Education Day Highlights from the The Savannah Foody Tour Company lead workshop "A Taste of Culinary Tourism - Savannah Style
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According to the US Travel Association, Culinary Travel Survey found the food traveler spends $1,194/trip. 1/3 of that is spent on food related activities.

The culinary traveller is younger, highly affluent, better educated, they visit museums and cultural sites and they choose destinations for food and wine experiences. They read specialized interest publications and may be more responsive to travel packages that focus on the uniqueness of a destination.

The culinarty tourist is in pursuit of unique, memorable, culinary esperiences of all kinds, often while traveling.

On the tour we visited:

• Wright Square Cafe
• Savannah Bee Company Honey House
• Lady and Sons
• Kitchens on the Square for cooking demonstrations
• Mom & Nikki's Soul Food
• Back in teh Day Bakery
• Leopol's Ice Cream
• Polk's Fresh Market
• The Distillery

River boat breakfast cruise - Innovation day

To start off the convention we all got on board the river boat for a morning cruise. We ate breakfast and then went out on deck to enjoy the sites. After the cruise we returned back to the hotel for a day of contests, information sessions and tradeshow booths. The room was a buzz.
Pat and John enoying the river after breakfast.

Joe, Eric and that guy from Ohio State....what is his name? Rob! yes, that is his name. He always wears the Ohio State clothing. He's hard to miss.

Our stomachs were full and we enjoyed getting to meet up with old friends and introduce ourselves to new ones.

The sun is just coming up. It was an early morning.

Good Night from the Marriot on the Savannah River.

Welcome to NAFDMA Georgia 2009

Randii shares a Big Idea for Farmers' Markets.

Learning more about mazes.

Check out the peddal carts.

Lots of great dessert vendors.

Scarlett and Mammy are leading the 'Gone with the Wind' bus. The food,events and retailing bus. They got into character tonight.

Registration opened today. Innovation day is tomorrow but there was a Tradeshow "sneak peak " tonight. Lots of vendors this year and some great displays. What's new? Farmers Golf.

It's all about name tags, registration packages, old friends....

Figuring out where you need to go.

Who's your tour guide? Jan Vala, Rob Leeds and Sue Roba.

Annie and Anna helping people find there way.