To the Editor: Your Practical Traveler column “Labor Day’s Last-Minute Lure” (Aug. 23) highlighted the difficulties the travel industry is having during these challenging economic times.

Here’s a suggestion to jump-start domestic travel: use stimulus funds to bring back the World’s Fair. Reinstituting the fair would create jobs during the planning/construction phases; jobs and economic benefits during the fair; and if the fair produces an innovative structure, permanent benefits for the host community as it shows off the structure.

Paul Feiner

Greenburgh, N.Y.