I have found two good sites for European visitors to New York City and Atlanta, and a site for American visitors to Paris.
Europeans to Atlanta:
http://travel.yahoo.com/trip-view-1483370-tara_travel_agency_s_best_of_atlanta_tour
Europeans to New York City:
http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Travel-g60763-c96990/New-York-City:New-York:Activity.Advice.For.First.Time.Visitors.html
Americans to Paris:
http://www.eurovacations.com/EVWeb/Custom_SavedItin.jsp?fromlist=Y&sourceid=Evac&theme=Evac&utype=webuser&dest=Paris&item=Pkgs/2008011502200828
When I was comparing sites, I noticed that the European travellers had a lot more details about where they were going to go, and mostly weren't the big "Grand Canyon" type of places. The Georga trip to Atlanta mentioned places like the aquarium, art museum, and other places (probably) only popular to locals. But the trip to New York City focused on the Brooklyn Bridge, Manhattan Bridge, WTC site, Statue of Liberty, and Ellis Island. Atlanta has a lot to offer what Europe does not necessarily. Atlanta places emphasis on all of the minor places for visitors like the aquarium. Europeans seem to like the USA for its techological improvements and innovations, and treat the Americans like an oddity that needs to be visited and seen. So the Europeans put less focus on places like Gettysburg, Lexington & Concord, Old Ford Niagara (which you'd think the French would want to come see), and other battlefields. This is in comparison to Americans flocking to battlefields all over Europe.
The people going to Europe, in specific a trip to Paris, was focused on the Versaille Palace and Gardens. Also they offer a Seine River dinner cruise. I find this funny because it is built outside of Paris (so the King could escape the city, which was probably a good idea for the beheadings of his ancestors later on). The European travel packages focus on more national, manmade, and historical landmarks. The people travelling to Europe definitly want to discover the Europeans during their respective hay-days. So going back to Rome and seeing the Coliseum, Versaille in France, and Big Ben in London. They also want to go see the Acropolis in Athens. Europe offers Americans the ability to be in a time and era that the Americans could never be a part of, and a heritage that they could never be a part of.
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Is that Atlanta website/travel agency oriented toward Europeans?
ReplyDeleteOn battlefields, You're on to something there, but here's an interesting tidbit. Europe has its reenactors just like we do, and I ran into a bunch once in a costume shop in London. You know, Waterloo and all that stuff. But the shop owner told me that some English do Civil War reenactments, as in the AMERICAN Civil War. Still thinking about that one.