Laissez le Bon Temps Rouler! The streets look like the party city of old as New Orleans’ first full-dress Mardi Gras since 2020 dawns Tuesday.
It will be a day of back-to-back parades through the city and masks against COVID-19 required only in indoor public spaces.
He expected similar crowds on Fat Tuesday — a state holiday — if the weather is good. Not to mention Ash Wednesday, when people following the Catholic tradition of meatless Lenten fare are out for seafood. Hotel occupancy, though, is expected to be about 66%, down about 19.5% from 2020, said Kelly Schultz, spokesperson for New Orleans & Co., the official sales and marketing organization for New Orleans’ tourism industry.Parades were canceled last year because officials realized that tightly packed crowds in 2020 had created a superspreader event, making the city an early Southern hot spot for COVID-19.
“Also the coronavirus was sort of looming over us,” even though its presence wasn’t yet known in New Orleans, Houston said.
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