If you are interested there is a new website by the Guam Visitor's Bureau at http://www.visitguam.org. I stopped by there yesterday to see what kind of free stuff I could score. I also wanted to ask if they could have someone come talk to my students about the role tourism plays for Guam.

Tourist businesses have really suffered since the March disasters in Japan. Tourism is way off and there is no prediction for when the numbers will come up again.

On top of that there are some congressmen in Washington wondering if maybe they should cancel the build-up (i.e., moving the Marines from Okinawa to Guam). There are a lot of people here investing heavily in anticipation of those people coming here. If it doesn't happen the island faces an economic crisis that will hit here a lot harder than the current recession is hitting the States.