Frommer’s lists Detroit among underrated tourist destinations
Frommer’s editors profile a handful of cities they deem under-rated
tourist destinations–Detroit included alongside Lyon, France and
Bratislava, Slovakia.
Frommer’s editors profile a handful of cities they deem under-rated tourist destinations–Detroit included alongside Lyon, France and Bratislava, Slovakia.
Excerpt from article:
Few travelers (or, for that matter, travel writers) consider Detroit
a Midwestern “destination.” The city certainly doesn’t have Chicago’s
global cachet, or Minneapolis’s reputation for being squeaky-clean. And
indeed, a shrinking U.S. auto industry — among a number of other
factors — has negatively affected Detroit. Once called the Paris of
the Midwest, the city today is a quintessential underdog, a label that
the locals relish.
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