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Travel experts Don't believe the New Year's terrorist attack in New Orleans will affect tourism in the coming months.
“Recognizing that everyone has different ideas about what's safe, it would be a shame to cancel plans to visit the Big Easy because of a terrorist attack,” Clint Henderson, editor of The Points Guy, told FOX Business.
Army veteran Shamsududdin Jabbar was driving, officials said Truck through the crowd on Bourbon Street In the first hours of New Year's Day, 15 people were killed and dozens more were injured. Jabar, who died at the scene of the attack, was an American citizen living in Texas.
The suspect died after jumping out of his pickup truck and exchanging gunfire with responding officers, police said.
“Bourbon Street is now open and the city is relying on tourism dollars for the next big events in town, including Mardi Gras, the Super Bowl and Jazz Fest,” Henderson told FOX Business. “The best thing you can do to support the community is to keep your plans to visit.”
Revelers walk along Bourbon Street in the French Quarter on Mardi Gras on February 16, 2010 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Patrick Semensky/Getty Images)
According to Henderson, it's a good time to visit, given that “local authorities will be particularly vigilant.”
Henderson expects tourism to take a hit in the short term, but hopes that “local businesses won't have to wait for long-term improvements in visitors and spending.”
Similar to Henderson, Gilbert Ott, head of partnerships at travel rewards platform godsavethepoints.com, told FOX Business that destinations like New Orleans “bounce back very quickly after incidents.”
Suspect identified as FBI investigating terrorist act after Bourbon Street attack
“I know the international community will rally around this historic city like never before, thanks to the excitement New Orleans is attracting around the world,” Ott said. Months in advance – for major events like the Super Bowl, or events like bachelor and bachelorette parties or 40th birthday parties, as you should.
Local authorities in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. on January 1, 2025, police checkpoints on and around Bourbon Street after a vehicle plowed into New Year's Eve crowds in a tourist area. (Pat Little/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Daniel Green, co-founder of Faye Travel Insurance, agrees that “people are unlikely to change their appetite for travel or change their behavior around travel.” He believes events like the Super Bowl and Mardi Gras will be as crowded as previously expected.
Still, Green noted that travelers who might be nervous can always take advantage of things like “cancellation for any reason (CFAR)” insurance, which allows people to cancel their plans within predetermined time periods. recover a large amount of insurance. The investment you have made in your trip
Meanwhile, the investigation is still ongoing. The FBI is investigating the attack as an act of terrorism.
Louisiana's top attorney has vowed to prosecute those believed to be involved in the Bourbon Street terror attack.
FBI investigators arrive at the scene where a white Ford F-150 pickup truck crashed into a work elevator after it drove through a crowd of New Year's revelers on January 1, 2025 in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. (Matthew Hinton/AFP via Getty Images)
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Louisiana Attorney General Liz Morrill wrote on the X Post: “In Louisiana, we have the death penalty and we will carry it out!
Morrill told Fox News there was evidence that multiple people were involved, but declined to elaborate.
FOX Business' Bradford Betts contributed to this report.