The Big Apple celebrates its season of entertainment offers for the third time, also wishing to recover tourism affected by Covid19.
The city of New York launched this Tuesday its winter campaign called Winter Outing with four consecutive weeks (until February 13) of offers in hotels, restaurants, theaters and museums to attract tourism with the message that new york is open.
the new mayor Eric Adams was in charge of giving the starting signal in a presentation in the emblematic skyscraper of the Empire State Building, which was built in just over thirteen months and alone represents the ability of this city to get ahead in difficult times like the one it is now experiencing with the coronavirus pandemic, recalled the mayor.
More of 500 restaurants have joined this campaign where they offer menus to 29, 39 or 49 dollars, while the 22 Broadway theaters (including here the famous musicals like Aladdin The The Lion King) offer a formula of “two for one”.
They have also joined 134 hotels of all ranges that offer different discounts, as well as museums and amusement arcades in general with special prices during these weeks, in a campaign that already lives its third edition.
“Tourism is the heart and soul of this cityIt’s what allows the magic to work. Why would one want to go elsewhere?” said the mayor, who praised the enormous ethnic diversity of all the city’s neighborhoods: “We are going to sell this product that we have in our city.”
“Why the hell would you want to go to Paris? Better come here this is the place to be and to enjoy”, said the mayor, and the message of competition with Paris was later repeated by several of the attendees, leaders of restaurant, hotel or theater associations.
The mayor emphasized economic importance of the tourism sector and leisure, which brings, he said, $72.8 billion to the city’s economy and that in 2019, the year before the pandemic, generated 400,000 jobs.
Therefore, enhance the tourism is a way to “energize the city”, he said, insisting that all establishments, both hotels such as theaters, museums and hotels, comply with Covid regulations, a significant message when New York is just beginning to see a decrease in the trend of infections after having exceeded 80,000 a day in the last days of the year.
“We are not going to allow covid-19 to define us, but we will be the ones who define our future”, concluded the mayor.
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