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Ghosts of Christmas Past Ghost Tours - Press Release
PRESS RELEASE - For Immediate Distribution Dated: November 6th, 2007 ### Ghosts of Christmas Past Ghost Tours By Appalachian GhostWalks and Ghost Tours TRICITIES, Tennessee - Winter is on it's way and Christmas is fast approaching. Now is the time when we start to turn our attention to brightly colored lights, decorations, and other festive holiday activities. Appalachian GhostWalks and Ghost Tours is offering "Ghosts of Christmas Past" in select locations across the Southern Appalachian region now through January 15th, 2008. The company invites you to start a new holiday ritual this year and bring your whole family, or tour group on a Christmas adventure to learn the history and origins of our most beloved Christmas Traditions with Appalachian GhostWalks' Holiday Ghost Tours. There are seven different tours in the Northeastern Tennessee mountains presently available to choose from all located just a short drive from Dollywood, Ober Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge, and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. These include haunted and historic Erwin and Jonesborough - Tennessee's oldest town, Blountville, Greeneville, and Rogersville; in Johnson City, formerly known as "Johnson's Depot" two different tours include the "Little Chicago GhostWalk" as well as the campus of East Tennessee State University with ghostly stories of hauntings as told by the faculty and staff from 1911 forward through present day. In Southern Appalachian Highlands they offer their oldest tour known as the "Historic Abingdon Virginia GhostWalk", which features a package to encompass discounts on a play at The Barter Theatre, including the upcoming performance of "A Christmas Carol", the Abingdon Carriage Company offering nostalgic carrige rides of the historic district, to be followed by one of Appalachian GhostWalks romantic and enthralling, lantern-lit tours - perfect for a holiday getaway. Each of their historical tours offer a small piece of a much larger puzzle as your very own Certified Ghost Hunter Guide and Historian weaves a chilly tale of our region's vast cultural heritage, and history coupled with true, spine-tingling ghost stories. Catering to both couples, as well as larger groups, one simple phone call to their knowledgable staff will help you create a memorable Tennessee Vacation designed specifically for you and your travel companions. Appalachian GhostWalks is proud to have won a Merit Award at the Pinnacle Awards early in 2007 as presented by the Northeast Tennessee Tourism Association and the company continues to grow. A spokesperson for the company announced that visits to their award winning website for this year had grown more than four hundred percent above this time last year with over five million hits. On September 1st, 2007, Appalachian GhostWalks and Ghost Tours was voted one of the top five ghost tour companies in America by Haunted America in New Orleans, Louisiana. Offering a wide variety of vacation packages featuring many types of activities and area attactions to include both day and night activities there is something to keep you and your travel companions enchanted and entertained during your visit to the mountains. Travel discounts are available on accommodations for recreational vehicles and tourists including a wonderful choice of very historic and sometimes haunted bed and breakfasts, camping, white water rafting, caving, bike and horseback riding, a local gem mine, a day at the spa, planetarium shows, barge and carriage rides, area museums and exhibits, visits to local water parks, skiing, seeing a live play, or a concert, casual and fine dining, with more on the way. Now offering so many ways to save and make the most of your visit to the Southern Appalachian Mountains, Appalachian GhostWalks invites you and that special someone, or group to join them in saying, "Tennessee Sounds Good To Me"! Visit them online at www.AppalachianGhostWalks.com for additional information, or for a SPOOK-tacular good time please call (423) 743-WALK (9255) for reservations. ###
Very truly and hauntingly yours... Michael Combs, Assistant Director, Appalachian GhostWalks Website: www.AppalachianGhostWalks.com Email: Info@AppalachianGhostWalks.com Address: P.O. Box 153, Unicoi, TN 37692 Office Telephone: (423) 743-WALK (9255) Mobile Telephone: (423) 943-6477
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