New Orleans Weathers Gustav

Reprinted from This Week At PCMA

New Orleans has survived Hurricane Gustav with limited damage. The city was mostly evacuated in advance of Gustav, which made landfall along the Gulf Coast of Louisiana on Monday morning.

In a statement released late Sunday evening, New Orleans Convention & Visitors Bureau President and CEO Stephen Perry praised federal, state, and local officials for their planning and cooperation in readying New Orleans for Gustav. The CVB, he said, took an active role in coordinating emergency communications to the city's hotels, and helped facilitate the evacuation of some 30,000 visitors. "No city has ever been as well prepared for a major catastrophic event as is New Orleans today," Perry said. "The public and private security of our hospitality facilities is superb. We look forward to quickly managing through the storm and reopening for business shortly thereafter."

According to the latest post on www.neworleans.org, "it is not anticipated that the storm will have any impact on the Fall convention and meetings calendar."