European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 6, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Resorts decadence Cen Omar Beach resort in puerto Rico the company is pursuing plans to build fantasy resorts on the Caribbean islands at Aruba is. John St. Croix and Barbados within live years. Hyall plans to have 26 fantasy resorts worldwide Hyall also has targeted Hawaii As a fantasy Deslin Alion. Although Hartley Leonard said he favors Australia and the deserts of the United states As prime fantasy centers Australia is like going Back in time to what Tho Best of America was he said. The Pacific rim is just perfect for Hyatt in Erna k Nal the subsidiary responsible Lor developing International properties for the company is building live Lenorls in Australia. Analysts said the willingness o Trie hotel Giani to push ahead with plans for now resort construction is a sign of Industry maturity and an indication that hoteliers Are having to Hustle More to generate Revenue. These lodging companies Are segmenting the Market by targeting a specific Point. Each Type has a different said Sarah Shecter. A lodging and Leisure analyst with Duff & Phelps inc. In Chicago. Growth expectations were lowered about 5 percent for last year for the lodging Industry stemming from the t986 Tan Reform act that reduced lax incentives Tor new construction and an oversupply of rooms in several markets. In general the growth of new rooms is slowing alter Trie tax Law changes Sheckter said. But we re looking at a slightly More to sirve Outlook Tor i to lodging moreover analysis Are unsure How Proli Lable Tho now fantasy resorts will be. I think they could Fly bul that Type of thing is going la be much More expensive to build Sheckler said it could be a draw but i can t say Dot Lawisa How they Wal a. Although fantasy resorts Are expensive to operate customers pay Tor their pleasure a typical room costs Aboul $220 a Day. Compared with about �90 Tor a conventional Hyatt room. The High prices arc not keeping curl moors away. Hyatt s hawaiian fantasy in Maui Tor example operates at about 90 percent occupancy. Lounge ear of ant Trak t burlier limited super liner. All aboard for the neurotic the phobic and the curious by Robert Reinhold new York times Price weekly Amtrak s Sunset limited Rolls across the desert Southwest with its human cargo a collection of the neurotic the phobic and the curious. The journey is like seeing America through a movie camera. Outside through he Lens of thick windows the Countryside slips by like an old Western. Fans Ida it la Tike an Agatha Christie movie an Odd collection of souls in a moving Community whose lives Are bonded in travel for a few Days. Ono almost expects at any moment to find a body in the Rabbit Warren of sleeping compartments. Oddly the Only Lalion picked up by a portable shortwave radio is radio Moscow. The Amtrak super liner called Iho limited loaves Houston or los Angeles at 11.05 saturday night. The next morning the passengers awake to the dry Dun Wamness of West Texas land of Ocotillo plants windmills prickly Pear Cactus and cowboys images Flash by the window the oaf is restaurant in Sanderson Marathon feed Supply in Marathon the magnificent courthouse in Maria a Cowboy in a Black hat posing by a Post near his White pickup truck. Nilde the train Over French Lossl in the dining car. Joan Trudgeon. A housewife from Indio. Calif., confesses her phobia about flying. I just Don t like Heights she says. She cancelled her airline reservations Home from Dallas where she had been visiting her daughter Afler seeing news reports about How Juls Are de iced in Winter. Peering out at the scrub and dry Creek Beds of fhe forbidding Chihuahua desert she says i be seen Deer and Hunters it s Nice to see for Sally Dobbertien a Spanish teacher from Michigan another height phobic Iho journey from Kalamazoo to Tucson is a 60-hour Odyssey. Shu left Home on Friday and her husband an aerospace Engineer who is fed up with trains slayed behind for two Days grabbed a flight and planned to pick her up at the train Lalion in Tucson sunday. He Hies for less than half what it costs her to take Chr train $276 round trip versus $5d3 i m almost mrs. Dobbertien says but we have an understanding Aboul it however she glumly admits when you Don t Fly you Don t go Many places i m nol anticipating Ever visiting every Lime Paul Yeomans a 27-year-old computer Programmer gets on an air plane to holds on As to Ruhr. As he can and gets Oil a nervous wreck. So this time with the understanding of a benevolent Boss at the Wall Street journal he is making a Cross continent business trip from Springfield mass., to san Francisco and Back 7.031 Miles by Tail. He has had enough of trains by the time the Sunset limited Rolls by Taco John s in darning Heads Inta Arizona. He does not know Why he is afraid of Hying. He gels nervous even picking friends up at the Airport. I be tried to think Bach bul there was nothing in my childhood he says maybe it was some television he has enrolled in a company sponsored program to cure his phobia knowing hat he will need to Fly to Advance professionally. The Day before lie was to leave mischievous colleagues left on his desk a news report about a recent Amtrak derailment in Delaware. Not everybody on this land ship is phobic. Many arc retired with Lime to Burn. Bob Pinchat a retired principal from san Diego is reliving his childhood Days when his father was a Railroad conductor in California the Asl time i was on a train was in 1940," he said. We would get on the train every Lime we had a Long weekend to visit it is a fairly tame journey compared to some Gail a Hunter has seen. The bouncy cheerful woman is on Aro Trak sleeping car attendant and Otter 10 years on the rails in these wheeled linear communities she has some stories to Tell. She recalls the War Veteran who began to Hal us rare Wilh flashbacks during the journey crouching Down in the lounge Carlo avoid incoming enemy fire. Hunter uttered to Load him Back to his seat. What Aboul the mines the Man asked Hunter look him by the hand and carefully led him through the mine Fields to his seat where she held h
