Activate Your Adrenaline With Tennessee's New Summer Website & Sweepstakes

Friday, June 01, 2012 - by Melanie Beauchamp


The Tennessee Department of Tourist Development announced the launch of a new summer website calling Tennessee visitors to “Activate Your Adrenaline in Tennessee This Summer.” The new site, www.summer.tnvacation.com, kicks the outdoor adventure theme into high gear and encourages travelers to take off, roam free and dive into outdoor adventure.

This dynamic new site was developed utilizing a vertical parallax technology which allows the user to scroll down and explore multiple facets of Tennessee’s outdoor adventure. Another interactive aspect is the Adrenaline O-Meter, which allows users to click the meter “relaxing to extreme” when searching Tennessee’s attractions and activities.

In conjunction with the new summer site, visitors can enter the Tennessee Department of Tourist Development’s “Activate Your Adrenaline” summer sweepstakes for a chance to win an outdoor adventure getaway to the Smoky Mountains.

The thrill-seeking grand prize getaway includes a three-night stay at Music Road Hotel in the heart of Pigeon Forge; Smoky Mountain Outdoors Whitewater rafting for four on the Pigeon River; Adrenaline pumping ride for four on ZYDRO by ZORB Smoky Mountains; Zip lining for two and a ropes course for two at Rafting in the Smokies; Family fun and outdoor adventure for four at Dollywood and Dollywood’s Splash Country.

The contest ends July 20. To enter, visit http://www.summer.tnvacation.com/contest/.

Complete contest rules are available at http://www.summer.tnvacation.com/contest/rules/.

Visitors to the site can also sign up for Tennessee Travel Tuesday Deals for weekly T3 deals and discounts across the State at tnvacation.com/t3/.

In a recent report from tourism and travel research company D.K. Shifflett’s & Associates, TDTD learned that Tennessee visitors are nearly three times more likely than the national average to participate in outdoor recreation. Visitors to www.summer.tnvacation.com will discover an interactive opportunity to explore all that Tennessee has to offer when it comes to real adventure. Tennessee’s 54 state parks, natural resources and outdoor beauty makes it the perfect setting to get out and enjoy the great outdoors. Rafting, rollercoasters, water parks, zip lines, off roads, fishing, hiking, whitewater rafting, kayaking, horseback riding and hang gliding are all ways to get outdoors and to get the blood pumping and the adrenaline flowing!

 For the latest tourism happenings in Tennessee, visit us at tnvacation.com, facebook.com/tnvacation, mytnstory.com or twitter.com/tnvacation/.



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