[StBernard] St. Bernard Tourism officials at EPCOT

[Westley Annis]

One member of the St. Bernard Parish Tourist Commission says to another..."hey, I have a great idea on how we can go to Disney World on the taxpayer's tab.  How's that? the other responds.  Easy, we'll say we're going as part of the Louisiana exhibit at the Epcot Wine and Food Festival and we're trying to route visitors to travel to St. Bernard parish as they leave Disney World."

Sure, I think taxpayers will buy that as money well spent.  Oh, and the Epcot Wine and Food Festival ended October 31, 2008.  Strange we're only hearing about this now some 10 weeks after.

DEB


-----Original Message-----
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.