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As the City’s leisure travel promotion agency, we can make writing your next Crescent City travel article more rewarding

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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!