It's New Orleans: Out To Lunch

According to the most recent official figures, around 18 million tourists now visit New Orleans every year. And they spend nearly nine billion dollars while they're here. Financial pundits keep telling us here in New Orleans that we need to diversify our economy, but nobody is telling that tourists and more and more of them keep on coming. This, in turn, employs more and more New Orleanians. But critics say the downside to this kind of growth is that work in the hospitality industry is low paid and there is no career path to success. Try telling that to Warren Reuther. Around 55 years ago, Warren and his brother-in-law built an RV park for tourists. To try and make a little extra money out of their visitors, they started organizing tours of the city. When the tours started to get popular, the boys bought their own tour bus. Today, their family owned company, Hospitality Enterprises, is made up of nine different businesses, including New Orleans Tours, Jean Lafitte Swamp and Airboat Tours, the Airport