Obama Tourism

PHOTOS: Prince Charming!

The Huffington Post | Ellie Krupnick & Jessica Misener | Posted 01.20.2012

We love the Obamas. We love the royals. We also love Disney (natch). So we really can't think of anything more fantastic than a presidential trip to D...

Obama Touts Tourism, Mickey's Big Ears At Disney World

Posted 01.19.2012

On Thursday, President Obama headed south to the happiest place on earth to talk tourism. Obama, ever the jokester, opened up his speech along Dis...

Obama Going To Disney World

AP | JULIE PACE | Posted 03.20.2012

NEW YORK — From the Magic Kingdom to the Apollo Theater, President Barack Obama on Thursday made the case for American tourism and his own re-el...

Kid Offering View Of Obama's Chicago Home For $10

Chicago Tribune | Ofelia Casillas | Posted 05.25.2011

Obama's red-brick house in the Hyde Park/Kenwood neighborhood is protected by concrete barricades at either end of his block. Chicago police cars stan...

Claiming Obama: Hawaii, Illinois Battle For Tourism Edge

Chicago Tribune | John McCormick | Posted 05.25.2011

HONOLULU -- Locals here sometimes call Barack Obama a kamaaina, the Hawaiian word for native born or one who has lived here for some time. Chicagoans,...

Obama's Hyde Park

New York Times | Michael Y. Park | Posted 05.25.2011

Hyde Park hasn't gotten this much attention since 1893, when the Chicago World's Fair introduced the country to electricity and serial killers. But in...

Hotel Offering Obama-Themed 'City Of Hope' Package

Financial Times | Hal Weitzman | Posted 05.25.2011

A luxury hotel might seem like a bad business to be running during an economic downturn, but Patrick Hatton, general manager of The James in downtown...

Tourism Business Booming In Obama's Chicago

ABC News | MATTHEW JAFFE | Posted 05.25.2011

Despite the cold weather and biting wind, out-of-town guests, as usual, on Thanksgiving weekend, are hitting the sites in Chicago, America's third-lar...

An Obama Boom in Hyde Park?

David Hoyt | Posted 05.25.2011

David Hoyt

It will take a lot more than the impulse spending of a presidential entourage to provide the housing, transit, jobs, and retail amenities that are needed in the President-elect's own back yard.

Illinois Tourism Counting On Big Obama Boost

AP | CARLA K. JOHNSON | Posted 05.25.2011

CHICAGO — Chicago's tourism Web site beckons visitors to "experience the city the Obamas enjoy." The Illinois Bureau of Tourism plans to launch ...