Media Trips
The Kentucky Department of Travel assists journalists with feature stories and coverage by providing group and individual press trips or by providing self-guided itineraries for their area of interest.
Press Trip Oct. 13-17, 2009
Guy Getaway - Racing, Bourbon and a Good Cigar
This media tour is truly a guy trip for multiple reasons.
The excitement of thoroughbred racing and a view of the horses up close in the paddock at a spectacular track, sipping excellent varieties of bourbon where it was created, and a puffing on a hand-rolled cigar. Add the crisp, cooler days of fall in splendid color, surrounded by the rolling hills of the Bluegrass State and there’s no place better to get away with a few chaps.
You’ll spend an afternoon at Keeneland Race Course where part of the movie Seabiscuit was filmed, sample a variety of bourbons along part of the Kentucky Bourbon Trail, tour the Kentucky Gentleman Cigar Company and play some golf surrounded by some of the most scenic landscape anywhere. And more.
This trip is limited to a maximum of six journalists.
1.) Download Registration Form >>
2.) Provide a copy of assignment letter.
Submit information to: Marge Bateman by email, marge.bateman@ky.gov
Press Trip March 22 - 25, 2010
Kentucky’s Northern Shore
Note Schedule Change: Because of the enthusiastic response and problematic scheduling issues, the Kentucky Department of Travel has rescheduled the Kentucky’s Northern Shore media trip from September to March. The trip (description follows) will be Monday, March 22nd through Friday, March 25th maintaining plenty lead time for the Civil War Sesquicentennial. The change will also allow more compelling views of the river and shores for a greater appreciation of its influence throughout Kentucky’s history--particularly the formidable challenge it presented in the Underground Railroad movement. The days of the week are the same. The trip is limited to a maximum of six writers.
For millennia the water way that the Native Americans eventually named the “Ohio” served as a guide for prehistoric animals, the Shawnee and Cherokee and eventually European settlers who had sailed west across the Atlantic to find a new land. The river’s east/west route from the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains to major settlements in the west that served as points of departure for western exploration (including the Lewis and Clark expedition), Kentucky’s towns and cities that were founded along the river have had a significant role. When it gained statehood in 1792, Kentucky was already pivotal in commerce, transportation, culture and geopolitics for an array of ethnic groups in the fledgling nation.
Join the Kentucky Department of Travel as we show you the charm, cultures, history and scenic beauty of this north shore that forms more than 650 miles of Kentucky’s border with four other states. From historic Maysville, founded by frontiersmen including Simon Kenton and Daniel Boone and later visited by Harriet Beecher Stowe, to Louisville where evidence of human presence dates back to 1,000 B.C.E. and the first European settler came to the area in 1669. We’ll experience the formidable challenge that the river presented for slaves on their trek to freedom.
We request the following information to enable us to make your trip as productive as possible:
1.) Download Registration Form >>
2.) Provide a copy of assignment letter.
Submit information to: Kimberly Clay by email, kimberly.clay@ky.gov