BOSTON, Aug. 30, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, (www.bso.org) located in Lenox, MA, has teamed with radio show travel expert Stephanie Abrams to create a unique opportunity to extend the season for visitors and residents of Berkshire County to enjoy the magnificent grounds of Tanglewood, nestled in the Berkshire Mountains of Western Massachusetts, two hours drive from Boston and 2 1/2 hours from NYC. The Stephanie Abrams Travel Expo at Tanglewood will take place September 14th and 15th, 2007, from 10am to 4pm, rain or shine, in Tanglewood's Hawthorne Tent and is free to the public, including free parking in the Ozawa parking lot adjacent to the tent area. The two-day consumer travel show, to which travel professionals and group planners have been invited, will feature a variety of domestic and global tour operators, destinations, hotels, resorts and cruise lines invited by Abrams to present their unique offerings for travelers with Tanglewood providing the magnificent backdrop for this special event. Additionally, valuable travel prizes will be will be awarded including a choice of stays at Loews Hotels' Universal Orlando Resorts Portofino Bay, Hard Rock Hotel Royal Pacific Resort, Skyroll(r) Luggage, one-year membership in Air Ambulance Card and other travel prizes.
In addition to the travel exhibitors at The Stephanie Abrams Travel Expo at Tanglewood, free musical performances will take place during the day on September 15th. Performers include the world renowned concert pianist, Ana Maria Trenchi De Bottazzi and award-winning students from the Germaine Pinault School of Music, Manhasset, NY.
Kim Noltemy, Director of Sales and Marketing for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, explains, "Tanglewood is one of the great summer vacation destinations. We thought it would be wonderful to have a travel expo on site after the season concludes so we can get both travel planners and consumers thinking about their plans for next summer. In many cases, travelers who come to the Berkshires in the fall have not attended concerts at Tanglewood during the summer," Noltemy notes. "The travel expo is a good way to have them experience the beauty of Tanglewood and give them the vacation planning information they need. Also, it is an opportunity to collaborate with our colleagues in the Berkshires and promote the destination."
When asked about the collaboration with radio travel expert Stephanie Abrams, Noltemy explains that Abrams "is a travel industry leader and a huge advocate of the Berkshires. With her love and knowledge of the area and her national radio and television presence, she is the perfect person to create a successful event."
In planning for the event, Abrams explains, "I've invited suppliers in the travel industry in keeping with my mission of introducing travelers to destinations, hotels, resorts, cruise lines that I believe deliver the quality of experience that is inspiring, uplifting, enhancing and enriching, and from which travelers return home knowing they are somehow better people than when they left home. The exhibitors at the Stephanie Abrams Travel Expo fit that mold," Abrams concludes.
Exhibitors include: Cunard Cruise Line, Norwegian Coastal Voyage, Avalon Waterways, Globus Family of Brands, Dooley Vacations of Ireland, Homeric Tours, Central Holidays, Saxony Germany Tourism, North of Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau, Berkshire Visitors Bureau, Cranwell Resort, Eastover Resort, Jiminy Peak, Crowne Plaza Pittsfield, Red Lion Inn and Porches. As part of the exhibit festivities, Traveling Feet, a nationally syndicated radio show on which Abrams appears weekly as the show's travel expert, will broadcast live from the Hawthorne Tent where the exhibition is taking place.
Abrams, rated one of the 100 Most Powerful Women in Travel by Travel Agent Magazine, is host of the nationally syndicated radio show, Travel WITH Stephanie Abrams, heard weekly on the Business TalkRadio(r) Network on Sunday, appears as the weekly travel expert on radio's Traveling Feet, and hosts the monthly television travel special, JetSet411. Abrams' award-winning website, www.sabrams.com, provides travel information, travel tips and details on the Stephanie Abrams Travel Expo at Tanglewood.