Kids’ stuff: The Breakers Hotel in Palm...

Kids’ stuff: The Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach, Fla., will hold its annual weeklong etiquette and money management camps next month. The Etiquette Camp, set for July 15-21 for children ages nine to 16, includes seminars on introductions, the art of conversation, table manners and settings, plus grooming, phone manners, writing thank-you notes and ballroom dancing. The fee is $550 per child. In the Money Management Camp, to be held July 22-28 for children 12 to 15, subjects will include explanations of stocks, bonds and mutual funds, the 1987 stock market crash, ethics in investing and daily living. Each participant will make a $100 stock purchase (included in the $600 registration fee) as part of the program. Parents are invited to the semi-formal graduation banquet on Friday night. The fee includes daily lunch, but not room, breakfast or dinner. For complete details, call (800) 833-3141.

Growing up: Tourism along Mexico’s Caribbean coast has grown tenfold over the past 20 years, according to a government official.

Tourism Secretary Pedro Joaquin Coldwell, speaking at a hotel industry conference in Cancun recently, said the region now attracts 1.3 million visitors annually. The area includes Cancun, Tulum, Cozumel and Isla Mujeres.

Coldwell said visitors to this region spend 70% more per capita than the world average for tourism spending. Most hotel rooms in Cancun and Cozumel cost at least $100 U.S. per night.

Antonio Abdon Srabillon, president of the Cancun Hotel Assn., said that hotel owners have spent $14 million to restore the area since Hurricane Gilbert hit in September, 1988.

More Mexico: Word is that Mexico will have unleaded gas throughout the nation before next October. The publication “Mexico Now” also adds that crossing the border in autos will be smoother in the future since the Mexican Immigration Department has taken over the issuing of car permits, eliminating a second stop at customs offices at border crossings.

Easier access: Bahrain has relaxed visa restrictions in a bid to attract more foreign visitors.

Tourists, businessmen and relatives of residents will receive 7-day or 72-hour visas automatically if they have valid passports, return air tickets, are not seeking employment and do not pose a threat to the security, public order or national interest of Bahrain, according to a government publication.

Immigration officials said the new rules were aimed mainly at foreigners in the nearby gulf states of Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.