Your work related trip needn’t be a stressful endeavor, especially if you are coming to New Orleans. Of course your mind should be primarily focused on the business aspect however, this is a very exciting city so why don’t you include some cultural and leisure activities within your itinerary?
There’s guaranteed to be something fun happening during your visit, but we recommend you to plan your business trip around this great 5 events: Sorted by upcoming
1. Satchmo Summer Fest
If you are planning to travel to New Orleans in August you can not miss the 11th Satchmo Summer Festival (August 4-7, 2011), a free festival featuring live music and second line parades honoring Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong birthday party. The festival provides a complete program that combines music, food, cocktails and seminars.
Furthermore, for the first time this year, fans will enjoy ‘Satchmo in the Shade’: new tends will cover stage areas and provide relief from the August heat.
2. New Orleans Seafood Festival
The Seafood Festival celebrates New Orleans food culture with some of the city’s finest restaurants and catering companies contributing. In addition to great music and awesome cuisine from many famed, local restaurants and caterers, there will be artist’s stalls featuring some of the most talented artists in the area.
This Festival will take place in Lafayette Square in downtown New Orleans, September 9, 10 and 11, 2011, and is free and open to the public.
3. Prospect.2 New Orleans
Founded in 2008 by Dan Cameron, Prospect New Orleans is the premiere biennial of international contemporary art in the United States. In its inaugural year, Prospect.1 New Orleans featured 81 artists from around the world who exhibited at 24 venues throughout the city, occupying a combined 200,000 square feet of space spread widely over miles of the city’s eclectic and historic neighborhoods.
Prospect.2 was postpone one year and is scheduled to open to the public from October 22, 2011 till January 29, 2010.
4. Mardi Gras
New Orleans Mardi Gras is one of the most renowned Carnival in the world. Celebrations are concentrated for about two weeks before and through “Fat Tuesday” (Mardi Gras in French), the day before Ash Wednesday. Usually there is one major parade each day and, many days, there are several large parades. The largest and most elaborate parades take place the last five days of the season in the Uptown and Mid-City districts and follow a route along St. Charles Avenue and Canal Street, on the upriver side of the French Quarter.
In the city of Jazz, Cajun and Creole cooking, and the French Quarter, Mardi Gras has the greatest economic and cultural impact of any event in the city. Hotel rooms are traditionally 95% filled during Mardi Gras weekend, so if you are planning to come around these days, you should arrange your stay early enough.
5. Zurich Golf Classic
Golf lovers can also enjoy a fantastic Golf tournament with Zurich Classic of New Orleans PCA Tour. The tournament takes place in April 23-29, 2012 in the great TPC Louisiana. The event is accompanied with delicious menus and music. One day ticket costs around 75$ and gives fans access to exclusive, elevated bleacher seating and umbrella tables on holes 13, 14, & 17, food and beverages as well as an air-conditioned tent to chill out while watching all the action.
Take advantage of your business trip to stay a couple of days more and get into the cultural life New Orleans offers. Life’s not only about working!