Louisiana

New Orleans is known for executing logistically complex events with an elevated level of success.

New Orleans is famously known as the home of the Mardi Gras festival, but also is a cultural hot bed for food, music and culture 365 days a year, making it an attractive city to host any event.

If there’s one quality the city of New Orleans has demonstrated time and again, it’s the ability to face adversity, overcome the odds and ultimately come back stronger than ever.

With a new $1.3 billion airport, an ongoing face-lift for the convention center and a fleet of new hotels, 2022 promises to be a transformative one for one of America’s favorite destinations, New Orleans.

Louisiana is ready for 2022, and across the state, in-person meetings are on a significant rise.

As event organizers look forward, cities such as New Orleans, Baton Rouge and the Shreveport-Bossier region in Louisiana remain high on their list of world-class meeting destinations. Here’s why…

New Orleans is a jewel that can’t be duplicated. Yet, there are planners who feel just as strongly about Shreveport-Bossier in the northwest corner of the state. And, that’s good news. Louisiana offers choices.

Louisianans love to celebrate — food, culture, irreverence, Fat Tuesday, blues, jazz, Cajun accordion riffs, marching down the street at any opportunity and life itself.

Year after year, the Crescent City, so named because of its location on the Mississippi River, draws enthusiastic attendees from across the U.S. to meetings large and small. And its reputation for letting the good times roll invariably precedes their arrival.

Corporate events in this one-of-a-kind destination are up by 20 percent so far in 2017.