Waltham, Tourist Magnet?

""Our goal is to make Waltham the premier visitor destination in the state," Dan Yaeger, marketing consultant to the Waltham Tourism Council, said in an interview at the Waltham Chamber of Commerce earlier this year. "That's what we're aiming for.""

I spent four years going to high school in Waltham, and another 14 living just south of it. Its a nice enough place, but its main tourist attraction is the now defunct Waltham Watch Co. factory. They want to divide the city into four historic districts. I can't even begin to imagine exactly how they plan to break it down. The website has a schedule of events, but none of the links in the header lead anywhere. Far be it for me to criticize experts, but maybe hiring the guy who ran the Marlborough tourist bureau into the ground was not the best idea.