DEDO's Tourism Office May Want To Focus A Bit More Upstate.......

We love our resorts but how about some positive PR for our beloved City of Wilmington?

(WDEL) Amy Cherry reports ~ Conde Nast: Wilmington ranks 8th in U.S. among unfriendly cities

A reader survey by Conde Nast Traveler magazine has ranked Delaware's largest city as the 17th most unfriendly city in the world and eighth most unfriendly in the nation. The magazine notes one reader says he would rather avoid Wilmington, a city only necessary to visit on business. Another reader said Wilmington doesn't have any charm and needs some work.

The survey ranks Newark, New Jersey, as the most unfriendly city in the world. The friendliest city in the world is Florianopolis in Brazil. The report comes after Wilmington was ranked America's most dangerous city by Parenting Magazine last year.

You can see the full list of friend and unfriendly cities by clicking here

(News Journal) Andrew Staub also reported ~ Wilmington No. 8 on the list of unfriendliest cities in US - I’m not your friend ... I live in Wilmington

“Wilmington, the state’s largest city, didn’t appeal to our survey tak­ers as much as Delaware’s better known beach areas,” Wilmington’s en­try read. “One reader says he ‘would rather avoid’ the city that is only ‘neces­sary to visit on business.’ Other readers say Wil­mington is a place with ‘not much charm’ that ‘needs work.’ ” Councilwoman Loretta Walsh called that “B.S.” She’s often seen resi­dents help others in need of di­rections and wit­nessed neighbors come to the aid of strangers, she said.

Walsh playfully won­dered whether there was a broader plot against the city. How else could tiny Wilmington end up as Par­enting magazine’s most dangerous city last year and as Men’s Health mag­azine’s sixth-angriest city in America in 2006? “There’s a conspiracy against our town, and I’m going to put a bounty out on whomever is doing this to us,” Walsh said, laugh­ing as she set the reward at $25 for the identity of the perpetrator. Last year, in a search for the pornography cap­ital of America, Men’s Health ranked Wilming­ton No. 3 on its list of smuttiest cities. The mag­azine based the list upon several X-rated statistics — including the number of DVDs purchased, rent­ed or streamed, the num­ber of adult entertain­ment stores and the rate of online searches for por­nography.

 

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