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Article: New Orleans: 4 ways to see this historic city
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- May 15, 2005
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Tourism is by far New Orleans's biggest business -- 8.5 million
visitors in 2003. Mammoth chain hotels dominate the lower central
business district. Conventions and big meetings follow one another
like cars in rush-hour traffic. Living in a tourist bubble, partying
too much and inquiring too little, you could have a . . . of a time
in New Orleans and never really experience the city at all.
But there are better alternatives. This old city on the
Mississippi, well established as a debauched playground for the
incurably juvenile, is also the most exotic travel destination in the
United States. The challenge is to visit at an off-peak moment, when
the crazed and drunken crowds on Bourbon ...