Santa Cruz Sentinel from Santa Cruz, California • Page 24

Sunday, Aug. 23, 1981 Santa Cruz Sentinel 23 Tourists Have Left Their Hearts Worth Packing For And More In San Francisco Wining And Dining Access to more hidden jungle sites will be made on four-wheel drive vehicles. The trip is planned in conjunction with a Cabrillo antliiophology course entitled "Prehistory of Meso America For information, get in touch with Edwards at 4254000. By Air And By Sea The deadline ior reservations is Friday Price is 13,150 and up. based on double occupancy From San Francisco For information, contact Ma Cuisine al 1 213-655-38M, or call your travel agent or Air France Down In Mexico The famous and noi so famous museums and archaeological monuments ol Mexico will be the destination of a stud tour to he ottered Cabrillo College Jan -1-28 The course is designed to give students an experience thai will illustrate the rich and exciting development oi Meso American culture, says Cabrillo instructor Hob Edwards, who will lead the trip.

Among the spots to be visited are Mexico City, the Valley ol Mexico, Puebla, Oaxaca, Chiapas and Yucatan Today's question where is the best place in the world to wine and dine'' The answer is France, insists Air Prance, and although some may claim there's a conflict of interest, who can argue'1 Air France is sponsoring a deluxe gourmet tour Oct 13-24 from Cannes to Les Baux. Lyon, Beaune and Pans The tour leader is Ma Cuisine cooking school Judy Gethers Highlights include cooking demonstrations and dining at Roger Verge's Moulin de Mougins and Paul Bocuse, private cooking session at La Varenne. plus additional gourmet meals at other two and three star restaurants, including Oustau de Baumaniere, L'Oasis, Orsi. Lameloise. La Ciboulette and Tour d'Argent There also will be wine-tastings and sightseeing.

Royal Viking Line is featuring two air sea programs tin Northern California passengers on its three Mexico sailings this fall The packages are eight and nine days in length you fly one way and cruise another between Acapulco and San Francisco Per-person fares are $1,320 ami up For information, see your travel agent or write Royal Viking Fine, One Fmbarcadero Center, San Francisco, Calif 94111 mi mi iMi i i in We pick four you up anywhere! comers I i s-xisjkv WKf, 41 70 gro; rd. copllolo colli. 95010 their hotel or finding out where they can go that is safe." says Police spokesman Henry Friedlander "Somewhere at the hotel desk they should be told, If you go out, let us make some recommendations'" Ironically, some hotels may be adding to the problem by handing out maps that inadvertently lead tourists into trouble. One map distorts the two-mile distance between Civic Center and Golden Gate Park, making it look like a 10-minute stroll Another map reduces the distance to four blocks In fact, it is 21 blocks and leads right through the Western Addition and the dangerous Fillmore District. Chet Rhodes, marketing director of the visitors bureau, says bureau maps now explain that they are drawn to scale and tourists should check with hotels or the bureau if they are planning a walk George Kirkland.

executive director of the bureau, admits that violence against tourists is bad for the city, which is trying to cope with a general slump in tourism, "I don't believe the violence has increased, but I think media coverage has, and as that happens, it's very bad for a destination," Kirkland says. "It think it's bound to hurt tourism unless we can show that we are doing something about it and that a lot of the attention it's getting is not justified," says Gilford News about tourist muggings is the last thing San Francisco needs now. Tourism, the city's biggest business, was off 6.9 percent last year due to inflation, labor problems and declining travel. Kirkland says the situation has improved, but foreign tourism is down 20 percent It isn't clear how much is due to an unfavorable exchange rate and how much to reports of violence. Gilford's council has been meeting with representatives from the Western Addition and plans' a "massive meeting" soon with community leaders and residents to examine the problem.

And police have "definitely escalated our manpower in the area," says Friedlander When officers see people who look like tourists or appear to be lost, he said, they offer directions and advice. 408 462 4414 behind Cindy's on 41st II San Jose Airport $12 Son Francisco Airport SU AIRPORT VAN service to and from SAN JOSE and SAN FRANCISCO Weekdays leaving Santa Cruz 6 am, 12 noon and 6 pm, returns by prior arrangement. SITWIAR By DAVID EINSTEIN SAN FRANCISCO (AP) The scene is all too familiar these days Foreign visitors out for a stroll wander into the wrong part of San Francisco and "German Tourists Attacked Youth Gang Robs Chinese Tourists." "British Woman Wounded." The dismaying headlines point up a problem which has seriously tarnished San Francisco's reputation as "Everyone's Favorite City." This month, for the first time, police have begun to break down statistics to show numbers of tourists who are victims of violent crimes in the city's Western Addition, a high crime area that lies in the path between downtown and Golden Gate Park. Their first sampling showed that 28 tourists, including 17 from foreign countries, were robbed in the first nine davs of August Tourists particularly foreign tourists are easy marks for the bands of youths who strike like urban pirates and disappear into the low-income housing projects in the area. "Criminals would rather rob a tourist." says Rotea Gilford of the Mayor's Criminal Justice Council "They know the victims are not going to be here to testify against them, and the chances of being prosecuted are less." In addition to being easy marks, tourists are lucrative targets.

One family of German tourists lost passports, airline tickets home, $150 in cash. $1,500 in travelers checks and a valuable camera. Sometimes, they lose more. A British woman needed surgery after being shot in the chest and left arm during a holdup. And earlier this month, an 18-year-old German girl was brutally beaten and raped by a young man who befriended her after she got off a bus.

Once tourists walk among the housing projects along Fulton and McAllister streets, "they're gone," says Deputy Police Chief James Ryan. "We've had a number of purse snatches and muggings, situations where our men on stakeout have seen the crime go down a quarter of a block away. It wasn't close enough; the crooks still got away." Officer Mike Farnham. who regularly patrols the area, says, "Going in there is like going into a war zone. And sending some innocent tourist in there thinking he's out for a walk to Golden Gate Park is like turning a kitten loose on the freeway." The problem, say police, is that visitors simply are not aware of the danger that lurks in the Western Addition.

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