11.   TOURISM REBOUNDS IN CALIFORNIA After a battering by earthquakes, urban riots and recession, California is in the midst of a tourist boom.

12.   With the tourist boom, several city hotels are now turning trade groups away, she said.

13.   Yet local merchants complain that even more must change for Nazareth to feel the benefits of the expected tourist boom.

14.   Pacific islands not getting hoped-for millennium tourist boom.

15.   Certain resort destinations such as Phuket and Pattaya have been major benefactors of the sudden tourist boom.

16.   Crimea, a top resort area during the Soviet days, long has been awaiting an economic and tourist boom.

17.   Early expectations of a tourist boom to celebrate the new millenium are being toned down.

18.   Foreign investors are putting up office complexes, department stores and hotels that will cater to an expected tourist boom in this still exotic land.

19.   Japanese people are easily influenced by trends and are likely to head elsewhere if they hear that the Australia tourist boom is over, he said.

20.   Many people moved here from impoverished areas of Mexico to take advantage of an expected tourist boom.