New Business Can Be Good Business For Ailing City

Panorama Public Relations plans to open a New Orleans office located in Kenner, between Metairie and Baton Rouge.

The Birmingham-based company said the location will allow Panorama to service the New Orleans metropolitan area and be more accessible to clients there.

Client service associate and New Orleans native Genevieve Douglass will partner with Vice President of Business Development Pam Thompson to serve clients out of the New Orleans branch.

Panorama has clients in the architecture, engineering, construction, health care, human resources, energy, real estate, legal, manufacturing, retail and leisure industries.

Destination: New Orleans

Good news for the Big Easy:

Bob Sharak, marketing and membership coordinator for the Cruise Lines International Association, said he's confident in New Orleans' future as cruise destination given the number of new ships scheduled to come online in the next four years and despite competition with other U.S. ports for Western Caribbean cruises and with European ports for the newly popular Mediterranean cruises.