSEUMS

Many of the buildings are being turned into museums or
cultural exhibits of different countries friendly to Cuba.

The restoration, Romero said, is financed by the Cuban
government and isin its second five-year-plan. Forty-one
buildings have been restored.

“It is difficult,” said Romero, noting the country's
economic problems. “There are times when something is
delayed because we lack simple things like nails or paint. But
we all love Old Havana.

“We want to give a new sense to the old part of Havana.

yy ANDREW BROW!
CANTON, CHINA (REUTER) ee historically’
as the southern gateway to-China, Canton is booming as
the country swings open its doors to forei nm businessmen
and travellers.

+ A 45-minute plane hop from Hong Kong; the city
accepts capitalist decadence ‘as easily as it attracts
foreign investment in modern hotels and factories.

No industry in Canton is growing like tourism. The
city has 11,000 hotel’ rooms and officials say the average
occupancy rate is 80-90 per cent. The best and biggest.are
joint ventures with Hong Kong firms.

The Garden Hotel, the biggest hotel in China, has
just opened. It expects about 70 per cent of its 1,000
rooms and 720 apartments will eventually be filled by
foreign corporate clients.

‘he waitresses at the hotel wear black bow-ties and
red jackets.

“They were chosen for appearance,” said manager
Evan Pavlakis. One of the women at the front desk of the
rival White Swan Hotel is this year's Miss Canton beauty
pageant queen.

IT’S EFFICIENT

For foreign businessmen, exhausted by the rigors of
operating elsewhere in China,’ Canton is an oasis of
efficiency and comfort. Phones work. Hotel booking is
computerized. At bars, they even chill the beer glasses.

If Canton does have a problem, it is the traffic jams
that paralyse its downtown.

At rush hour, Liberation Road, the main artery
cutting through the city, is packed with buses, trucks,
motorbikes and taxis. Canton has a fleet of 6,000
gleaming taxis that cruise the streets night and day.

In Peking and Shanghai, travel by taxi requires
endless waiting and filling out forms. Taxis in Canton

duo Wham! recently played in Canton. In taxis, Taiwan
love songs blare on stereo cassette recorders.

“Why should I want to live in, Hong Kong? asked the
boat boy on the jet catamaran that plies the Pearl River
route to the British territory. “It’s just like Cantdn.”

In the disco of the luxury China Hotel, local girls in
tight-jeans and T-shirts lounge around tables sipping
beer. Songs like Girls Just Want to Have Fun and Like a
Virgin! bringthem on to the dance floor.

EXPLOIT TIES

It would be hard to find a Canton family that has no
relatives in Hong Kong and the association is exploited
for all it is worth.

“Hong .Kong finance plays an important role in
Canton's economy and a lot of trade goes through its
banks,

In imperial times, China was closed to the world
except for Canton, which was the country’s only channel
for trade.

British opium merchants who forced open the
Chinese market set up warehouses outside the city when
they came in the last century.

“Itis still the ideal jumping-off point for China,” said
leading economist Zhu Geng.

Economic officials here said that half of all Hong
Kong's businessmen are originally from Canton. They are
now busy investing in factories in their home city to take
advantage of cheap labor.

Signs of the Hong Kong connection are everywhere.
Shops are packed with radios, cassette players, watches,
televisions and motorbikes — all priced in foreign
currency.

The T-shirt of a girl wandering down Liberation

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Liza Minnelli makes her debut in a TV

drama when sh
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screech to a half at the wave of a hand and the drivers Road reads: “I love Hong Kong.”

We do not want a Hollywood-type appearance, but a city
that lives in accord with its inhabitants.
The Cuban government is doing other things to increase
tourism to the island. Jesus Jimenez Escobar, vice-president
-of the Tourism Institute, said 206,000 tourists came to Cuba
in 1984 and that ‘number is expected to increase by 25 per
cent this year. Of those who came last year, 168,000 were
from western countries, mainly Canada, Italy, Mexico and
Spain. :
The government is planning to build 5,000 new hotel
rooms in the next two to five years and is making agree-
ments with Spanish i ii in the
tourism industry and to improve services.

Supplement to the Castlegar News
of Wednesday, October 23, 1985

lent revenwe. Priced for

| Cast]

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‘Don't drink the water’

By DAVID GERSOVITZ
53 The Canadian Press
It may have such exotic. names as tourista or
, but there is nothing like a case of
the runs to spoil a ‘vacation.

Though usually associated with travel to tropical
climes, tourista may strike wherever disruptive bacteria
are lurking to be consumed in food or drink.

The traditional advice to tourists travelling to the
Caribbean or Central and South America has always
been: don’t drink the water. That still applies.

below assessment,: Always occupied,

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‘on beautiful Riverside Creve. $65,

Although the sugar-and-salt beverage is internation-
ally known for treating the often fatal dehydration caused
by acute diarrhea, most North Americans don't know
about it.

International aid organizations such as the United
Natio Children’s Fund’ distribute packets of the
ingredients to mothers of young sufferers in developing

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‘The recipe, writes Viens, is simple: mix a teaspoon of

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But even if you're careful and don't eat raw
vegetables and fruits that may have been washed in
untreated water, you can still pick up amasty bacteria —
and diarrhea.

Before heading for the sun, many tourists ask their
doctors to prescribe something for a. possible attack;
other travellers swear by non-| prescription medications.

But these only mpt -
they're not a cure. f

Dr. Pierre Viens of Montreal’ ve Hotel-Dieu Hospital, ~
author of a pamp! for t 's, says there

salt and eight teaspoons of sugar with the juice of one
orange or lemon in 32 ounces (909 millilitres) of potable
water — but not mineral water.

Add half a teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda if
available.

Adults should drink 12 ounces (about 340 millilitres)
of the preparation after each bout of diarrhea, ‘children
half that amount. Babies might not drink the solution
because of the taste, Viens says. If so, try a flat soft.drink,
especially a cola. Give them as much as they'll drink.

LAST 24 hours

is an effective treatment for tourista that’s cheap and
easy to prepare.

Tourista is an irritation of the small. intestine,
producing frequent bouts of diarrhea but little if any

“Tourista treated like that should rarely last more
than 24 hours,” writes Viens. “And this procedure helps
with all kinds of diarrhea, even those accompanied by-a
fever.”

If the diarrhea persists for a few days, it makes good
sense to see a doctor. One per cent of diarrhea cases are
caused by more dangerous bacteria.

When diarrhea attacks are frequent, writes Viens,
say 10 to 20 times a day, accompanied by a temperature
of 38.5 degrees or higher and a general feeling of fatique,
a traveller should seek medical attention, preferably in a
well-equipped hospital.

TORY 735

UNITED CHURCH
OF CANADA

2264-6th Ave.

1% Blocks South of
Community Complex
9:45 a.m. — Singing

10a.m. — Worship

and Sunday School
Robson: Ist Sun., 7 p.m.
3rd Sunday, 10.a.m.
Rev. Ted Bristow
365-8337 or 365-7814

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--The recipe is contained in his Voyager en sante sous

les tropiques (Travelling in Good Health in the Tropics),

published in French by the Quebec federation of general

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month. (9 one-year Tease.
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Saturday 7 p.m.
Sunday 8 and I1.a.m.

6:30 p.m.
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Study & Prayer —7 p.m.
Church 365-3430
Pastor 365-2808

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Youth
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