Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Local Peachtree City Businesses participate at Atlanta Dogwood Festival

The PCTA has worked to gather items from local businesses that will showcase Peachtree City in a series of giveaways geared to drive visitors to the Peachtree City booth, located inside the International Village of the Dogwood Festival. Giveaways range in value and include airplane rides, tickets to a concert at “The Fred,” overnight hotel stays, tickets to The Great Georgia Air Show, complete weekend packages, and gift bags and coupons from local businesses. These giveaways will be promoted, throughout the Dogwood Festival, on the PCTA social media sites, including Facebook and Twitter, and on Dogwood radio, a radio station dedicated strictly to the Dogwood Festival that will stream info about the Dogwood Festival all weekend long.
Peachtree City will be the only municipality represented at the 74th Annual Atlanta Dogwood Festival and the Peachtree City booth will offer an interactive way for guests to view Peachtree City. Guests can choose to shoot for a hole-in-one on a 10-foot putting green, watch a streaming video that offers a birds eye view of the 90 miles of golf cart paths, or sign up, on site, for the PCTA social media sites, including Facebook and Twitter. Guests will also be able to vote for their favorite decorated golf cart, the Dogwood Festival’s Mobile Art program, at the Peachtree City booth. In addition, two thousand Peachtree City promotional items and over seven thousand pieces of Peachtree City marketing materials will be distributed among the 200,000 guests in attendance.

“Providing an interactive booth for guests to enjoy was only half the battle, the other half is driving guests to the booth” said Kai Wolter, Vice Chairman of the Board, The Peachtree City Tourism Association. “We had to be creative and immediately thought about getting local business involved to donate items that could be included in a series of giveaways.”
The PCTA would like to recognize and thank the businesses that have contributed to the giveaways, Dolce Atlanta Peachtree, Falcon Field, Hilton Garden Inn, Holiday Inn Hotel and Suites, Wyndham Peachtree Conference Center, Sleep Inn, Sugarfoot Yarns, The Avenue’s, The Frederick Brown, Jr. Amphitheater, The Great Georgia Air Show, The Guide, Air Spruce, Bulldog Supply, Canongate Golf Clubs, Carrabbas, Commemorative Air Force, Georgia Shrimp Company, Partners Pizza, Pascal's Bistro, Peachtree City Golf Cars, Peachtree City Tennis Center, and Yknots.

Monday, April 12, 2010

Peachtree City Mayor will present award at Dogwood Festival

Guests of the 74th Annual Atlanta Dogwood Festival will vote for their favorite decorated golf cart, and Peachtree City’s Mayor Don Haddix has been invited to present an award to the winner.

Golf Carts will again be decorated by local consulates and organizations, and during the festival hours, will be parked throughout the park. Guests will be encouraged to vote for their favorite decorated golf cart at the Peachtree City booth, located inside the International Village. The golf cart receiving the most votes will be honored, and receive an award presented by Peachtree City’s Honorable Mayor Don Haddix, at a ceremony on Sunday April 18, 2010.

“When Brian Hill, Executive Director of the Dogwood Festival, reached out to us to participate, we knew that it would be a perfect match,” said Don Haddix, Mayor of Peachtree City. “Peachtree City is well known across the country for our path system and golf cart use, that and we couldn’t miss this opportunity to be involved in the mobile art program.”

Monday, April 5, 2010

Peachtree City participates in the 74th Annual Atlanta Dogwood Festival

The City of Peachtree City will partner with the Peachtree City Tourism Association (PCTA) and the Development Authority of Peachtree City (DAPC) to showcase Peachtree City during the  74th Annual Atlanta Dogwood Festival beginning April 16, 2010. The Dogwood Festival is a three-day event that April visitors to Atlanta have enjoyed for the past 74 years. The PCTA and the DAPC are both dedicated to spreading awareness and encouraging conventions, groups, and leisure visitors alike to visit Peachtree City.

The 74th Annual Atlanta Dogwood Festival is the third oldest arts festival in the country and will take place on April 16, 17, and 18, 2010 in Atlanta’s Piedmont Park. The three-day event is free to the public and is filled with art, live entertainment ranging from music to comedy, a variety of food offerings and the fantastic Atlanta spring weather. The festival is the only fine arts festival in Georgia to be recognized as being in the top 100 in the nation and is expected to draw close to 200,000 visitors.

Last year, the Atlanta Dogwood Festival celebrated the diversity of the Atlanta community by adding an International stage to its offerings and bringing the city’s international organizations and consulates on board to create mobile art in the form of decorated golf carts. The program was so successful and well received by attendees that this spring the stage will expand into an International Village.

The mobile art will also be repeated this year and guests will be encouraged to vote for their favorite decorated golf cart at the Peachtree City booth, located in the International Village. The golf cart receiving the most votes will be honored and presented an award, by Peachtree City’s Honorable Mayor Don Haddix, at a ceremony to be held Sunday April 18, 2010.