As Chicago brings in some tourism money because U.S. President Barack Obama lived there as an adult, Hawaii is also capitalizing on Obama's links with the island to boost its tourism industry.

The 44th U.S. president was not the only Obama who once lived in Hawaii as a student, but also his father Barack Obama Sr., who enrolled at the University of Hawaii in 1959. There he met Stanley Ann Dunham, whom he fell in love with and got married. Dunham gave birth to her first born, Barack Obama, on Aug. 4, 1961.

They lived briefly in a Kaimuki blue duplex, which is now a tourist attraction. To generate more interest in the unit, a Honolulu tourist guide speculated America's 44th president was probably conceived in that house.

Other indicators of the growing Obama-craze in the tropical island are a local website Obamasneighborhood.com, an Obama-rama package offered by the Aqua Hotels & Resorts in Honolulu, T-shirts with images of the president surfing and a coffee called Barack O Blend made up of beans from Hawaiian, Indonesian and Kenyan coffee available at the Kona Joe Coffee on the Big Island of Hawaii bar.

The resort on Kailua Beach where Obama stayed for his Christmas holidays and his haunts in the island as a teenager are included in the tourist trail now offered to Hawaii visitors.

A trip to Hawaii is not complete without a visit to the Punahou School where Obama studied. But Jason Sivill, band leader of the school, pointed out, quoted by USA Today, "You don't see people on the corner selling Obama dolls, because the culture here is much less obsessive about celebrities. I think that's one of the reasons he (Obama) likes to come back."