HOUSTON – Continental Airlines said Monday it plans to begin nonstop flights from Houston to Edmonton International Airport beginning Nov. 1.

The plan is awaiting government approval.

The airline said that flights are expected to depart Houston’s Bush Intercontinental Airport at 6 p.m., arriving in Edmonton at 9:25 p.m. From Edmonton, flights will depart at 6:40 a.m. and arrive in Houston at 11:56 a.m.

The service will be operated using Continental’s Boeing 737-500 aircraft.

Houston-based Continental has 2,750 daily departures to 133 domestic and 132 international destinations.

WEST GLACIER, Mont. – The Obamas are not the only ones with presidential connections to hit national parks this summer.

Seventy-five years after President Franklin Delano Roosevelt traveled on the newly built Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park, his great-granddaughter re-created the journey.

Kate Roosevelt of Seattle said the trip allowed her to imagine how things were in 1934.

“It’s really fun to think of them doing this, just like we are,” Kate Roosevelt said. She even unpacked a picnic lunch at the top of Logan Pass, as the president had done.

Both made the trip in Cadillac touring cars.

Kate Roosevelt worked at Glacier 20 years ago.

After the 52-mile trip, FDR delivered a national radio address from Two Medicine Chalet in which he said: “Today, for the first time in my life, I have seen Glacier National Park. Perhaps I can best express to you my thrill and delight by saying that I wish every American, old and young, could have been with me today.”

He added that he hoped “that each and every one of you, who can possibly find the means and opportunity for so doing, will visit our national parks and use them as they are intended to be used.”

Glacier National Park, in northwestern Montana, became the nation’s 10th national park in 1910 and is celebrating its centennial next year.

FDR remains the only sitting president to visit Glacier.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – A new report offers a bleak outlook for the Caribbean hotel industry.

PKF Hospitality Research says the region’s hotels had an average drop in profits of 16 percent in 2008 and there will be “further profit deterioration” this year.

The report finds steep discounts and special offers have not offset a 4 percent decline in visitors to the tourism-dependent area.

The report also predicts that about 50 planned hotel projects will likely be delayed because developers are struggling to get financing.

It noted a number of hotels have been forced to close, including the Four Seasons on Great Exuma in the Bahamas.