July 4th, 2009 will witness the reopening of the Statue of Liberty Crown in Ellis Island, which is one of the islands of New York City. The Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced exclusively this morning on the TODAY show that the Statue of Liberty Crown will reopen to the public on Independence Day. The reopening of of the the world's most popular monuments will increase the flow of tourists to Ellis Island as people come there to discover the history of past records.

Residents of Kauai island in Hawaii banded together to repair severe flooding damage to a state park after growing tired of waiting for the state government to step in. The repairs, which the Department of Land and Natural resources said would cost $4 million to fix, were completed entirely by volunteer work over the course of eight days.

A small group of adventure travelers chose Iraq as their next tourist destination. A group of eight people, including two Americans traveled Iraq as the country hopes to get back to normalcy by attracting tourists from around the world.

Despite the impact of the economic recession on the tourism industry there are certain destinations in the world which see a growing influx of tourists. The Klaas Voogds area, 2 hours East of Cape Town in South Africa, is one of these destinations. A co-operative mindset of tourism businesses in Klaas Voogds and targetting the 'Quality of Life' market is bearing fruit with a 50 percent growth in the number of package bookings.

Eliezer Márquez Navedo has admitted to murdering a young American tourist named Sara Kuszak in the town of Ceiba and is currently awaiting trial in a detention center in Fajardo, according to local paper El Nuevo Dia.

Klezmer clarinetist David Krakauer plays Ofer Ben Amots klezmer Concerto with the North/South Chamber Orchestra on Monday, February 9 at 8 PM in New York City.

New York City welcomed 47 million visitors, including a record 9.8 million international visitors, and attracted $30 billion in total visitor spending in 2008, keeping New York as the projected number one tourist city in the country. Despite economy's downturn, hotel occupancy rates continue to top national average by more than 20 percentage points.

Tourism ranks second in revenue generating for Costa Rica . The country has not been overdeveloped with mega resorts and volume group travel.

Iraqi officials are planning on having a ferris wheel built as a tourist attraction to the nation's capital, Baghdad. The wheel would be called 'Baghdad Eye' and is planned to sit over 650ft above the Tigris River. This is done in an effort to develope tourism to Baghdad and Iraq to change country's image. After all the countryis sitting on a huge multimillion dollar cash surplus.

The Beijing Olympic Games presents China with a valuable opportunity to re-align and boost its already thriving tourism industry. According to a paper in China and World Economy published by Wiley-Blackwell, China’s inbound tourism could continue its steady growth if the industry is able shift its heavy reliance of visitors from Hong Kong and Taiwan to the burgeoning Asian markets and developed countries.

Tibet would be reopened to foreign tourists from Wednesday, more than three months after the violent anti-China protests rocked the remote Himalayan region.

Luis Castillo Vidal, computer engineer of the University of Granada and one of the authors of the study, points out that, in order to design the customized visit plans, they have used Artificial Intelligence techniques, a science that provides computers with abilities to solve problems which, in principle, can only be solved by humans.