RS 21:202: Purpose

This Chapter is enacted for the purpose of facilitating the collection and use of private-sector-originated supplementary funds to market and promote greater New Orleans as a traveler destination and to provide for increased economic activity within its traveler economy, including an increased number of conventions, meetings, visitors, hotel occupancy, food, beverage and other retail sales, tourism, including cultural and family tourism, job creation and other economic development and related purposes through an optional, self-generated, private-sector hotel self-assessment program.