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volves travel facilities, hotels, and a tourist agency to arrange the 

 trips. Aeroflot, Soviet hotels, and lntourist are not the greatest stimu- 

 lants to tourism; such comparable Western concerns as Pan American 

 Airlines, Holiday Inn, and Cooks, Ltd. might be more conducive to 

 foreign travel in the Soviet Union. The opening of direct Pan Am 

 flights to Moscow and the Soviet agreement in principle with Occi- 

 dental Petroleum Corporation to build a Holiday Inn facility suggest 

 that this sort of development is possible. The easing of Soviet restric- 

 tion on internal travel, the availability of tourist credit facilities such 

 as American Express, and improved facilities for foreign sales of 

 Russian goods might stimulate the development of tourism. 



Such an arrangement would not lend itself to short-term advan- 

 tages for the Soviet Union. However, if the political costs of tourism 

 could be tolerated, the advantages would build over time. A Soviet 

 decision to accept the political costs and promote tourism could create 

 a demand for more goods and services from the U.S. tourist industry. 



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