“Tourism is a $6.35 billion industry and a huge part of the local economy along this coast. Katrina not only washed away the culturally historic communities here, it also washed away a big part of our livelihood, but it could not take away our spirit. I cannot believe the substantial progress Tourism - Caring for America volunteers made. With 20 percent of our economy laid off due to Katrina-related issues, we have been working day in and day out over the past six months to get our communities back on track. This kind of concentrated effort makes us feel like we moved mountains in just a few days.”
Craig Ray
“The worst thing is the lack of justice. To leave the case unattended and unsolved was... as cruel as killing Karin.”
Prof. Edwin Grech
“"The cradle of modern democracy but was now, on some measures, the most centralised country in Europe, bar Malta".”
British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg
“The expected recovery of the tourism industry in 2002 simply did not occur,”
Juan Somavia
“In terms of people's lives, let's say someone had a reasonably good job in the tourism industry, they're not going to wait around a year and half or two years for their job to come back. What's there when it (the Gulf economy) comes back might be qualitatively different than what it was before.”
Dean Baker
“That is because many outsource their tourism services to local tour operators, who have not embraced the idea -- they view us as competing with their bus tours.”
David Wong
“It had a huge [economic] impact. The effect on the tourism and exhibition industry was significant.”
Margaret Pederson
