One Year after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans Returns to priceline.com List of Most Popular Destinations for Labor Day 2006; New Study Shows Increased Demand for Hotel Accommodations in the French Quarter.NORWALK, Conn. -- One year later, New Orleans New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded is showing more signs of rebounding from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. . In its annual
survey of destinations receiving the most hotel room reservation
requests for the upcoming Labor Day Labor Day, holiday celebrated in the United States and Canada on the first Monday in September to honor the laborer. It was inaugurated by the Knights of Labor in 1882 and made a national holiday by the U.S. Congress in 1894. long weekend (September 2-4),
priceline.com(R) (Nasdaq: PCLN PCLN Priceline.com (stock abbreviation, AMEX) ) found that New Orleans' French
Quarter made its way back onto the list after a one-year absence.To compile To translate a program written in a high-level programming language into machine language. See compiler. its list of the Top 50 Labor Day travel destinations, priceline.com looked at a sampling of more than 30,000 hotel room booking requests made by priceline.com customers for the September 2-4, 2006 period. Since the priceline.com study is based on actual booking requests, and not on consumer preference polls or votes, priceline.com believes the study is one of the more accurate predictors of future travel trends. Priceline.com said it still has plenty of last-minute airline tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars, vacation packages and cruises available for Labor Day getaways. Visit www.priceline.com for full details. New Orleans' return to the list of most popular destinations was a full year in the making. Priceline.com conducts periodic destination surveys for major holiday periods and the French Quarter was a perennial perennial, any plant that under natural conditions lives for several to many growing seasons, as contrasted to an annual or a biennial. Botanically, the term perennial favorite among its customers. In addition to consistently ranking in the Top 50, New Orleans was the 18th most-popular destination for Labor Day 2004. After Hurricane Katrina hit the city on August 29, 2005, New Orleans disappeared from subsequent priceline.com Top 50 lists, only to re-appear today in the #40 spot. In other list results of note, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of City's Upper Midtown mid·town n. A central portion of a city, between uptown and downtown. midtown Noun US & Canad the centre of a town neighborhood became the #1 most-requested destination for Labor Day 2006, replacing the Las Vegas Strip The Las Vegas Strip (also known as The Strip) is a 4 mi (6.7 km) section of Las Vegas Boulevard South, most of which has been designated an All-American Road. vicinity, which had occupied the top spot for each of the past two years. Destinations recording the biggest gains in popularity year over year include Boston's Copley area (+21 spots), Maui's Wailea/Makena (+20 spots), Chicago's O'Hare area (+20 spots), New York's Midtown East (+17 spots), Downtown St. Louis Downtown St. Louis is the central business district of St. Louis, Missouri, the hub of tourism and entertainment and the anchor of the St. Louis Metropolitan area. The downtown is bounded by Interstate 64 to the south, Jefferson Ave. (+16 spots), Downtown Seattle Downtown is the central business district of Seattle, Washington. It is fairly compact compared to other city centers on the West Coast because of its geographical situation: hemmed in on the north and east by hills, on the west by Elliott Bay, and on the south by reclaimed land (+14 spots) and the San Antonio San Antonio (săn ăntō`nēō, əntōn`), city (1990 pop. 935,933), seat of Bexar co., S central Tex., at the source of the San Antonio River; inc. 1837. Riverwalk area (+14 spots). Neighborhoods cracking cracking - cracker the Labor Day Top 50 list for the first time include San Juan San Juan, city, Argentina San Juan (săn wän, Span. sän hwän), city (1991 pop. 353,476), capital of San Juan prov., W Argentina. It is a commercial and industrial center in an agricultural region. (20), Jackson Hole Jackson Hole, fertile Rocky Mt. valley, c.50 mi (80 km) long and 6 to 8 mi (9.6–12.8 km) wide, NW Wyo., partly in Grand Teton National Park. Jackson Lake, 39 sq mi (101 sq km), a natural lake through which the Snake River flows, was dammed in 1916 to control (45), Oahu's Diamond Head (48) and Portland (41). Travelers also seemed to shake off recent terrorism-related news, choosing London's Bloomsbury-Marble Arch neighborhood as their 25th most requested Labor Day destination. Rank 2006 Neighborhood Rank 2005 Yr/Yr Change --------- ------------ --------- ------------ 1 New York, Upper Midtown 4 +3 2 Chicago, Millennium Park 14 +12 3 Las Vegas, Strip Vicinity 1 -2 4 Chicago, North Michigan Avenue 2 -2 5 New York, Soho/Financial District NA NA 6 New York, Midtown West 5 -1 7 New York, Midtown East 24 +17 8 San Diego, Coastal 7 -1 9 Seattle, Downtown 23 +14 10 Waikiki, South 6 -4 11 San Francisco, Union Square East 9 -2 12 San Francisco, Union Square West 8 -4 13 San Diego, Downtown/Harbor Island 18 +5 14 Vancouver 16 +2 15 Boston, Copley 36 +21 16 Boston, Downtown/Charlestown 13 -3 17 San Antonio, Downtown/Riverwalk 31 +14 18 Las Vegas, Convention Center/UNLV NA NA 19 St. Catharines, Niagara Falls 22 +3 20 Puerto Rico, San Juan NA NA 21 San Diego, Point Loma/Shelter Island NA NA 22 Montreal 12 -10 23 Chicago, O'Hare Area 43 +20 24 Toronto, Downtown 25 +1 25 London, Bloomsbury/Marble Arch NA NA 26 Orange County, Disneyland Area 27 +1 27 Austin, Downtown 17 -10 28 San Antonio, Medical Center Area NA NA 29 Maui, Wailea/Makena 49 +20 30 Virginia Beach 26 -4 31 St. Louis, Downtown 47 +16 32 San Diego, East County NA NA 33 Washington, White House/Downtown 21 -12 34 Philadelphia, Downtown NA NA 35 Boston, Brighton/Brookline NA NA 36 Monterey 15 -21 37 Toronto, Markham 19 -18 38 Orlando, Universal Studios/Sea World 40 +2 39 Miami, South Beach 45 +6 40 New Orleans, French Quarter NA NA 41 Portland, Downtown NA NA 42 Orlando, Disney World Area 39 -3 43 Jersey City 37 -6 44 Buffalo, Niagara Falls 11 -33 45 Jackson Hole NA NA 46 Atlanta, Midtown NA NA 47 Hilton Head NA NA 48 Oahu, Diamond Head Area NA NA 49 New York, Midtown South 28 -21 50 Seattle, Renton/Kent NA NA About Priceline.com Priceline.com is the leading travel service for value-conscious leisure travelers. 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