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St. Louis: America’s most dangerous city
The most dangerous US city to visit is St. Louis, according to a new report compiled by Morgan Quitno Press.
The news came just as the city was still celebrating the completion of baseball team’s win at the World Series.
The CVB had no comment, but the news can’t help but detract from what tourism officials call the “unprecedented hotel building, re-branding and renovation” efforts valued at $3.5 billion just in downtown.
New projects have abounded and there’s been a recent flurry of activity in the travel arena.
“The latest hostelry news is that Pinnacle Entertainment, which is building a $400 million casino in the Laclede’s Landing Entertainment District to open in fall of 2007, has purchased the Embassy Suites — St. Louis Downtown,” said the area’s CVB.
The hotel will be attached to the new casino and spa through an elevated pedestrian walkway.
Other new hotels include the 195-room Hilton St. Louis Downtown and the Hampton Inn St. Louis Downtown.
The city attracts more than 20 million visitors a year who find highlights include the 630-foot-tall Gateway Arch, and many museums and art galleries offering free admission.
The city has a half million square feet of meeting space at America’s Center, where there are also 7600 renovated hotel rooms within just one mile. The city has a total of 35,000 hotel rooms.
This year, the city’s tourism officials started a campaign called “Hello, My Name is St. Louis.”
Over the past three years, 2,600 hotel sleeping rooms have been added to the downtown core. They include the Hilton St. Louis Downtown, the Renaissance Grand and Renaissance Suites and the Westin St. Louis (recently named the Number One Westin in the world).
The bad news for St. Louis was good for Camden, N.J., which last year was named the most dangerous city for the second year in a row.
“You made my day,” said Camden Mayor Gwendolyn Faison.
He also may have been encouraged to know that Orlando, Fla., which gets even more tourists than St. Louis, was ranked 25th most dangerous on the list.
Report by David Wilkening
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