Show - - 1 F4 Me Salt Lake Tribune Travel notes: Sailing down the Danube with Domingo A seven-nigh- Danube River Mozart sched- t Cruise on the ms uled for May 15 will feature performances by the Philadelphia Philharmonic Orchestra as well as Placid() Domingo The trip is priced at $5653 not including air fare The tour takes in Prague Me lk Bratislava Budapest and Vienna For more information contact Danube Cruises Austria 5250 W Century Blvd Suite 302 Los Angeles Ca 90045 (14100- 999-022- o I There is now a direct flight every Monday to Mazatlan Mexico from Salt Lake City offered by Morris Air Service Charter packages begin at $379 for a week Contact Morris for more Hotels has Inter-Continent- formally opened Moscow's legendary Hotel Metropol after a r refurbish$170 million ment A joint venture between VAO (Russia) and Intourist UK Ltd the lucury first hotel is Russian property and the first in Moscow to be operated by an international hotel company five-yea- 403-roo- m In the winter of 1941 two Jackson Hole ranchers challenged each other to a duel — a chariot race down the main street of town A Jackson Hole winter tradition was born This year's annual Shriner's Cutter Races scheduled for weekend of Feb 15 and feature over 40 pairs of teams thundering will 16 two-hor- se head-tohea- down a snow-covere- d d Trails Illustrated has released a set of five maps covering Yellowstone National Park including four new maps that each cover a quarter of the park plus several miles of the surrounding area The waterproof maps are tearproof 100 percent plastic and fold to 4x7 inches The 1992 edition of The Dude Ranchers MagazineDirectory describes 101 dude ranches in 11 western states all members of the Dude Ranchers Assn Send $3 to The Dude Ranchers Association PO Box G471 LaPorte Co 80535 for the directory 35-pag- e Cunard ships will call at Odessa and Yalta Ukraine on the Black Sea: St Petersburg Russia and Tallinn Estonia both on the Baltic Sea Vistafjord Cunard Princess and both Sea Goddess I and II all will offer glimpses into the rapidly changing infrastructures of these emerging societies For more information contact a travel agent or Cunard at "Crow Indian Ledger Draw- CENTRAL CITY Colo — As hope" says Berkowitz down-at-th- high-lev- through a monthly newsletter entitled International Employment Hotline The Hotline serves as a bulletin board where employers post their current overseas personnel requirements explained editor Will Cantrell Job openings ate listed under country of assignment with job title description and employer For more information write to International Employment Hotline PO Box 3030 Oakton Va 22124 :Travel Corporation of America is presenting its Tours by Private Jet for 1992 Known as the ultimate journey in luxury travel the Private Jet Around the World tour will depart Miami on Oct 3 It will stop in such places as Argentina the Falkland Islands Easter Island Fiji Hong Kong China India Kenya Egypt and Spain Travcoa provides all the comfOrts and personal service of an exclusive private club The American Trans Air aircraft has been reconfigured with all first class re By is -- INT1 LUIRCIEY biIU Or cot ' -- tourist —Prices have actually gotten lower" said Greg Moates the guldt it the Lost Gold Mine in Central City "The Teller House has these buffets now all you can 'eat for $685 There was nothing 'like that before gambling" ' I visited the three towns after a weekend in Las Vegas The trasts were dramatic These are tiny towns with narrow and winding streets and ry buildings many in disrepair Outdoor neon lighting is den inside neon lighting must be feet from the street by law While Las Vegas casinos will put up just about anything to catch your eye — waterfalls volcanoes giant Bavarian castles — ' ho building in these Colorado towns is permitted to change in any 'direction but reverse The goal is to use gambling revenues : forbid-anoth- - tii 1 i ATI'I ' but there the differences end Cripple Creek is hard to get to at the end of a long and tortuous road and its pool of gamblers is drawn from Colorado Springs a very popular resort town and upscale retirement mecca Its gamblers are much older on the average than those in Central City-Blac- City and Black Hawk Central City's gambling operations are the slickest of the three Security people open the doors at the Swiss-ru- n Teller House s are everywhere Casinos across the street handle the overflow crowds Ice cream and candy stores nearby are thriving and the inn a few yards away is usually fully booked k foot-pumpe- money-changer- hand-printe- d d half-hou- In Black Hawk gambling is doing very well and the trickle-dow- n to other businesses has begun though only on the low end At the Coyote Inn "business has picked up on $48-a-nig- weekends" manager Camille Gersic said Both bars are busy Will the Colorado plan succeed in restoring fortune to these three depressed Colorado towns? Rhonda Kritner who worked in restoring the (Unsinkable) Molly Brown House in Denver said "There are supposedly enough safeguards to make sure they do it right There's no question that they need the money The Opera House in particular needs a lot of work" And without gambling? "In 10 more years we would have become a ghost town" said Greg Moates the guide at the Lost Gold Mine in Central City In the future for Colorado gambling towns are packages for Central City and Black Hawk and packages for Cripple Creek The Central City and Black Hawk packages would be linked to As- Peak is well worth a stopover The Garden of the Gods is here a park containing massive formations of red sandstone Easter sunrise services are held here every year The Old Colorado City Historic District in the heart of town looks much like the gambling towns would like to The Western Museum of Mining and Industry displaying operating machinery used in early gold and silver mines with instructions and demonstrations is open through the winter In the summer you can drive to the top of Pikes Peak Likewise in the summer the opera season begins in Central City and Cripple Creek puts on a very popular melodrama The Cripple Creek and Victor Narrow Gauge Railroad opens on Memorial Day for rides through four miles of abandoned mines Will these three old mining towns bring in the big tourist bucks? Because of their betting policies and the fact that no more than 35 percent of any establishment's space can be devoted to gambling so we are probably not looking at three little Las Vegases here But we won't know until the spring thaw g te pen Vail Breckenridge and Copper Mountain and the Cripple Creek packages would be linked to Colorado Springs Colorado Springs is the site of the luxury Broadmoor resort complex with nine dining rooms and three golf courses The Broadmoor is on nearly everyone's list of the 10 best resorts in America Colorado Springs at the foot of Pikes low-stak- 18-ho- le 4PPIENSMNERIBEEMIStVEl 5i1 t wilt ' 3 Manses-On- Is 11 ai space TO day oross Cr MESA PAGEANT & TIMM TOUR Awls 1341 e Emma DEEP SOUTH HERITAGE TOUR Apra 76 May 7 lectudee WM THE Er" 04 Las Ir Kennedy Sacco Canter Savannah Tanta teashvele Gone gent Antebellum Men Ond MOMI10416 Veins Mond Temples Mond it h t he G r a nd w Canyon lion an 5196" 4 ghostly Cmi wee embehesete ram Onecins swam and mach cruise I PISTIYM GHAT SAM GiTA WAY May iSiii7 beery Me Itiundonnb WA NIAGARA la Veal COW laires TOOLS minClunnC ISOPID and thowegantGoviroalt0i TEL HOUMA) iketthi dant MP ItSavAt me Wasiteet nivelVo401M 4il TOURS: RenoTahoe Portland Rose Festival Calgary Stampede ATOM° - A7' :! tyt' - ' - r? 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vanced decay When Deadwood legalized gambling on Nov 1989 backers of the plan calcu- lated that $4 million a year would be wagered Now two years later $565 million has been bet And Main Street will soon be completely restored "Among What's There -" - - pie Creek the pot at the polt(-table at Johnny Nolon's Salooa has grown to $120 But across the street the Imperial Hotel is closing its doors for the winter Gambling was introduced Oct 1 in these three heels Wild West towns made le- gal in a statewide referendum last year Under the law 28 peso-cent of the state and local taxes collected from gambling will be used for historical preservation The law allows slot machines and poker with a maxi- mum $5 bet The plan to legalize gambling was based on the phenome- nal success of Deadwood SD- historic mining town in d display at the Nicolaysen Art Museum Casper Wyoming Feb 8 to April 8 The exhibit is part of the observation of the Quincentenniary of Christopher Columbus' arrival on the American continent The ledger drawings contain accounts of the lives of the Crow Indians and how the introduction of a new culture influenced them on contact between native populations and Europeans will be on Denver t7IAL Selleck look-alik- e "that the cast- no will help the restaurant" But at dinner that night 22 of 26 bles are empty Five hours to the south in Crip:' k h 1:1 half-hou- The days when a little B&B meant rest and relaxation are long gone With the popularity of thrill sports like hang gliding rock climbing and white water rafting at an all time high 118L11 has taken on an entirely new meaning Today UR means risk and recreation According to the National Sporting Goods Assn Americans adventure are taking up high-rissports at a dramatic rate For those ready to embrace the new definition of MR TAG Heuer Switzerland's leading manufacturer of professional sports watches has created the PasSbooklet port a passport-sizewhich offers information on the best places in the world to go for the '90s style MR It contains useful information on where to go for the best scuba diving white water rafting mountain biking rock climbing hang gliding paragliding sky diving and skiing For a free copy of PasSport write to TAG Heuer PasSport 35 East 21st St 4th floor New York NY Washington DC 20037 yautrom the snow whips through the twisting streets of this born- again Rocky Mountain gold min- ing town hundreds of twentyso- methings have lined up to play slot machines in the Teller House No seats remain at r the bar and there's a wait for the dining room A mile down the road in Black Hawk a blackjack dealer named Andrew Berkowitz dashes to- ward Otto's Casino beside the Black Forest Inn "It is our Creative Leisure International pioneer in customized vacations at private villas resorts and condominiums has added St Thomas in the Virgin Islands to its portfolio Founded in 1968 Creative Leisure customizes vacations to Hawaii Mexico and Europe For more information contact a travel agent or Creative Leisure International at 951 Transport Way Petaluma Ca 94954 Twenty-Fourt- Barry Zwick IN ES LOS ANGELES 9 ings" and art exhibit that focuses 36-da- By dining seats for 84 passengers 14 cabin attendants and a flight crew of five Gourment dining and vintage wines are standard The full tour is offered at a cost of $43000 per person based on double occupancy For those with less time at their disposal two shorter itineraries are possible: Buenos Aires to Hong Kong: 17 at $22500 per perdays Oct son double occupancy: and Hong Kong to Tenerife: 24 days Oct 15- Nov 7 at $29500 per person double occupancy All three tours include private limousine transfers between the clients' home and the airport with first class air tickets to the gateway cities Luxury hotels (and best available accommodations in remote areas) are provided throughout the tour With the exception of the customary gratuity to the tour escort all gratuities are included as well as the costs of visas port and airport taxes All arrangements have been finely tuned by travel specialists to provide the ultimate journey For information contact a travel agent or TRAVCOA at 10010 Sunday January 26 1992 Colorado mining towns bet on gambling casinos quarter-- track The Jackson Hole Shrine Club presents the races that raise money for the Salt Lake City Intermountain Shriners Hospital mile TRAVEL lif:' :1':ik'1('': - 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