The search continued yesterday for the man wanted for questioning in the death of a young woman whose body was found Friday morning on a Waikiki beach.

Bryanna Antone, 25, a college student from New Mexico was in Honolulu with her family for an international dental convention.

Police said yesterday there were no new developments in the case.

Marsha Wienert, state tourism liaison, said yesterday that "anytime something tragic like this happens" it can have an impact on tourism. "Hopefully it will be solved quickly," she said.

Police want to question Aaron M. Susa, 31, who was seen with Antone hours before her body was found. They are treating the case as a possible homicide. They described Susa as "a person of interest" in the case.

Antone left the Waikiki Ohana Hotel with Susa about 1:40 a.m. Friday, police said. Hours later, a jogger found her nude body on the beach fronting the Royal Hawaiian Hotel.

Dr. Russell Masunaga, a dentist who practices in Kalihi, attended the convention. He said that the jogger who found Antone's body on Friday morning was a dentist attending the convention.

"That was what made people at the convention aware of it," Masunaga said yesterday.

Fred Peterson, manager of media relations for the American Dental Convention, said yesterday that the organization had no information on the case.

More than 24,000 people gathered in Waikiki last week for the convention.

Jessica Lani Rich, president and executive director of the Visitor Aloha Society of Hawai'i, said yesterday that the organization has been helping the family with all the necessary arrangements to cope with Antone's death.

She said the family wished to express its deep gratitude to the community for the outpouring of support it has received from tourism, travel industry, law enforcement and other officials as well as the Visitor Aloha Society.

Rich reiterated that the family did not want to talk to the news media and asked that its privacy be respected in their time of grief.

Susa is described as 5 feet 10 and 180 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. He lives on O'ahu and frequents the Waikiki area, police said.

Records at the state's criminal justice data center and other court documents show that Susa was convicted in March of 2005 for promotion of a dangerous drug and possession of drug paraphernalia, both felonies. He received five years' probation.

In July 2007, he was charged with breaking into a car, a violation of his probation.

Warrants have been issued concerning his failure to comply with the conditions of his probation and failure to appear in court. There are also two outstanding traffic warrants, police said.

Susa's summary of charges involves mostly misdemeanors: terroristic threatening, indecent exposure, trespassing, property damage and other violations.

The Honolulu medical examiner's office has not officially identified the woman or released the cause of death.