New Orleans

Known as the Big Easy city, New Orleans is the epicenter of party goers during the seasonal gatherings of Mardi Gras, visitors best come prepared to stay up late and drink to you drop, for you adult visitors without children. New Orleans is a wealth of historically conceptualized city fun filled with adventurous attractions to meet everyone’s excitements. Amusement parks for the children, Casino’s for the adults, and theme parks for the families, New Orleans is well equipped as a visitor’s paradise.

For The Family packed visitors, New Orleans offers Carousel Gardens Amusement Park, Cool Zoo, and Story land theme parks. Harrah's New Orleans Casino and the Treasure Chest Casino are both in walking distance from your hotels. If you’re interested in history, then visitor will find their informational quest filled by The Cabildo, Le Petit Theatre, Old U.S. Mint, and Williams Research Center (Orleans, 2016). If you’re seeking a quite walk with delectable flavorings, then, the city center is for you. Visitors may feast on traditional meals within the city centers French Market.

Some of the top well known attraction in New Orleans consist of National WWII Museum, Frenchman Street, Jackson Square, and the St. Louis Cathedral.  Sports and outdoor attractions will include stadium fever with the New Orleans Saints, horseback riding, fishing charters, as well as fine art observations in the city center museum.  Romanticism can be induced through cultural and culturally diverse meals from Romantic Eateries, Romantic Cocktail Bars, and Romantic Attractions (Orleans, Romantic Getaways, 2016). New Orleans is known for its cultural uniqueness, thus, specialized attraction only found in New Orleans such as 5-Star Voodoo Bone Lady Tours LLC, AIA New Orleans Center For Design, and Airboat Adventures(TM), LLC share the unviewed sections of New Orleans through their observational tours using plans and boats. Adventurous visitors can indulge in the new life that is exhilarating yet exhausting, profound but professional, and dirty with cleanliness. Visitors can visit the all too familiar bourbon street excitements.  Adventuring to New Orleans is a fabulous vacationing and tourism spot.

Huston

Fun in the Bayou City trip seekers will find a plethora of activities to indulge in while adventuring Houston's downtown excitements, attractions that grip the imaginations, as well as budget fitting shopper ally and nightly room rentals. Traveling to Houston Texas is a wonderful opportunity for families and the singles scene, both will be rewarded with countless things to do. Things to do would include the all well-known fabulous strip of restaurants meeting all appetites, historical and futurist museums, as well as the adventurous outdoors that include parks trails and natural settings. For the family enthusiast with cranky kids, spark their excitements by visiting the water parks, Zoo’s, or perhaps a nature guided tour. You adults will enjoy the night life that is jammed packed with thrills and excitements ranging from clubbing, romantic restaurants, or a comforting stroll overlooking pictorial sceneries triggering your imaginations. 

Houston Texas has a very rich history stemming from the 1early 1800’s, and, those seeking to understanding its historical perceptive may visit informational sites such as the Multicultural Art and Museum, The Heritage Society Complex, and the Texas Independence and Architecture Tour. Just beyond the city limits, adventures such as Armand Bayou Nature Center, Bishop's Palace, and world’s tallest war memorial the San Jacinto Monument can be enjoyed for its Americanized contributions. Money saving tours can also be enjoyed by all and would include admissions into the Children's Museum of Houston, Space Center Houston, and Miller Outdoor Theatre for free music and relaxation.

       If you enjoy the rodeos, than Houston Texas is the ideal place to visit for you cowboys and cowgirls. The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo features riding, roping, and a lot of bucking. In addition to the average trip shopping experience, visitors can create unique shopping experiences that can only be made at Houston’s super mall. What many will find in Houston that you may not find on any other trip, is the chance to venture on a cruise ship while golfing the open ocean, or, perhaps visit the Oilers, Rockets, and the Aero’s play a home game against your favorite league team.  At the end of the day, pamper yourself at one of many fine spas and fitness centers located throughout Houston Texas before you engage in the next day’s activities and adventures.

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White Sands Beach-- Destin Beach

    Destin is located on Florida's Emerald Coast, where is just three hours drive from Troy. Lots of Troy University students will choose Destin beach to spend their holiday. The reason is not just that Destin is very near to us. The most important reason is Destin has the most beautiful, soft sands in the world, and its clear green water is also unforgettable.

Almost every month, I go to Destin to enjoy the sun and the beach. I have to say it's kinda bored if you stay in a small town like Troy. 

     The way from Troy to Destin is all winding path and less traffic. Sometime some animals like dears may show up in the road at night, which is extremely dangerous. You should pay more attention when you're driving and follow your GPS carefully because it is very easy to miss the correct fork in the road.

Fun activities at the beach include five star beach hotels and resorts, water sports such as parachuting, surfing among others.

     Other activities will include visiting the marine park, adventure parks, amusement parks, dolphin cruises which are extremely exciting to kids and people of all ages, dinner cruises and plenty of performing artists and concerts.

     For travel tips carry light clothes during summer which is the best season to visit the beach. Travelers must also have a reliable taxi contact to ease travel in the city or hire one's own vehicle. It is also important to carry a significant amount of cash as many places along the beach only accept cash. This will be backed up by credit and debit cards (ensure they are internationally accepted). It is also important to carry a form of registration for identification and security purposes.

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   Social media sites have a critical role to play in terms of the manner in which consumers interact with digital news. Engagement can be achieved in social media but news is not the primary motivation for the consumers to visit the social media sites like Facebook.

    At the very outset, I have disagreement that people visit the social media for news. It is important to understand that people who regularly visit social media sites are most likely interested in the socialization or other leisure aspect linked to the site. This is precisely why entertainment news is taking up the major proportion of the attention of the visitors. If a person was to be really interested in news, he/she would rather visit the news website directly.

   But there is agreement that there is more engagement when it comes to news through Facebook. For instance, in the news article it is reported that 50% visitors shared，reposted news stories, images or videos and 46% discussed a news event. This engagement helps people to feel more in control of things and can be very helpful in the event of a major crisis like a terrorist attack. 

   People can write a post, share their views, make a video and make it reach a larger audience through social media sites. The traditional news delivery model was more of a one-way track in which the news reporter would read the news and the audience would just listen and discuss among themselves later. 

   Now, the social media sites have provided a better platform for engagement. For instance, a person can report that he is a part of the kidnapped group of tourists in a hotel and this could prove as the first source of more information on the event. Or a person can even tweet or write to the Prime Minister or President about a certain pressing issue and get a response.

   It is safe to conclude that social media websites result in high level of engagement but they are not having visitors who want to read serious news. The type of news that is being viewed on social media is entertainment and sports. Social media sites like Facebook have an important role to play when it comes to spreading an important message, finding missing persons or reporting a critical event that has not been otherwise found out by the mainstream media.  They must not be viewed as an important place for business news or financial news.