We know a lot of people have put their Labor Day plans on hold.

Labor Day weekend is not as important from an economic standpoint as it used to be.

As long as I've been in the tourism business, 30 years, people who come to the state say one thing a great deal, 'I had no idea Alabama was such a beautiful state,'

Will we have a traditional Labor Day weekend -- absolutely not, ... No one with any soul will not be tempered by what we are going through.

There is the misperception that all of coastal Alabama suffered the same type of damage that impacted Mississippi, and that's not the case,

For the most part, these stories are told with brutal honesty and I think tourists from outside the South are impressed and surprised at the candor of these exhibits.