On the back of increasing awareness and urgency over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexic0 (which President Obama has recently taken responsibility for) it would seem that many tourists are considering alternative R&R destinations for fear of oily Gulf beaches; however, hotels across Alabama, Florida, and Mississippi are trying to assure people that their beaches are just fine.
President Obama has also chimed in to express his concern over the potential deflected tourism: “Americans can help by continuing to visit the communities and beaches of the Gulf Coast,” he said at a press conference, and also that: “I was talking to the governors just a couple of days ago, and they want me to remind everybody that except for three beaches in Louisiana, all of the Gulf’s beaches are open, they are safe and they are clean.”
Yet seemingly, despite encouraging words from hotel representatives and the President of the United States, people are still discouraged from visiting Gulf beaches on account of the spill. “We are just devastated to be rolling into Memorial Day,” said one hotel rep over the decline in reservations, “it’s horrible.” We might wonder if said hotel rep was equally devastated by the environmental disaster itself.
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