SHREVEPORT, La Phase 3 of reopening from the COVID-19 pandemic means most businesses and events can increase capacity to 50 percent. It s a boost for local tourism after the lost year of 2020, with festival season on the way. This opens us up to new events that haven t been able to happen to this point, said Stacy Brown, President of the Shreveport-Bossier Convention & Tourist Bureau. It also allows us to increase attendance to some of those already planned.
Gov. John Bel Edwards order to further reopen the state appears to come too late for Holiday In Dixie, which traditionally opens festival season in April. But Mudbug Madness is eager for its comeback on Memorial Day weekend.