Louisville, KY - City Resources, Biz Networking for Women
Contacts - Movers & Shakers - Networking Contact or join these groups before your stay to mazimize your access to powerful networks.
Louisville Area Chamber of Commerce
Metro United Way Wings and Women's Initiative
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Kindred Healthcare Incorporated
Largest Industries
Louisville ranks as the 7th largest inland port in the United States. Greater Louisville is also an important center for local, state, and federal government agencies, which employ more than 71,000 area residents.
Recently, Louisville has emerged as a major center for the health care and medical sciences industries. Louisville has been central to advancements in heart and hand surgery as well as cancer treatment. Some of the earliest artificial heart transplants were conducted in Louisville.
The services sector is the leading economic sector in the region. In Greater Louisville, nearly 14,000 facilities employed 234,000 workers in 2001. Tourism leads the region's service industries; approximately 26,000 of these jobs are generated by the tourism industry in Jefferson County. Travelers spend nearly $1.2 billion a year in the county, and more than 880,000 convention delegates visited Louisville in 2000-2001.
Newspapers
Traditional
Kentucky Press Association | Courier-Journal | The News-Enterprise
Alternatives
Magazines
Kentucky Monthly | Kentuckiana Healthy Woman | Louisville Magazine
Business
City Guides
TV
3 - WAVE | 5 - WVHF | 7 - WBKI | 11 - WHAS | 15 - WKET | 21 - WBNA | 24 - WYCS | 32 - WLKY | 34 & 28 - WBKI | 41 - WDRB | 58 - WFTE | Insight Communications | Metro TV | The Louisville Home Zone
Business Resources
Elance - Outsourced freelancers for any type of work
Fedex-Kinkos - for any type of doc production, shipping
American Exress - for flight reservations, hotels, automatic flight insurance
Leisure
