EXTRACT FROM LETTER
AN AMERICAN ON BRITISH HOLIDAY RESORTS :—Mr. Lyman D. Davis, Chairman Foreign Relations Committee, Anglo. American Hotel Association (N.Y.C.), writes :—So many attacks have appeared recently upon British holiday resorts, and upon the supposed superiority of French and Italian travel facilities, that on the eve of my departure to America your readers may be interested to hear the point of view of an American whose business has been for many years past connected with a number of the best known pleasure resorts in Europe and America. These attacks have not been confined to seaside resorts, but applied also to all British inland resorts and spas, and they profess to prove that England and Scotland are the third-rate pleasure resorts of Europe and that there is hardly a decent hotel or restaurant, a cheap fare, or a comfort- able railway journey in the United Kingdom. The facilities provided by the hotels and railway companies, town for town, village for village, are more complete and incomparably better and safer in Britain than in any other part of Europe. Not only do the resorts of your country have far more and far finer and better organized tennis and golf facilities than any resorts on the Continent, but your hotels are more modern and incomparably better equipped, and there are more of them than in any other two countries in Europe put together. Don't let anyone in England and Scotland be under any delu- sion. You possess by far the pleasantest and most comfortable resorts in Europe.
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