From clearing palm-strewn beaches to rebuilding hotels, hurricane-hit islands with lingering damage have been scrambling to salvage tourist business. Hit hardest was Grenada, where September's Hurricane Ivan left most buildings damaged. Electricity still hasn't been restored to the entire island, but hotels including the Calabash, Grenada Grand Beach Resort, Allamanda Beach Resort and True Blue Bay Resort are open. La Luna is scheduled to reopen Saturday. The Flamboyant Hotel and Blue Horizons Garden Resort are expected to reopen soon. Spice Island Beach Resort will be closed for a year. Cruise ships have returned, and a new port is scheduled to open Jan. 22. Tourist attractions including Grand Anse Beach, Dougaldston Spice Estate and Gouyave Nutmeg Processing Station are open. Grenada's reefs and shipwrecks, which are popular with divers, were undisturbed. Still, "I'm advising my clients to wait to travel to Grenada unless they want to go for humanitarian purposes," says Linda Thompkins, owner of Travel 2 the Caribbean, an online travel agency. "Hotels may say they're up and running, but there's a lot of debris. Right now, it's not the beautiful spice island." Reprinted from usatoday.com