Visitors to return to New Orleans
The number of visitors to New Orleans rose from 3.7 million in 2006 to 7.1 million in 2007, according to a survey by the University of New Orleans Hospitality Research Center for the New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau and New Orleans Tourism Marketing Corporation, hospitality Neither has much work ahead of him before returning to the pre-Katrina.
Last year, 7.1 million visitors in the city a total of $ 4.8 billion. During 2006, the total number of visitors was 3.7 million visitors and a total of $ 2.8 billion. During a good year before Katrina New Orleans hosted 8.5 million to 9 million visitors a year.
In 2007, 70 percent of visitors were here for pleasure, 13.6 percent came from convention or fair, 11.5 per cent and came to a corporate network or business. The proportion of “Hurricane” in the context “visitors, such as insurance and emergency personnel has decreased sharply from 31.1 percent in 2006 to 4.3 per cent in 2007. The proportion of visitors Business, Pleasure prolong their stay has risen sharply, with an average extension of two nights.
“Tourism is a multi-billion dollars, the perception of business which not only takes happen aggressive advertising,” said Stephen J. Perry, President and CEO of the New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau. “A strong economy is tourism, tax revenues for the city schools and services, jobs for our citizens and to accelerate the resumption city. The hospitality industry is united, unlike ever before and is dedicated, that the resumption, as we do, to see the significant progress of our investment in the distribution, public relations and marketing. new impetus with several successes latest, but we still have a long way to go to succeed again the image of the destination in the minds of millions of visitors and Meeting Professionals makers travel around the world. “
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