“This year we have 85 volunteers working. We expect 5,000 (visitors) this year. We have much better parking and I hope the people will be overwhelmed with the amount of plants.”
Dave Rusk
“(McCartney) came here about a year or two ago just as a visitor -- we take paying visitors -- and he had a look around,”
John Leslie
“It hasn't been a great year but we're happy to see our visitors returning. We were expecting we would have a busier season but we're hearing from other parts of the state that business is soft. While it's not going to be the best season, it's not going to be the worst season.”
Nancy Hamilton
“We expect to see a moderate increase in arrivals and healthier increase in visitor spending in 2006.”
Frank Haas
“Throughout the first week of grand-opening festivities, well over 100,000 visitors are expected,”
Tom Ross
“We expect Mardi Gras to be - in terms of visitors - roughly about half of what a normal Mardi Gras would be. Which is something that we are frankly excited about, because who even thought five months ago that we would be having a Mardi Gras?”
Stephen Perry
“We've seen in the last year here in the state, visitor expenditures grow 7.5%, which is our strongest rate of growth in the last five years.”
Todd Davidson
