New Orleans Hotel Industry Impacts | A Benchmark for Post-Katrina Recovery
As the City of New Orleans and its citizens rebuild homes, infrastructure, and businesses, policy makers and business leaders have sought to evaluate how best to recover from the damage Hurricane Katrina caused in August 2005. For some local industries, it may be informative to have benchmarks from before the hurricane that provide a basis of comparison during recovery.
As the City of New Orleans and its citizens rebuild homes, infrastructure, and businesses, policy makers and business leaders have sought to evaluate how best to recover from the damage Hurricane Katrina caused in August 2005. For some local industries, it may be informative to have benchmarks from before the hurricane that provide a basis of comparison during recovery. To take one example, if the local hotel industry could have an accurate measurement of its size and importance to the local economy prior to Hurricane Katrina, then it could have a clearer understanding of its progress in the recovery process moving forward. Furthermore, policy makers could use this information to inform their decisions about how to prioritize efforts to spur recovery in certain industries. (Click below link to download complete report).
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