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Show Bicentennial Travel Makes Moab World's Melting Pot America's bicentennial is attracting a good number of visitors to the shores of the United States, and Moab's Canyonlands area is getting its share of visitors. According to Kay Nelson, a secretary at the Moab Visitor's Center, there were 55 families from foreign countries who signed the center's visitor register in July alone. About 20 families from Europe visited Moab in June, and already in August, she said, visitors from Belgium, France and Germany have represented represen-ted another 15 families. Why are they here, and where are they coming from? Most say they are taking advantage of special low fare bicentennial travel packages offered by travel agencies. Many, however, are coming on their own. The largest representative repre-sentative group has been from France, but Germany and Canada rank second and third in that order. Other visiting families are coming from Belgium, Thailand, England, Switzerland, Holland, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Nor-way, Denmark, Austria, Australia, Aus-tralia, Israel, New Zealand and Italy. Miss Nelson said the language lang-uage barrier has posed a problem in some cases, but most generally the foreign visitors have enough knowledge knowl-edge of the English language to communicate with center personnel. "They're so excited ex-cited about their visit and so patient with us, we've just simply developed a warm feeling about them. I hope they keep coming back", she concluded. |