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Knoxville’s Dogwood Arts Festival & Rossini Festival named “Top 20 Events” by the Southeast Tourism Society
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Officials with the Knoxville Tourism & Sports Corporation (KTSC) announced today that the Dogwood Arts Festival and the Knoxville Opera’s Rossini Festival were selected as “Top 20 Events” by the Southeast Tourism Society (STS) for the month of April and May, respectively.
The Dogwood Arts Festival, which celebrates the arrival of spring and the blooming of dogwood trees, will celebrate its 47th year in 2007. Attendees may walk through more than 70 miles of trails, which will open on April 7, in Knoxville and Oak Ridge lined with pink and white dogwood trees. Activities also include parades and live music that will conclude at the end of April.
The Knoxville Opera’s Rossini Festival is a celebration of Italian heritage including opera, jazz, classical music and dance. Taking place May 4-6 in Knoxville’s downtown and Market Square, this festival will also feature Italian and Southern Mediterranean cuisine, wine tastings, art exhibitions, and a special children’s area with entertainment, fun and games. More than 65,000 attendees ventured to downtown Knoxville’s Gay Street for the Italian street fair in 2006.
“We are thrilled to have two of Knoxville’s largest and most unique festivals chosen as “Top 20 Events,” said Gloria Ray, KTSC’s President and CEO. “The Dogwood Arts Festival is a Knoxville tradition that displays East Tennessee’s beautiful spring season, and the Rossini Festival is a fantastic display of diversity and Italian culture in the community.”
According to William T. Hardman, President and CEO of STS, the “Top 20 Events” publication receives wide exposure in print, media, web, television and radio in the United States and Canada with more than 400 of these outlets receiving “Top 20” listings. Additionally, the Atlanta-Journal Constitution prints the “Top 20 Events” as a regular quarterly feature of its travel section.
Founded in 1983, the STS is dedicated to the promotion and development of tourism to its member states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. The membership includes state travel offices, attractions, hotel, motels, resorts, convention and visitors bureaus, airlines, car rental agencies, newspapers, magazines and other travel-related organizations. Its corporate partners are Amtrak, Madden Preprint Media, Morrison Printing Company, SMITH, Southern Living Magazine, TRIPmedia Group and USDM.net.
