New Orleans' Visitors Increases

Via: T-P

About 7.1 million people visited New Orleans last year, up from 3.7 million in 2006, according to a survey conducted by the University of New Orleans Hospitality Research Center for the New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau and the New Orleans Tourism Marketing Corporation.

Despite a whopping 92 percent increase, tourism still has yet to reach pre-Katrina levels when the city hosted about 8.5 million to 9 million visitors a year. Last year, visitors to New Orleans spent about $4.8 billion, or about $676 per visitor, compared with $2.8 million, or $756 per visitor in 2006.