Civil Rights Tourism and 14 Other Tourism Trends This Week

Sarah Enelow

August 28th, 2016 at 12:37 PM EDT

Photo Credit: National Center for Civil & Human Rights, Location: Atlanta GA, Design Architect: Freelon Group, Architect of Record: HOK, Exhibit Design: Rockwell Group National Center for Civil and Human Rights

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These are the tourism trends we were talking about this week.

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