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...result, Rosarito Beach hotels, 20 minutes from Tijuana, ran at a 60% occupancy rate during Easter week, according to Torres, a hotel owner himself. This may be optimistic. Even during the bike race hotels were offering deals, like oceanfront suites for two nights, including dinner for two each night (with free dinners for children) at $219 total...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baja, Land of Drug Wars, Tries to Draw Tourists | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

...Hotels in Los Cabos, with rooms commonly averaging over $400 a night, aren't lowering rates, but are offering incentives like $400 credits toward airfare, free rental cars, and massages. Messerli says hotel occupancy rates were down just slightly in March, from 80% to 76%, which she attributes to bad press up north, she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baja, Land of Drug Wars, Tries to Draw Tourists | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

...Santa Clara, Calif., man shot five people to death, including three children, before killing himself. On April 3, a gunman went on a shooting rampage in an immigration center in Binghamton, N.Y., killing 13 people before taking his own life. And on April 20, employees of a Sheraton Hotel in Maryland found the bodies of a husband and wife and two daughters, victims of another apparent murder-suicide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Copycat Behavior Driving Murder-Suicides? | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

Charge cards have been around since the 1920s, when service stations, department stores and hotel chains began offering them to automobile-loving consumers who didn't want to trek back to their hometown bank to get cash. But it wasn't until the postwar boom of the 1950s that credit cards really caught on. In 1950, Diners Club issued its first card--made of cardboard--for use in 27 restaurants in New York City. A year later, nearly 20,000 Americans carried it in their wallet. American Express, which had specialized in traveler's checks, created its card...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History of: Credit Cards | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

Petraeus, meanwhile, joined many of the forum attendees for a dinner at the Charles Hotel Ballroom to honor veterans from the Harvard Kennedy, Business, and Law Schools. The event—held for the third consecutive year—was attended by several hundred students and faculty, and included a steak dinner and a prayer from Reverend Peter J. Gomes...

Author: By Evan T. R. Rosenman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Petraeus Honors Young Veterans | 4/22/2009 | See Source »

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