Biggest Beach Towel

Have you imagined a beach party?Many of the party animals may be very familiar with this new trend that has seeped in to modern day society.Beach parties are very common in the western countries and especially in island nations.Some of the travel operators and holiday organisers joined hands to hosta   beach party to promote tourism in the tourism destination.The Fig Tree Bay in Protaras has one of the loveliest beaches in the world.So Aeolos Travels and bookcypress.com wanted to actually bring the attention of the media and the world to this hot beach venue which can just enthrall and rejunevate the tourist.In order to increase the attraction  towards this beach resort and to put Cypress on the most favoured destination for tourism they decided to unveil a biggest beach towel during the beach party. Covering 1900 square metres of the sandy beach, the towel measured 64 x 31 metres and set the world record for the biggest beach towel.

 It took the efforts of 40 people to lay down the 1,055kg beast onto the white sands of Fig Tree Bay.They came up with the idea of the Beach Towel because they wanted to unleash something unique which also has some sort of a connectivity with the sun,sand  and sea.

So a towel was the best thought solution to reaffirm the chord with the sun,sea and sand as that was a beach destination. The towel is made of 100 per cent cotton, with 30 million metres of thread used in its construction. It was manufactured in both Cyprus and China and assembled by the Covotsos Boutique in Limassol over 18 days.There was even a washing label sewn in the towel which read  the bookcypress.com logo.The beach towel is blue in colour.

Aelos travelas executive admitted that the mayor Evangelou offered to use the towel absolutely free  as it was practically tough to stage  such an enormous event of this stature   on a blue flag  beach.

 The gigantic azure-blue towel was the focal point of the unique beach party organised by Aeolos Travel and bookcyprus.com at the beautiful beach of Fig Tree Bay in Protaras. The event was covered by a live radio link, provided by Energy radio 107.6, and featured competitions to win special prizes offered by the party’s organisers and sponsors.

The current record for the biggest beach towel has surpassed the previous record set in Hermossa beach,California in June 2006 in which the towel measured just 48 meters long and 23 meters wide.

  The celebrations lasted from morning until sunset where highlighted by an all day entertainment programme which included local traditional dances, live radio link by Energy radio 107,6 featuring special prizes offered by the organizers and their sponsors, musical performances by the Greek Hip hop band Ominus and Dj S and Mike Hadjimike with the Portuguese Bandulu Dub and live dancing performances by Antigoni Tasouri School of Ballet and Dance. 

As a memento of their Cyprus holiday every participant will have a small piece of the record-making beach towel sent to their home.The towel will be cut into small pieces and will be sent by mail to every person who took part in the project - including tourists who left their names and addresses at a special stand set up by the municipality. Sponsors of this event were the Municipality of Paralimni, Movie Couriers, Hummer Cars, Capo Bay Beach Hotel, Cyprus Airways, and CTO. Media sponsors were Sigma TV, Radio Energy 107.6 and City Free press newspaper. 

As the Mayor of Paralimni added that the event was a great publicity coup for Cyprus to garner the attention as a world class tourism  attention.So the  underlying objective of the setting the world record stands fulfilled

The Biggest Beach Towel was set by Cyprus Holiday makers at Fig Tree Bay in Protaras,Cyprus on June 12,2008.