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Dear Sir,

As a travel agent of 37 years, up until about 1995, I used to send quality tourists by plane to many hotels and inns located in Bermuda.

They enjoyed the fact that Bermuda seemed to be a clean, safe, and charming island without the drugs, government problems, crime rate, nudity on beaches, wild clubs and racial tension found at some Caribbean destinations.

However, in the past decade or so, Bermuda does not seem to want tourists as much and the seemingly harmony between races, crime and drug use has all gone to pot (no pun intended).

[Tony] Brannon may be a big mouth, but to a travel person in the U.S., who does not know him personally, what he says does hold many true observations.

Ask most of the 400 travel agencies in the vast Washington DC metro area of over one million people about Bermuda, and our clients are not going! And its for many of the reasons Tony has talked about for the last three to six years.

As for myself, from 1963 to 1993, I had travelled to Bermuda over 20 times, but no more.

It is crowded with K-Mart type cruise ship passengers and locals who are not that friendly any more.

What the heck happened to Bermuda?

There is a quiet tension and fear that did not exist in the 70s and 80s.

Beth Miller

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