Eat It and Like It—Savannah Food & Wine Festival Guide Fall 2014 | Page 8

DID YOU KNOW?

Fun Facts about the
Savannah Food & Wine Festival

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According to the Georgia Department of Economic Development, last
year’s event reported $1.8 Million
dollars spent by those who attended
the festival in economic impact to
the Savannah area. An estimated
$483,007 was spent on hotels and
lodging, $104,038 in retail sales,
and $195,774 was spent on food
and beverage.

Guests of the 2013 Savannah Food & Wine Festival
enjoyed over 9 thousand bottles of wine and spirits,
as well as 60 kegs of beer from all over the world.
This year’s event is shaping up to be double those
numbers.
Last year, approximately 350 volunteers traveled over
800 times from the Savannah Trade and Convention
Center, on Hutchinson Island, across the Talmadge
Bridge, just to ensure glasses were full at all times.

Over 51 percent of festival guests were visiting
from outside of Savannah, traveling from as far as
Hawaii, Australia, Europe, and Central America just
to enjoy the fun and festivities. Taking with them over
5 thousand GoVino souvenir glasses and spending
over 20 thousand in “wooden food coins” that were
exchanged for delicious tastes.

The signature event, Taste
of Savannah, required 4
box trucks, two refrigerated
trucks to house the supplies,
and 14,000 pounds of ice.

By Brittni Harrison
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