A year after Katrina, area experiencing slower than usual business
A year after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans is desperately seeking tourists.
The areas where tourists go largely escaped devastation - and are anxiously awaiting visitors to come and spend money.
Plenty of hotel rooms are again available, most of New Orleans' world-renowned restaurants are open, events such as Mardi Gras and Jazz Fest are back and the city is reassembling its national sports presence centered around the Louisiana Superdome and New Orleans Arena.
Although the hot, humid months of summer are typically the city's slow season, tourism officials say there's more than ample evidence - from their cash registers - that word hasn't gotten out.
"Right now, we're hunkered down for a slow summer," said Darrius Gray, general manager of the Holiday Inn-French Quarter and president of the Greater New Orleans Hotel & Lodging Association. "It's slower than usual."
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