Who Travels

A seagoing people, U. S. citizens are the blood & bone of the ocean travel business. Last week the Department of State released Passport Bureau statistics showing what sort of person the average U. S. tourist is. He turned out to be a male resident of New York City, taking his wife and children to Western Europe to visit relatives. By occupation he might be almost anything from a clerk to a schoolteacher. Of the 139,590 men, women & children who went abroad in 1934 the largest single occupational group were housewives (16,314), the next biggest group people with no occupation (11,778). Some of the others :

Students 9,635

Teachers 6,917

Clerk-Secretaries 6,212

Technicians 5,481

Servants 5,048

Merchants 4,936

Executives 3,679

Engineers 2,803

Retired 2,637 Salesmen 2,614

Artists 2,235 Physicians 2,009

Clergymen 1,895

Lawyers 1,895

Bankers-Brokers 1,809

Farmer-Ranchers 1,809

Manufacturers 1,802

Nurses 1,487

Writers 1,324

Actors 1,211

Buyers 1,398

Missionaries 1,136

Scientists 887

Interior Decorators 342

Nearly one-third of last year's tourists came from New York City, the rest chiefly from New York State, New Jersey, California, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Illinois. Biggest stay-at-homes were New Mexicans, of whom only 75 went abroad.

Least popular destinations were Africa (1,850) and Australia (1,274).

Principal objects of travel were: Travel (41,491), Family Affairs (47,226), Education (5,488), Business (5,406), Employment (2,165), Health (1,745).

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