PREFACE<br > TOURISM IN MICRONESIA<br >Though Micrenes~a has yet to be fuLLy "d~s- mes as many as Tahiti. Salpan， with much<br >cove ed" by the p~moters of packaged con- bette beaches than Guam and no militarf<br >sumer tourism， Guam and Saipan already bases， isn tfarbehind OnGuamtoursmha~<br > gure alongs de such fleshpots as BaLi， Thai su passed military spending as a source 01<br >and， and Hawaii in the tourism markets of income for theterritoryandnowtourismeve~<br >Tokyo Nagoya， and Osaka. Belau ala hot con c s with military use--the govemmeal<br >new destination about to be opened to Japo- o Guam is demanding that more of the 3O%<br >nese mass tourism and Pohnpei already has of the s and s surface presently held by the<br >a big new Japanese scuba-diving operation military be released for airport expansion and<br >that needs only a ~uple of luxury hotels other civilian use.<br >nearby to become really profitable. On Guam the big hotels have Long be~<br > A h s ac ivity dates back to 1962 when es cnd o the Tureen Bay strip but<br >the U S. government lifted its requirement of three additional h[gh-dse hotels presently un-<br >a security clearance to visit Microneala Pan der cons uc ion at Tumon a Holiday Inn， a<br >Americ~ AJ~ays inaugurated d~rect flights Hyatt Regency， and a Hotel Nikko) hotel de*<br > om Tokyo to Guam in 1967， the same year velopment has been pushed closer to down.<br > Con6nental Airlines got together wth local town Agana. The 4O3-room Palace Hot~<br > business interests to create a new joint yen- opened on Oca Point in 1991， just acm~<br > u e， Continental Air Micronesia， which be Agana Bay from the city， and the soaring<br > gan sew ce from HonoLulu to Salpan in 1968 OnwardAganaBeachHotalisgo~ng~pne~"<br > Airstrips were gradually upgraded in all the by. All these hotels would close wdhin awesk<br > gstrct~nersoftheoldTrustTerrdoryofthe ifJapanesetou companiesstsppodsendi~<br > Pac c slandsandbylg76Air M~keslsalnd their packaged pLaneloeds south<br > Hopper was calling at Mature， Kwajalein， TheJspaneseareblgongolfandtherear~<br > Pohedal and Chuuk (Truk} between Hone- new a half dozen sprawling golf coupes 0~<br > Lulu and Guam; feeder se~ces ew on o 54t-square-km Guam. Qalte achunkofS~"<br > Sa pan， Yap， and Koror. Kosrae only became pan s 123 square km is eaten up by its three<br > partof Continental swnddin1986whenajet courses and little 85 square-km Retail<br > runway was dredged up from the hagoon threatened by at least two projected<br > TO ac i ate tourist movements on its ser- cou ses including one with 54 holes! The~<br > vces ConSnental built the first big hotels in acilit]es are too expensive for most k<br > Micrenesia， the Trek Cenbnental (1970， the golfers and when they re combined w th<br > Guam Hilton (1970)， Koror s Hotel Nikko military resewations， housing develedmel<br > (1971) and he Salpan Hyatt Regency shoppng malls roads parking areas， ~t<br > (974). For vadous reasons Majuro， Pohnpal， moun ainous island interiors， there isn t al<br > and Yap never got the big hotels originally o ~and left over Things are really heating~<br > planned for them and there are stilk no alrge on Salpan and Guam， wdh day-long trSf~<br > n e na ional tourist resorts on those islands， ares along he west coast highways el bo~<br > q s not widely known that Guam s now he islands. The popala ion of Salpon deul~ed<br > second-most-important tourist destinaedn in the g7Os and again in the lg80s.<br > the Pacific islands (after Hawaii)， with three When the MarLanas Covenant was s]gn~<br > times as manytourists ayear as Fijiand five by President Ford in 1976 a grealsion wa<br >