Galveston, TX is alive and well. I was just there.
Stayed at the Galvez.
Typical tourist town.
RE: Galveston, TX is alive and well. I was just there.
Stayed at the Galvez.
Typical tourist town.
I don’t think the writer of the article denies that Galveston is a tourist town.
His explanation of the town’s demise is as follows:
The cause of Galveston’s demise is unique. It had become something of the Sodom and Gomorrah of the southern US. There was a large gambling industry there, some of it illegal, which was controlled by criminals.
In the late 1950s,Texas state authorities successfully attacked local organized crime. The regulated tourist trade could not replace the illegal business.
Galveston’s port and hospitality industries had begun to improve, but where trampled by the effects of Hurricane Ike in 2008. The event destroyed a large part of the city’s tax base, and set back the tourism industry once again.
IMHO, calling this city dead is a bit much. Just because it got hit by a hurricane which set its tourism industry back does not mean it is dead forever.