It's New Year's Eve, and between tonight's celebrations and tomorrow's Sugar Bowl, the city of New Orleans is pretty well packed.
Hotel occupancy is 90-95 percent with visitors to the city here to ring in 2026, watch Georgia and Ole Miss compete in the Sugar Bowl, or both, says New Orleans and Company CEO Walt Leger.
"The big visitation days are New Year's Eve, New Year's Day, and then things slide off into the weekend," said Leger.
New Year's Day also marks the anniversary of a terrorist using a truck to run over and kill 14 pedestrians on Bourbon Street, but Leger says the city is not going to let that define the celebration.
"I think people are committed to not letting a single act of terror diminish and dim that light," he said.
Leger said the Sugar Bowl/New Year's events are expected to have an economic impact in the area of $200 million.





