Restaurant tours are part of busy tourism season
Guided walks and riverboat rides are also on the calendar.
Guided walks and riverboat rides are also on the calendar.
Local tourism officials will offer a tasting tour of four restaurants on the second Saturday of each month beginning in April.
The Flavors of Rome tours are scheduled for 11:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. Up to eight people can be accommodated on each tour.
Nic Diaz, marketing assistant for the Greater Rome Convention and Visitors Bureau, said four restaurants will be featured on the tours in a progressive meal format. The cost is $35 and tickets are available at the bureau or online. The restaurants included will change monthly.
The food tour is only part of the efforts this spring by the GRCVB to familiarize Romans and visitors with the community. The tourism board met Wednesday.
Walking tours of downtown will take place on the first Saturday of each month at 10 a.m. beginning in April and continuing through October.
Guided tours of the rivers on the Roman Holiday are scheduled on the first Sunday of each month from April through September at 2 p.m.
The cost for the walking tours and boat rides will be $12 for adults and $5
for children 12 and under.
The walking tours and the Flavors of Rome tours will all start from the Downtown Welcome Center at the rear of the Rome Area History Museum, facing the Town Green.
Communications Director Kristi Kent told the board that in addition to the regularly scheduled Roman Holiday tours, special tours will be scheduled at different
times through the summer including a World War I Centennial Tour April 6 and a Painting Party tour May 27
In other news, RomeFloyd Parks and Recreation Executive Director Kevin Cowling told the board playgrounds are being completed in Ridge Ferry, Parks Hoke and Banty Jones parks in the city along with Alto and Etowah parks in the county.
A replacement for the original steamboat-themed playground at Ridge Ferry Park is already under construction.
Cowling also said his department was going to start a Movies in the Park series at Ridge Ferry
Park starting April 21 with “The Secret Life of Pets.”
Cowling said recreation officials are working with Jason Broome of Public Animal Welfare Services to have an adoption event, along with information about spay and neuter programs at the park in conjunction with that event.
Ann Hortman, GRVCB’s sales and marketing director, explained that more volunteer ambassadors are needed for the Atlantic Coast Conference tennis tournament at the Rome Tennis Center at Berry College April 24-30.
People can go online at www.rometenniscenter.com to sign up for volunteer times.