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August 25, 2010
On the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans is experiencing a positive period of tourism and meetings market performance.
August 24, 2010
Confirming weeks of rumors, city officials have reached a predevelopment agreement with Omni Hotels & Resorts, which they have selected to build a new convention center hotel in downtown Nashville.
To fight the negative impact of the BP oil spill on their economies, state and federal officials from Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida have launched a new group known as the Gulf Coast Ready 4 Takeoff Coalition.
For the sixth consecutive month in June, hotel occupancy increased in Charlotte, N.C., indicating a tourism recovery for the Queen City.
The Mississippi Coast Coliseum & Convention Center in Biloxi, Miss., has completed a $118 million expansion and renovation that was supposed to be finished in 2007, but was derailed in 2005 by Hurricane Katrina.
August 10, 2010
America's most haunted city has commissioned a study of its coastline in order to determine whether it should open its ports to cruise ships.
A new hotel, the Atlanta Airport Marriott Gateway, has opened in Atlanta with 403 guest rooms and over 21,000 square feet of meeting space.
Since financing for it was approved in January, Nashville's new Music City Center has booked seven conventions totaling 67,000 room nights, despite losing nearly two months of sales time after flash floods crippled the city in May.
The New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau has launched a new online newsroom designed to keep journalists informed about the BP oil spill, as well as the city's $5 billion tourism industry.
July 27, 2010
Despite low occupancy rates in downtown Louisville, developers want to build five new hotels there in the coming years, adding at least 840 new guest rooms to the downtown area.
Although a hotel partner has not yet been chosen, Omni Hotels has agreed to buy land in downtown Nashville that previously was identified as the preferred location for a convention center hotel.
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