Food and Beverage Vendors

Thank you for your interest in the Great Smoky Mountain Hot Air Balloon Festival. This is an electronic agreement and by selecting the booths, you are validating and approving this agreement electronically.
 

The County Health Inspector will require all food vendors to have a valid health permit & abide by current health codes for preparing and serving food. Food Vendors are required to have a minimum $1,000,000 (One Million Dollars) general liability policy and name the Blount Partnership as Additional Insured on the policy. Non-profits must provide a sales tax-exempt form.
 
Each booth is required to have a 2A 10 BC fire extinguisher and comply with Fire Marshal Codes and Regulations
 
All food vendors are required to have a Mobile Food Vendor Permit with the City of Townsend.
  
DO NOT SEND CHECKS – PAYMENT WILL BE PROCESSED ON THE CREDIT CARD ON FILE IF YOU ARE ACCEPTED. 
 
**NO REFUNDS – THIS EVENT IS RAIN OR SHINE!

Join us this August for a summertime spectacle, when professional balloonist light up the evening sky with a beautiful balloon glow and spectacular tethered rides. The sky will be filled with a spectrum of color like never before, against a backdrop of a breathtaking Tennessee Smoky Mountain sunset, in beautiful Townsend, Tennessee! Learn More at GSMBalloonFest.com

You must collect and report Tennessee sales tax and pay the health inspection fee. The County Health Inspector will require all food vendors to have a valid health permit & abide by current health codes for preparing and serving food.   Vendors are required to have a minimum $1,000,000 (One Million Dollars) general liability policy and name the Blount Partnership as Additional Insured on the policy. Non-profits must provide a sales tax-exempt form.
 
Food Vendors are required to have a Mobile Food Vendor Permit with the City of Townsend.
 
Hold Harmless Agreement and Agreement to Terms and Conditions
The undersigned hereby releases and agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Blount Partnership, its employees, agents and assigns, the Townsend Cades Cove Gateway Alliance, GSM Hot Air Balloon Festival Committee, and the volunteers for the same regarding any and all liability for damages or injuries to persons or property which the undersigned, his or her agents or employees may sustain while participating in the GSM Hot Air Balloon Festival except where such damages or injuries resulting from the gross negligence of the Blount Partnership.  Such indemnification shall include reasonable attorney’s fees and costs.
 
I have read and agree to all the regulations stated above and in consideration of participating in the GSM, Hot Air Balloon Festival agree to be contractually bound to the same.