New Orleans Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Tourist and convention business=== Tourism is a staple of the city's economy. Perhaps more visible than any other sector, New Orleans' tourist and convention industry is a $5.5 billion industry that accounts for 40 percent of city tax revenues. In 2004, the hospitality industry employed 85,000 people, making it the city's top economic sector as measured by employment.<ref name="0607marketing"/> New Orleans also hosts the World Cultural Economic Forum (WCEF). The forum, held annually at the [[New Orleans Morial Convention Center]], is directed toward promoting cultural and economic development opportunities through the strategic convening of cultural ambassadors and leaders from around the world. The first WCEF took place in October 2008.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wcefculture.com |title=World Cultural Economic Forumn |access-date=July 15, 2008 |archive-date=March 14, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314073218/http://wcefculture.com/ |url-status=dead}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page