New Orleans: The Tourists are Back

Travel Blog • Eva Holland • 08.28.09 | 11:43 AM ET

Photo by tim eschaton via Flickr (Creative Commons)

With the fourth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina being marked this weekend, and the re-building still ongoing, there’s some hopeful news for New Orleans: Tourism in the city is creeping steadily back towards pre-disaster levels. USA Today crunches the numbers.

Tags: Tourism, North America, United States, Louisiana, New Orleans, News and Briefs

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Eva Holland is the senior editor of World Hum. Her writing has also appeared in the National Post, the Montreal Gazette, the Ottawa Citizen and WestJet's Up! Magazine, among other publications. She's based in Ottawa, Canada.

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