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‘Battle’ for New Orleans convention business
Both Dallas and Kansas City are among areas snagging convention bookings previously planned for New Orleans.
Two groups this week moved their October events to Kansas City and convention officials said more were likely.
“Dallas is poised to get a big piece of the pie,” wrote the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, which said the nation’s tourism industry was “battling” for the meetings.
The Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau was talking with planners for about a dozen large conventions, some of them up to 20,000 attendees.
Most of the meetings moving from New Orleans are three to six months away, but some are even more remote.
New Orleans officials announced that all 55 events scheduled for the city’s Morial Convention Center through the end of March have been cancelled.
New Orleans tourism officials estimated it would take six months to get back to normal, but other observers said a more accurate time frame may be a year.
Report by David Wilkening
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