Tours By Isabelle
 
 
Tours by Isabelle was featured on MTV's  "THE REAL WORLD" The Real World cast is guided thru neighborhoods which were devastated by Hurricane Katrina on The Post-Katrina Tour. Air Date. 8/11/10 The Tours by Isabelle segment starts 4.3 minutes into the episode.















 
Though many tourism-related firms are barely affected by Gulf oil spill, fishing and swamp tours are taking a hit by Matthew Albright, The Times-Picayune - June 2010
Two Years Later, Two Stories of New Orleans by Peter Greenberg - July 2009
Front page of the Wall Street Journal (PDF) - December 27, 2005
Disaster Tours Pass Ninth Ward And Fats Domino's House; 'It's Just Human Nature' - by Christopher Cooper

Chicago Tribune - May 7, 2006
Chicago Tribune: 8 great American cities, May 7, 2006

Isabelle's interview on NPR - May 2006
Isabelle's Post-Katrina City Tour is soon to be featured as part of a one hour documentary on the Flood of 1927 with parallels Hurricane Katrina's disaster, to be broadcast in Canada and the UK on the History Channel series: "Turning Points of History."
Tourism twist in New Orleans: hurricane tours
Storm damage becoming a major attraction; could help restore lost dollars - By Ron Mott, NBC News, msnbc.com, Dec. 28, 2005
 
CNN International: Jonathan Mann interviews Isabelle during a Post-Katrina City Tour on February 26, 2006
NBC Nightly News on December 28, 2005
Local NBC affiliate WDSU 10PM News - December 28, 2005
MSNBC.com: Tourism twist in New Orleans: hurricane tours - December 28, 2005
Tampa Tribune: 'Disaster Tourism' Begins To Thrive - December 30, 2005
Travel Weekly Katrina tours generate wave of interest ... and controversy by David Cogswell - January 3, 2006
Times Picayune January 5, 2006 & January 10, 2006
Daily Telegraph: Tourists queue for disaster trips in the ruins of New Orleans By Alec Russell - January 7, 2006
Take a guided tour, see a hurricane disaster up close - Houston Chronicle, January 19, 2006

Rough going for Big Easy operators showing Katrina devastation Janu - Travel Weekly, 9, 2006 - By David Cogswell

 

ELLE DECOR Goes to New Orleans - Elle Decor Magazine, 2010 - By Mimi Read

 

TheStar.com - Turning Points of History IX | High River Blues - The 1927 Mississippi Flood, August 29, 2007

PUBLICATIONS:

  • Featured on the Travel Channel in Arthur Frommer's Almanac of Travel: "Tours by Isabelle offers a totally unique type of touring which differs markedly from what you find on large bus tours... It's as Tiffany's is to the 5 and dime stores."
  • Recommended by FROMMER'S Travel Guides
    + Unofficial Guide to New Orleans
    + Portable New Orleans
    + Irreverent Guide to New Orleans
  • Recommended by FODOR'S Travel Guides since 1986
    New Orleans 2010, Ports of Call 2010
  • Eyewitness Travel Guide To New Orleans
  • Mapeasy's Guide Map To New Orleans
  • Insider's Guide to New Orleans (4th edition, page 172)
  • Featured in Vanguard Airlines' In flight mag Zoom
  • Featured in the April 8, 1991 issue of People Magazine "Tours by Isabelle receives high marks for it's small size and enthusiastic service."
  • Featured in the June 1998 issue of Atmospheres Magazine in the "Notes de Voyages" section published in France
 
 
 
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