KNOXVILLE – The Southeast Tourism Society has named the Tennessee Valley Fair one of the STS Top 20 Events of the Southeast for September 2018. Travel Industry Experts select 20 events per month and STS publicizes them throughout the United States through Southeast Tourism Society. The 2018 Tennessee Valley Fair is September 7-16.

Since 1919, the Tennessee Valley Fair has been dedicated to showcasing East Tennessee heritage, agriculture and the arts. The Tennessee Valley Fair is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that exists to celebrate and promote agricultural heritage, family values, and individual life skills in our community with an emphasis on youth development activities through exhibits, tours, and the funding of scholarships. The Tennessee Valley Fair showcases traditions of the past, emphasizes ingenuity in Tennessee through the products of the present, and supports the vision of the future in the areas of agriculture, trade, and industry.

STS, founded in 1983 and headquartered in Atlanta, Ga., is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting tourism to and within 12 states – Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.