Hurricane Updates
September 2, 2005
Hurricane Updates
If you have updated information on your business as the hurricane recovery process continues, please forward it to NTA Communications Specialist Pat Henderson at pat.henderson@ntastaff.com and it will be posted at NTA Online.
Hurricane Updates – Five Months Later
NTA conducted a series of interviews with tourism professionals in the United States Gulf Coast region to give you a firsthand update regarding the recovery process. Excerpts of each of the interviews appeared in NTA’s weekly e-newsletter, Tuesday, from Jan. 24 through Feb. 21. To read each part of the series, click on the following links:
Detailed update on status of New Orleans
Click here to read a recent update on things in New Orleans. (May 25)
All jazzed up for Jazz Fest
Click here to read about the importance of the upcoming New Orelans Jass & Heritage Festival. (USA Today, April 26)
Cancun beaches fully restored after storms
Click here to read about Mexico declaring that restoration is complete at all beaches in Cancun. (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 19)
Tourism – Caring For America Clean Up Project a Success
Tourism Cares for Tomorrow Web site, March 21
Central Michigan Life, March 20
WLOX-TV/Gulfport, March 19
Want to take a volunteer group to the Gulf Coast to help with the cleanup and recovery?
Here is more information for people wishing to bring groups to Mississippi and Louisiana to aid in the ongoing relief and recovery efforts:
Special hurricane information included in recent issues of Courier
The October Courier features a special 16-page section on Hurricane Katrina. It includes stories on members in the affected areas and other NTA-member companies from all over that pitched in to help. There are sponsorships, from which ALL of the proceeds will be donated to the Gulf Coast Community Foundation’s "Build Back Our Coast Fund." The November and December issues also included followup articles on hurricane recovery.
Share your thoughts on the online Member Forums or read updates from individual members located in areas affected by recent hurricanes
Click here for the online Member Forums.
Insurance information from The Berkely Group
Click here to read a statement from The Berkely Group regarding Katrina.
Click here to view The Berkely Group’s NTA Travel Protection plan
Airline/airport updates
Federal Aviation Administration Web site
Web links for each airline carrier
Cruise ship updates
Carnival
Royal Caribbean International
Read updates from official state Web sites (state-specific relief fund information in parentheses)
Alabama – (Click here for Alabama relief fund information)
Florida
Louisiana – (Click here for Louisiana relief fund information)
Mississippi – (Click here for Mississippi relief fund information)
Texas
Read updates from official Web sites of major cities affected by recent hurricanes
Mississippi Gulf Coast (Gulfport and Biloxi)
Mobile, Ala.
New Orleans, La.
Lake Charles, La.
General information on relief efforts and sites of agencies where you can make donations
Click here to read a "Guide to Appropriate Giving" from InterAction
Click here to see USA FreedomCorps site, containing information on such things as donations, emergency relief funds, contacting loved ones and volunteering
Red Cross
Salvation Army
Operation Blessing
America’s Second Harvest – The Nation’s Food Bank Network
Information on travel industry relief efforts
Click here to read more about the "Rebirth Louisiana" project
Click here to learn more about TIA’s initiative to create a job bank (http://www.katrinajobs.org/) to help workers displaced by Hurricane Katrina find new employment
Click here to read about the Gulf Coast Community Foundation’s "Build Back Our Coast Fund," which will aid the economic recovery, rebuilding efforts and job regeneration in the coastal region
Click here to find out what Tourism Cares for Tomorrow is doing to help the Katrina relief effort.
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