For example, tourism has rebounded, at least among American visitors, though the city's tourism board estimated last week that tourist spending fell by about $1 billion in 2001.

As anyone who has dodged the hordes of theater-bound, sneaker-clad masses on any given Wednesday over the last few years knows, tourism has fully rebounded from its low before the Sept. 11 attack.

After a short time, tourism rebounded strongly.

The September 11, 2001 attacks caused a decline in business for stores and restaurants in Chinatown, although the area's economy as well as tourism have rebounded since then.

The Los Angeles Visitors and Convention hopes that tourism will rebound by the summer.

Some local officials contend tourism has rebounded, but Tom Mack, head of the Tourmobile system that takes visitors from one site to another, said, "Clearly our ridership is down, significantly down."

The Duty Free Shops division returned to "slight" profitability in 2003, the LVMH news release said, as tourism rebounded worldwide.

But Peruvians, and many foreigners, increasingly say they are convinced that tourism will rebound strongly in the late 1990's.

A decade later, tourism has rebounded to record levels.

He became the first vacationer slain in the new year in Florida, where tourism from abroad is rebounding after a decline attributed to a spate of violent crimes against foreign visitors in 1993-94.