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Event Venues work in New Orleans
New Orleans draws demand for event space from more directions than most cities its size. There is the wedding trade, which pulls couples from across the South and beyond. There is the convention calendar around the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, which fills the warehouse and hotel adjacent spaces downtown. There is the local circuit of rehearsal dinners, family reunions, quinceañeras and corporate parties that runs through the neighbourhoods year round. The venues competing for those searches range from French Quarter courtyard spaces and Garden District mansions to converted warehouses in the Bywater and halls out in Metairie and Kenner. Paid search in this trade is bought by the larger venues and the booking platforms, which leaves the organic results open for a venue that publishes steadily about the rooms it actually has.
