Do you anticipate your guests coming with or without cars? For those not driving: how do you anticipate they will get there, & how will they get around?
Many of our guests so far have been international travelers without automobiles. Once they arrive, a few different options are available to them. There are a few nearby taxi-cab companies and bus routes, but the best way to see Detroit is by bicycle. Our city is enormous, so often walking isn’t feasible. Driving in a car, even as a passeger, often doesn’t give you the chance to appreciate all of the gorgeous details and textures Detroit has to offer, so to that end we have on-site bike rentals. They’ve been incredibly popular.
Sounds pretty cool. Getting more and diverse tourists into Detroit seems like a great way to stimulate businesses and improve the city's image. On a related note, for those of you interested in things like urban development in Ann Arbor and Detroit, I highly recommend reading Motown to Tree Town. It's a great blog.
Thanks for the love, Ben! You're sending my pageviews through the roof!
ReplyDeleteWe should have an Ann Arbor blogger meet-up at Ashley's or some such magnet for beer connoisseurs. It would be nice to meet everybody. (I promise I'm not too weird, especially by UM grad student standards... ) Might even make a good fund-raiser for, say, the Chronicle or some such worthy cause.