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What’s New in New Orleans for Travelers?
Christmas New Orleans Style Each December, New Orleans hosts one
The Revitalized New Orleans Arts District
Travel stories abound here in one
of the country’s top holiday events –
This former neighborhood of abandoned
of America’s most historic cities. Here
Christmas New Orleans Style.
19th-century Port of New Orleans storage
are a few fresh ideas we recommend
Celebrating its 20th anniversary this year,
warehouses has been renovated to feature
for future articles:
Christmas New Orleans Style hosts
some of the country’s finest art galleries,
events including special fixed-price,
restaurants, and accommodations, in
Family Fun in New Orleans
four and five-course traditional Creole
addition to the new Smithsonian-affiliated
New Orleans is recognized annually by
A Yahoo! Travel and National Geographic
menus at the city’s top restaurants, free
Ogden Museum of Southern Art,
the top culinary and travel media as one
Traveler magazine online poll in 2004
nightly holiday music concerts in historic
The National WWII Museum, and the new
of the top food destinations in the world.
named New Orleans as the number one
St. Louis Cathedral, free daily cooking
90,000-square-foot Louisiana ArtWorks
There are more than 1,700 restaurants in
family destination in America, a distinction
demonstrations at Le Petit Theatre du
(scheduled to open in 2008).
the city, and many have long, storied
that surprised a lot of people – but not
Vieux Carré, historical character actors
The New Orleans Arts District has become
pasts. Of particular note, Galatoire’s, the
us! New Orleans is loaded with world-class
strolling the French Quarter, and so much
a travel destination unto itself.
classic traditional Creole landmark in the
family attractions, including the Audubon
more. From unique holiday shopping to
French Quarter, recently turned 100,
Aquarium of the Americas, Audubon Zoo,
sporting events (including the Allstate
The New Canal Streetcar Line
along with the Sicilian, Angelo Brocato’s
Entergy IMAX® Theatre and the Louisiana
Sugar Bowl) to one of the biggest and
In addition to the famous streetcar
Ice Cream Parlor. They join other
Children’s Museum. The $24 million,
best New Year’s Eve celebrations in
line on St. Charles Avenue, new locally
historic establishments such as Antoine’s
30,000-square-foot Audubon Insectarium
America, New Orleans should be at the
made streetcars returned to downtown
(est. 1840), Tujague’s (est. 1856),
is scheduled to open Spring 2008.
top of travelers’ holiday destination lists!
New Orleans in 2004 after a 40-year
Café du Monde (est. 1862), and others
These top attractions, combined with
absence. Running from the riverfront up
to create a culinary legacy on which a
New Orleans City Park and many other
Canal Street and linking up with Carrollton
contemporary Creole movement has been
wonderful family-friendly offerings,
Avenue, this important new line makes
built. If you like writing about (and
make New Orleans a fantastic family
affordable transit from the French Quarter
eating!) the best food in the world,
travel destination.
to City Park, the New Orleans Museum of
Culinary Landmarks
New Orleans offers stories and tastes
Art, the historic Pitot House, famous
found nowhere else.
aboveground cemeteries, and the New Orleans Fair Grounds a snap!
Celebrate All Year Round
America’s Most Romantic City
January
With this designation by some of the top
New Orleans: Cultural Mecca of the South
Sugar Bowl Festivities
magazines in America, New Orleans has
With more than 40 outstanding museums,
New Year’s Eve New Orleans Style
become a hot destination for weddings,
160 top-notch art galleries, the country’s
Twelfth Night (Carnival Season Begins)
honeymoons and romantic getaways.
only musician-owned symphony and
Come see what makes New Orleans
the oldest Opera House in America,
a lovers’ paradise.
New Orleans has a cultural venue to suit
February Mardi Gras
August
any traveler’s taste. Add to that the ®
March
Satchmo SummerFest
Harrah’s New Orleans Casino
Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture
St. Joseph’s Day Parades
White Linen Night
Harrah’s is the Gulf Coast’s top gaming
Garden at the New Orleans Museum of Art
St. Patrick’s Day Parades
Carnival Latino Festival
destination, featuring 100 table games and
and the Smithsonian-affiliated Ogden
2,900 slot machines. In addition to an
Museum of Southern Art, and New Orleans
expanded buffet and the acclaimed Besh
continues to offer new world-class
Steakhouse, Harrah’s Hotel has opened
attractions and old-world charm.
Tennessee Williams Festival
September
April
Deca Festival
French Quarter Festival
Saints Season Opener
Jazz & Heritage Festival
Cultural Season Premier
May
Fresh Arts Festival
Jazz & Heritage Festival
October
New Orleans Wine & Food Experience
Voodoo Music Experience
June
New Orleans Film Festival Art for Arts’ Sake
Seafood Festival Creole Tomato Festival
November
Cajun Zydeco Festival
Faulkner Words & Music Festival
July
December th
Go 4 on the River Festivities ESSENCE Music Festival Tales of the Cocktail Festival
Christmas New Orleans Style
next door, featuring Riche Restaurant with Chef Todd English.
What is the New Orleans Tourism Marketing Corporation, and What Do We Do? Formed as an economic development agency following the 1984 World’s Fair, the New Orleans Tourism Marketing Corporation is the City’s leisure travel promotion entity. NOTMC produces, directs, and places the City’s national leisure travel advertising campaigns annually – including print, radio, and TV – and conducts extensive, year-long public relations programs and Internet marketing. NOTMC designs and launches a major summer promotion; three simultaneous niche efforts aimed at cultural, family, and multicultural travelers; and a fall campaign promoting Christmas New Orleans Style. We also produce the City’s official travel publications: the New Orleans Official Visitor’s Guide, a free visitor guidebook containing $2,400 in coupons; Museums New Orleans; The Navigaytor and the Christmas New Orleans Style guide. We also produce and manage NewOrleansMuseums.com, HearNewOrleansMusic.com and NewOrleansOnline.com, the city’s official leisure tourism website.
How Can NOTMC Help You with Your New Orleans Travel Features? If you’re writing about New Orleans,
excellent tours. Our experience has been
let our staff of experienced local
that journalists taking our trips come to
journalists help you find the story you’ve
the city expecting to find one story but
always wanted to write. We host unique
leave with many that they never knew
and memorable press trips, offer
were here.
comprehensive press kits, arrange special itineraries, schedule insider interviews,
At NOTMC, we realize that most people
provide high-resolution digital
identify New Orleans with Bourbon Street
photography, and can assist with travel,
and Mardi Gras. However, our team of
accommodations, attractions,
veteran journalists knows the city is so
transportation, and other arrangements.
much more. We make a point of giving
We also produce The Key to the City, a
insider travel experiences that highlight
pocket-sized media guidebook containing
all of the wonderful aspects of
special offers, so you can explore the city
New Orleans that locals appreciate and
at your own pace without an itinerary.
hold dear. Our list of media references is long and distinguished, and those who
About Our Press Trips Every year, the New Orleans Tourism Marketing Corporation offers a variety of fresh-angle press trips for qualified journalists. As a rule, our trips are complimentary, including airfare, accommodations, attractions, meals, and more, but for those media outlets requiring press prices, we happily arrange them. So there’s no excuse not to participate in one of NOTMC’s
have participated in our trips are quick to acknowledge that they are among the best, most professional, and most comprehensive offered anywhere. Won’t you join us for one of the most memorable and rewarding press trips you’ll ever take? Contact us today to get on the list for an upcoming media FAM. Or, if an individual visit is in the cards, you know who to contact!