The tourism boycott "was more of a celebrity boycott," he said, adding that its impact was "very low."

Veterans vowed a tourism boycott.

Whatever the ethics of the matter, few Chinese seem to favor a tourism boycott.

"The current regime," Mrs. Hasenfeld said, "is helped, not hindered by an American tourism boycott."

Mexico's vote in favor of the resolution led some United States Jews to organize a tourism boycott of Mexico.

But a campaign by animal rights advocates over the past two years, including protests, letters and efforts to encourage a tourism boycott, has drawn new recruits to the fight.

It is one thing to call for a tourism boycott of South Africa, where the Government has supported human rights abuses for decades, and all other strategies for change have failed.

Animal rights groups have called for a tourism boycott in protest against the plan.

Earlier this month, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference called for a tourism boycott of Georgia if lawmakers did not make a change in next year's session.

But the program met with vast protest, including the start of a tourism boycott, forcing Gov. Walter J. Hickel to suspend it last month.