The riot put Detroit on the fast track to economic desolation, mugging the city and making off with incalculable value in jobs, earnings taxes, corporate taxes, retail dollars, sales taxes, mortgages, interest, property taxes, development dollars, investment dollars, tourism dollars, and plain damn money.

It also is a great location for wine and beer tourism.

Obviously we know about the gambling industry, but what about entertainment companies or tourism?

Let me give you an example; a 1 family house in one of the nicest areas in Montevideo (Capital) go from anywhere in the 150k to the 500k and even higher.On the other hand a piece of land by the shore side [Costa de Oro] (Lots of tourism) goes from 10k to 40k cash.To build a nice place to rent out is not that expensive either, you can build a 3 or so small apartments maybe 2B/1B for about 10k, or you can buy Steel Framing prefabs from 5k to 30k depending on sizes and deals.Now for the good part.

While Tampa is more industrial, Orlando lives and dies on its tourism.  

I graduated from CSU with a degree in Natural Resource Management and another in Recreational Tourism.

I continued on to finish my degree from Colorado State University in Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism.

They have completely re-branded their tourism campaign and they are known now as the "All Star Island" because they are reaching out to high end tourists.

What does their tourism industry look like, in terms of domestic or international travel?

Hello Eric -As someone who has personally and directly been involved with over 700 Airbnb reservations in my own properties, and over 100 in other people's properties, I have played around with the models quite a bit and have found many successful (and not so successful) methods of operating a short term rental.Let me start with this:One mistake that freshman short term rental or Airbnb hosts make is gearing their rental towards tourism only...