Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - May 3, 2010 - Gaylord Entertainment Co. (NYSE: GET) today provided the following information on the flooding in Nashville, Tennessee:

Over the last 48 hours, Middle Tennessee and in particular Davidson County, Tennessee has experienced a historic series of storms that resulted in record rainfall and now widespread flooding.

Gaylord Opryland Resort, which sits adjacent to the Cumberland River and is protected by levees approved by FEMA and built to sustain the 100 year flood standard, suffered flood damage in the early hours of Monday, May 3, 2010 as the river rose to levels that have not been seen in the last 50 years and breached the levees. The resort is currently closed.

The Company reports that it is too early to determine how long the hotel will be closed, but it is reasonable to conclude that the hotel will likely be closed for several months. Gaylord will assess the damage as soon as it is feasible to do so. The Company carries business interruption and property insurance associated with flood damage with an aggregate limit of $50 million.

The first priority for the Company, however, was and is the safety of its guests and employees. At approximately 8:00 PM Central Time on Sunday, May 2, 2010 the Company fully evacuated approximately 1,500 hotel guests and employees by bus to higher ground to a shelter near Gaylord Opryland Resort. Fortunately, the evacuation occurred long before the levees were breached and all the guests and employees of the resort are safe.

Over the next 24 hours, the Company will be determining how to arrange for the conventions that are booked for the next several months as well as a remediation plan once the full extent of the damage has been determined. In the meantime, the Company has decided that it is prudent to withdraw its 2010 financial guidance, but it is likely that financial results for Gaylord Opryland and thus Gaylord Entertainment will be impacted for the next two quarters.

The Company will be releasing its first quarter 2010 earnings release later today but is cancelling the earnings call scheduled for Tuesday, May 4, 2010, so the Company can focus its attention on its customers, employees, and building a remediation plan. The Company will update shareholders and other constituents frequently as more information becomes available.

Gaylord Opryland Offers Extraordinary Environments for Successful Meetings

The energy of Music City is at its highest level at Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center, the largest non-gaming facility in the continental United States. Located in Nashville, Tenn., this award-winning property offers attendees a truly unique and extraordinary meeting experience.

Gaylord Opryland Resort is one of the most well-known and award-winning resorts in the country because of its unsurpassed beauty, coveted hospitality and world-class dining options in more than eight different restaurants. Underneath three spectacular glass-domed atria lie waterfalls, thousands of tropical plants and flowers, the worlds largest indoor river, fabulous shopping, a world-class spa, plus superior on-site entertainment.

Currently, the resort boasts 2,881 remodeled guestrooms and 600,000 square feet of meeting and exhibition space. Plans are underway to pump $400 million into an expansion, adding 400,000 square feet of meeting and exhibition space and a new 400-room luxury all-suite tower. With a proposed completion date of 2011, the expansion will offer convention customers and meeting planners a total of 3,281 guestrooms and more than one million square feet of meeting and exhibition space.

Gaylord Opryland Resort is recognized as one of the top five convention properties in the country because of our commitment to excellence and because our expansive spaces allow us to hold meetings and conventions of every size under one roof, said Pete Weien, senior vice president and general manager of Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center. We believe that, with the expansion and our continued commitment to being the best in the business, we will be able to offer even more benefits to our customers and will take this property to a whole new level of excellence.

As the flagship property in Gaylord Hotels best in class line of resorts, Gaylord Opryland Resort has been the recipient of many of the most prestigious awards in the hospitality industry, including a six-time recipient of Meetings & Conventions Magazines Gold Key Elite award for the resorts commitment to excellence, as well as a three-time recipient of that publications Gold Platter Elite award for its outstanding food and beverage offerings. Gaylord Opryland Resort also belongs to Meetings & Conventions Magazines Gold Key Hall of Fame, which honors properties winning Gold Key awards for at least 12 years. In addition, the resort is the 2008 Corporate Meetings and Incentives Paragon Award winner and has been honored by Corporate & Incentive Travel magazine, MeetingSouth magazine, Association Meetings magazine, Medical Meetings magazine, Successful Meetings magazine and Meeting News magazine.

For more information on meeting space or the resort, please call 1-888-999-OPRY (8772) or visit www.gaylordopryland.com.

ABOUT GAYLORD OPRYLAND NASHVILLE
Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center " the largest non-gaming in-hotel facility in the continental United States " is known for providing superior products and services to the meetings and convention industry. Winner of numerous prestigious awards including the Paragon Award from Corporate Meetings and Incentives in 2008, as well as the coveted Gold Key Elite Award in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007 and Gold Platter Elite in 2004, 2005 and 2006. Gaylord Opryland Nashville is the flagship property of the Gaylord Hotels brand owned by Gaylord Entertainment (NYSE: GET), a leading hospitality and entertainment company based in Nashville, Tenn. For more information, visit www.gaylordentertainment.com or www.gaylordopryland.com.

Media Relations Contacts:
Ann Dee McClane-Bunn, (615) 458-2896,
amcclane-bunn@gaylordhotels.com
Kim Keelor, (615) 458-2877, kkeelor@gaylordhotels.com