Savor the sights, sounds and tastes of the Big Easy’s premier retail center. Riverwalk Marketplace – located along the Mississippi River in the heart of downtown New Orleans – is comprised of more than 100 local and national retail shops, restaurants and attractions. Adjacent to the New Orleans Morial Convention Center (which attracted nearly 900,000 conventioneers in 2011), The Audubon Aquarium of the Americas and Harrah's Casino, Riverwalk is directly next door to the newly renovated Port of New Orleans Julia Street Cruise Terminal, which is projected to increase cruise travel to one million passengers in 2012.