Tourism Recovers Slowly In New Orleans

Travel writer Matt Gross reports on the state of tourism in New Orleans.

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November 28, 2006, 10:00 AM PST

"It was a Friday afternoon in late October, and the narrow lanes of the French Quarter were quiet. Fresh paint - pale green, robin's egg blue, canary yellow - adorned the low, tidy Creole cottages, and the wrought-iron railings of town-house balconies shone blackly in the sunlight. The streets were free of litter, the air unpolluted by the musky odor of all-night parties. But as I wandered the beautiful Quarter, one question stuck in my mind: Where was everybody?"

FULL STORY: Back to New Orleans, Gently

Sunday, November 26, 2006 in The New York Times

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