Travel writers invited to visit Detroit, discover it’s nothing like what they’ve read
Twenty-eight travel writers were invited from across the U.S. and Canada by Travel Michigan and the Detroit Metro Convention& Visitors Bureau to get a taste of what Detroit really is. Excerpt:Houston weekly newspaper writer Wilson Calvert had read there were
no chain restaurants in Detroit — “and they made it sound as if there
was nothing at all in the city,” he said. “And here, you have all these
cool places.”Lisa
Singh, a freelance writer from Washington, D.C., saw something else:
“I’m impressed with the rootedness of the people here,” she said.Read the entire article here.
Twenty-eight travel writers were invited from across the U.S. and
Canada by Travel Michigan and the Detroit Metro Convention&
Visitors Bureau to get a taste of what Detroit really is.
Excerpt:
Houston weekly newspaper writer Wilson Calvert had read there were
no chain restaurants in Detroit — “and they made it sound as if there
was nothing at all in the city,” he said. “And here, you have all these
cool places.”
Lisa
Singh, a freelance writer from Washington, D.C., saw something else:
“I’m impressed with the rootedness of the people here,” she said.
Read the entire article here.
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