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Oregon's biggest city has 'long way to go' repairing its rep
Portland’s “badly damaged” reputation – marked by months of destructive protests, a homeless crisis and record year of homicides – is hurting the standing of Oregon’s ...
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October 30, 2021
Travel Portland, the city's tourism promotion group partly funded by taxes, presented data to the City Council and mayor this week showing the city has declined to its “lowest levels” of being a likely destination for delegates to attend conferences. Just 64% of surveyed tourists said they would visit Portland again.
“There’s an old old saying, ‘It takes a lifetime to build a reputation and you can ruin it in an instant.’ That’s true of cities, as it is people," Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler said in response to the Travel Portland data. “And we’re just going to have to commit to that long term process of improving the safety and the livability and the economic prosperity of the city.”
The liberal city had long been known nationally for its ambrosial food scene, craft breweries and nature-loving hipsters. But last year, it became the epicenter of racial justice protests following the murder of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis.
Lol bet they will blame those 'white nationalists', or Trump.
I've lived there twice, in the late '80's, and again in the late '90's, but I never saw any 'ambrosial food scene' just a bunch of hippie con artists making crappy 'neuvo cuisine' and trying to rip off suckers for weird 'enchiladas' or something. Some good seafood joints but little else.
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