“Chocolate City” Shows Its Class

Hey!  New Orleans!  What are you gonna do with that BP swag sent to you to help with the hit to your tourism???

Give the finger to the home country of the entity writing the check, of course!

From the UK Daily Mail:

Tourism chiefs in New Orleans are set to launch a cheeky ‘anti-British’ advertising campaign to lure tourists – paid for with $5million of oil giant BP.

The campaign comes as the gulf oil spill threatens to damage New Orleans’ fragile tourism industry, which is still recovering from Hurricane Katrina five years ago.

The New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau came up with the idea. According to blogofneworleans.com, NOCV bureau president Steve Perry said: ‘You can’t just say we’re open, come.

Stay classy, NOLA!

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