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Each year, Atlanta welcomes 35 million domestic and overseas visitors (give or take a few). Moderate temperatures, robust landscapes, a sundry of Atlanta suburban neighborhoods, nearly 100,000 hotel rooms to choose from, and because the city is a hub for music, culture, and sports, Atlanta is top choice for thousands of trade-shows, conventions and tourists alike. Atlanta’s cultural diversity, demographic variety, and religious multiplicity make for Atlanta being the ninth largest metropolitan area in the United States. If there’s something you want to do, you can find it…in the “ATL”!
Atlanta has oodles of restaurants, a lively nightclub and bar scene, great prospects for singles, is LGBT friendly, has an eclectic mix of theaters, museums, and the arts, as well as a vast selection of shopping venues and educational institutions. Atlanta sports and recreation and the many Atlanta tourist attractions are both exciting and inviting, and wonderful points of interest and visitor destinations.
The city of Atlanta has grown by leaps and bounds from the small settlement located at the intersection of two railroad lines when it began in 1845. Today, Atlanta is headquarters to many national and international corporations including Delta Airlines, the Coca-Cola Company, Turner Broadcasting, The Home Depot, UPS, American Cancer Society, Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and Cox Enterprises, just to name a few. Atlanta’s Gross Domestic Product forecasted for 2010/2011 was well over $200 billion, and these days, the city once called “Terminus” has been nicknamed “Dogwood City”, “The City Too Busy to Hate”, and “Hollywood of the South”. Entertainers, celebrities, professional athletes, millionaire business people, journalists, diplomats, and civil activists all call Atlanta home.
Atlanta operates a little slower than LA, Vegas or New York, however, there is never a shortage of things to do, places to visit, festivals to attend, people to meet, and opportunities to just chill out and relax. Atlanta has big city accouterments but small town feel. The streets are clean and lined with dogwoods, cherry blossoms, and Bartlett Pear trees; “Atlantans” are friendly and open, the food is good and “southern”, and the hospitality is unmatched. The cultural and ethnic diversity is immense and there is most definitely a place for everyone.
Atlanta is a wonderful place to visit, an excellent locale for business and entrepreneurship, an economical get-a-way, a haven for culture, arts, and refinement, a safe and family-friendly environment to visit and explore, and at the end of the day, Atlanta is one of the best places in the world to live!
