This study will investigate several variables that affect the hotel industry cycle across the time line. These benchmarks include average daily rates (ADR), revenue per available room (REVPAR), occupancy rates (percentages), supply of rooms, and economic indicators. Since New Orleans' industry...

Legalized gambling is being promoted as the economic development tool of the 1990's. All across America, communities are embracing an industry once relegated to the back rooms of seedy establishments run by shady characters of questionable moral standing. This new-found respect for gambling...

Regionalism is being explored by a wide variety of community players who include representatives from the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors (Dodge 1996, 1). Intermunicipal agreements, county service expansion, new region-wide special purpose governments, and multi-sector coalitions of...