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.

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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.

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