Louisville has scope for improvement despite growing tourism scene

Thursday, December 13, 2018

Louisville is a city reignited. In the last decade it has grown exponentially, all thanks to the effort and vision of many in the community. Louisville is now recognized as one of the best places in the country to visit and live in.

The city is vibrant and invests in millions of dollars for upgradation works, renovations and convention facilities and making them state-of-the-art and unique in every way.

Louisville has two convention centers. The Kentucky International Convention Center, located downtown has been recently re-opened after a two-year $200+ million dollar renovation and expansion that reflects the vitality of Bourbon City. Nearly 6,000 downtown hotel rooms compliment the new convention space making downtown Louisville a prime meeting venue.

Louisville’s downtown arena, the 22,000-seat KFC! Yum Center, offers avant-garde space for concerts and large gatherings in an emerging arena district with a growing number of restaurants, bars and distilleries. From major hotel brands to various independent names, Louisville boasts of over 20,000 rooms in over 100 hotels.

If you like arts, Louisville is among the handful of U.S. cities with a professional full-time orchestra, opera, ballet, children’s theatre, dinner theatre and Broadway Series. The Speed Art Museum and the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft both offer free Sunday admissions. All of these, besides a world-class zoo, an amusement park, beer and wine trails, historic homes, confectionaries as well as ghost tours. There are various other attractions too. Louisville, however, has plenty of rooms for improvement to attract more visitors.

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