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Article: Small Delta towns fight for prosperity.
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- The Mississippi Business Journal
- Article date:
- December 11, 2000
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Heritage tourism, reaching out to customers look promising.
IN THE DELTA -- Some of the most economically depressed communities in the nation are rural, pre-dominantly African-American communities in the Delta.
Efforts to enhance economic development critical to improving those towns are ranging from preserving and marketing heritage tourism attractions to overcoming regional isolation to reach potential customers beyond the immediate area.
"I think the main way to enhance economic development in these towns focuses on the need to overcome isolation," said Bill Bynum, CEO of the Enterprise Corporation of the Delta (ECD). "Many of these smaller ...