[StBernard] St. Bernard Tourism officials at EPCOT

[Westley Annis]

Members of the St. Bernard Parish Tourist Commission and St. Bernard Parish Office of Tourism recently participated in the EPCOT International Wine & Food Festival in Orlando, Florida representing St. Bernard Parish.  St. Bernard’s participation was an opportunity to share our unique culture and authentic heritage with travelers from all over the world.  The EPCOT International Wine & Food Festival is hailed as one of the largest and longest-running food and wine festival in the world.  At this years festival the Louisiana Exhibit reached 485,000 guests, distributed over 100,000 beads and 45,000 recipe cards.  

 

Representing St. Bernard Parish as Tourism Ambassadors were members of the Tourist Commission, Claire Henderson, Alberta Lewis, Lauren Gibson, Gayle Buckley and Tourism Director, Gidget McDougall.  Exhibiting for St. Bernard Parish was George Pound from Domino Sugar with daily sugar demonstrations and Dot Benge and Bertin Esteves from the Los Islenos Society with storytelling of the Islenos Culture.