Tourism

The Auto Club of Southern California does not appear to have broken the law by keeping secret its ownership of the nation's leading Hawaiian tour packager, the state attorney general's office said Tuesday. "We've looked at everything that we could think of, and we can't find any violation," said Herschel Elkins, the assistant attorney general in charge of consumer law.

"Be at one with your herring," my sister Linda said, mocking me as she slipped a wriggling silver sliver onto her hook. I had foolishly asked her secret to catching fish.

On the outside, the Villa Veneto is just another of the nondescript high-rise hotels catering to the foreign visitors who flock to this beachside resort town.

The lofty crown of the Statue of Liberty, closed to the public since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, will reopen July 4, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced Friday.

Reeling from a rash of drug-world violence and the effects of the global recession, Mexico's tourism is now taking a beating from the swine flu outbreak that is suspected in the deaths of 149 people and prompted the closing of theme parks, soccer stadiums and other public places.

A bipartisan group of senators predicted Tuesday that Congress was ready to pass legislation to allow all Americans to travel to Cuba. Removing the travel ban would produce a burst of tourism, create thousands of jobs and generate as much as $1.