Wednesday, November 30, 2005

New Orleans says it's tuning up for tourists - Yahoo! News

New Orleans says it's tuning up for tourists - Yahoo! News: "New Orleans says it's tuning up for tourists

By Janet Guttsman Tue Nov 29, 3:58 PM ET

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - New Orleans, battered by a hurricane and then swamped by floods, is getting ready for the return of visitors, senior city officials said on Tuesday.


Speaking three months to the day after Hurricane Katrina devastated much of the city and sent its population fleeing to new homes around America, the officials said tourists should reassess their doomsday notions of New Orleans, a city of almost half a million people before the storm."

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