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It’s good news that New Orleans has a safer image with potential tourists but hardly surprising. Efforts to get crime under control and make the city safer for residents as well as visitors have been a success story, and tourists are getting the message. The more surprising revelation in a survey commissioned by the New [...]

But regional visits down by 700,000 New Orleans’ image as a safe and exciting tourist destination has improved since 1996, but the city might have lost some of its regional market share to the Mississippi Gulf Coast, according to a new survey on local tourism scheduled to be released today. According to the study, conducted [...]