Exhibit 99.1

Ryman Hospitality Properties, Inc. Reports First Quarter 2015 Results

– First Quarter Net Income of $4.5 Million –

– Total Adjusted EBITDA Increase of 11.0 Percent to $73.8 Million –

– Hospitality Adjusted EBITDA Margin Improves 200 Basis Points –

– RevPAR Increase of 4.0 Percent and Total RevPAR Increase of 1.8 Percent –

– First Quarter Adjusted FFO of $58.9 Million –

– Updated Guidance for 2015 –

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (May 6, 2015) – Ryman Hospitality Properties, Inc. (NYSE:RHP), a lodging real estate investment trust (“REIT”) specializing in group-oriented, destination hotel assets in urban and resort markets, today reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2015.

Colin Reed, chairman and chief executive officer of Ryman Hospitality Properties, said, “The first quarter of 2015 exceeded our expectations despite some unusual business interruptions in our Hospitality segment during the first part of the quarter. I was pleased with how well the hotels—and Gaylord Opryland in particular—managed through these challenges. To that end, our Hospitality segment delivered an Adjusted EBITDA margin increase of 200 basis points compared to first quarter of 2014. This margin growth should position us well for the remainder of the year and illustrates the strong performance and ability to drive rate we have seen from our hotels for the past several quarters.

“Turning to bookings, first quarter 2015 production was within our expectations given that the fourth quarter of 2014 was one of the strongest production quarters in our company’s history. While first quarter 2015 gross room night production trailed first quarter 2014, net room night production for all future years was favorable by 5.1 percent over the first quarter of 2014, with net production for the remainder of 2015 and especially 2016 shaping up to be strong.”

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First Quarter 2015 Results (As Compared to First Quarter 2014) Included the Following:

For the Company’s definitions of RevPAR, Total RevPAR, Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted FFO, as well as a reconciliation of the non-GAAP financial measure Adjusted EBITDA to Net Income and a reconciliation of the non-GAAP financial measure Adjusted FFO to Net Income, see “Calculation of RevPAR and Total RevPAR,” “Non-GAAP Financial Measures,” “Adjusted FFO Definition” and “Supplemental Financial Results” below.

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Operating Results

Hospitality

For the quarter ended March 31, 2015, the Company reported the following:

Property-level results and operating metrics for first quarter 2015 are presented in greater detail below and under “Supplemental Financial Results.” Highlights for first quarter 2015 for the Hospitality segment and at each property include:

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Reed continued, “Overall, our hotels had another solid quarter, and although Gaylord Opryland had a rough start to the year, we believe that from March forward, this property will continue the trajectory it was on in 2014. I also want to highlight the standout performance Gaylord Texan posted this quarter in spite of some abnormal winter weather that caused a slight disruption to operations. The first quarter of 2015 was this property’s best first quarter in its history, even outshining the first quarter of 2011 when Dallas hosted the Super Bowl and the hotel experienced significant benefit related to this event. We are pleased to see the strong demand from both group and transient customers in this market, which is a trend that we believe is likely to continue for the foreseeable future.”

Entertainment Segment

For the quarter ended March 31, 2015, the Company reported the following:

Reed continued, “Our Entertainment segment has posted yet another quarter of impressive double-digit growth in both revenue and Adjusted EBITDA. This growth was realized even as the Ryman Auditorium undergoes its renovation, which further speaks to the tremendous demand we are seeing for our assets and the unique entertainment experience they foster. We look forward to an on-time completion of that project near the end of the second quarter in time for the height of the tourism season in Nashville.”

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Corporate and Other Segment Results

For the quarter ended March 31, 2015, the Company reported the following:

Development Update

Subsequent to the end of the quarter, the Company announced the opening of the newly-renovated 192-room AC Hotel Washington, DC at National Harbor (located near Gaylord National) on April 23, 2015.

In addition, the Company announced a $20 million meeting facility expansion at Gaylord National. The new facility will include a 24,000-square-foot ballroom building offering 16,000 square feet of meeting space overlooking the Potomac River, the Woodrow Wilson Bridge and Old Town Alexandria. The investment will also include an expansion of an open-air events space to be used for the hotel’s holiday programming. The new ballroom facility is scheduled to open in fall 2016, while the open-air events space is scheduled to open in September 2015.

Dividend Update

The Company paid its first quarter 2015 cash dividend of $0.65 per share of common stock on April 16, 2015 to stockholders of record on March 31, 2015. It is the Company’s current plan to distribute total annual dividends of approximately $2.60 per share for 2015 in cash in equal quarterly payments in April, July, October and January. To the extent that the expected regular quarterly dividends for 2015 do not satisfy the Company’s annual distribution requirements, the Company expects to satisfy the annual distribution requirement by paying a “catch up” dividend in January 2016. Any future dividend is subject to the board’s future determinations as to the amount of quarterly distributions and the timing thereof.

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Balance Sheet/Liquidity Update

As of March 31, 2015, the Company had total debt outstanding of $1,511.4 million and unrestricted cash of $53.0 million. As of March 31, 2015, $1,154.5 million of borrowings were drawn under the Company’s credit facility, including the $300 million term loan, the revolving credit facility and the Term Loan B, and the lending banks had issued $2.3 million in letters of credit, which left $240.2 million of availability for borrowing under the credit facility.

Warrant Repurchase Update

During the quarter, the Company completed the repurchase of all of the remaining 4.7 million outstanding common stock warrants associated with its previously outstanding 3.75% convertible senior notes which matured on October 1, 2014. No warrants remain outstanding following these repurchases. The aggregate amount paid to the warrant counterparties in consideration for the repurchase of the remaining 4.7 million outstanding common stock warrants during the first quarter of 2015 was $154.7 million, funded with cash on hand and borrowings under the Company’s credit facility. Due to the change in the fair value of the warrants between December 31, 2014 and the settlement date (resulting from the increase in the market value of the Company’s common stock over this period), the Company recorded a $20.2 million loss on this change in the fair value, which is included in other gains and losses, net. This represents a non-cash charge and does not impact the Company’s Adjusted EBITDA or Adjusted FFO.

Senior Unsecured Notes Update and Credit Facility Amendment

Subsequent to the end of the quarter, the Company completed a private placement of $400 million aggregate principal amount of 5.0% senior notes due 2023 (the “Notes”), which closed on April 14, 2015. The Notes are senior unsecured obligations of the Company’s issuing subsidiaries and are guaranteed by the Company and all of the Company’s subsidiaries that guarantee its credit facility. Aggregate net proceeds from the sale of the notes were approximately $392 million, after deducting the initial purchasers’ discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses. The Company used substantially all of the net proceeds from the offering to repay certain amounts outstanding under its credit facility, including the amounts outstanding under the $300 million term loan, eliminating the $300 million term loan, and a portion of the amounts outstanding under the revolver. The Company is in the process of refinancing its credit facility by extending the maturity of the $700 million revolving credit facility for an additional two years and modifying certain covenants, subject to lender approval. The Company’s $400 million term loan B under its credit facility remains outstanding.

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Guidance

The Company is updating its 2015 guidance provided on February 26, 2015 on a consolidated as well as on a Hospitality segment basis. The following business performance outlook is based on current information as of May 6, 2015. The Company does not expect to update the guidance provided below before next quarter’s earnings release. However, the Company may update its full business outlook or any portion thereof at any time for any reason.

Reed continued, “Our hotel business is off to a good start to the year, and the trends in the group segment continue to strengthen. Therefore, based on year-to-date performance in our hotels and the outlook for the remainder of the year, we are increasing our guidance range for full-year 2015 Adjusted EBITDA for the Hospitality segment. The revised guidance range for the Hospitality segment, not including the AC Hotel at National Harbor, will be $310.0 to $325.0 million. As such, our updated guidance for 2015 Adjusted EBITDA on a consolidated basis is a range of $318.0 to $338.0 million. We anticipate Hospitality Adjusted EBITDA margin will improve by 150 to 240 basis points.

“Furthermore, due to our recent refinancing activities subsequent to the end of the quarter coupled with an increase in non-cash valuation allowances for taxes, we are reducing our Adjusted FFO guidance range for full year 2015 to $250.5 to $270.5 million.”

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Earnings Call Information

Ryman Hospitality Properties will hold a conference call to discuss this release today at 10 a.m. ET. Investors can listen to the conference call over the Internet at www.rymanhp.com. To listen to the live call, please go to the Investor Relations section of the website (Investor Relations/Presentations, Earnings and Webcasts) at least 15 minutes prior to the call to register and download any necessary audio software. For those who cannot listen to the live broadcast, a replay will be available shortly after the call and will be available for at least 30 days.

About Ryman Hospitality Properties, Inc.

Ryman Hospitality Properties, Inc. (NYSE: RHP) is a REIT for federal income tax purposes, specializing in group-oriented, destination hotel assets in urban and resort markets. The Company’s owned assets include a network of four upscale, meetings-focused resorts totaling 7,795 rooms that are managed by lodging operator Marriott International, Inc. under the Gaylord Hotels brand. Other owned assets managed by Marriott International, Inc. include Gaylord Springs Golf Links, the Wildhorse Saloon, the General Jackson Showboat, The Inn at Opryland, a 303-room overflow hotel adjacent to Gaylord Opryland and AC Hotel Washington, DC at National Harbor, a 192-room hotel near Gaylord National. The Company also owns and operates media and entertainment assets, including the Grand Ole Opry (opry.com), the legendary weekly showcase of country music’s finest performers for nearly 90 years; the Ryman Auditorium, the storied former home of the Grand Ole Opry located in downtown Nashville; and 650 AM WSM, the Opry’s radio home. For additional information about Ryman Hospitality Properties, visit www.rymanhp.com.

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains statements as to the Company’s beliefs and expectations of the outcome of future events that are forward-looking statements as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. You can identify these statements by the fact that they do not relate strictly to historical or current facts. Examples of these statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the future performance of our business, estimated capital expenditures, out-of-service rooms, the expected approach to making dividend payments, the board’s ability to alter the dividend policy at any time and other business or operational issues. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that

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could cause actual results to differ materially from the statements made. These include the risks and uncertainties associated with economic conditions affecting the hospitality business generally, the geographic concentration of the Company’s hotel properties, business levels at the Company’s hotels, the effect of the Company’s election to be taxed as a REIT for federal income tax purposes commencing with the year ended December 31, 2013, the Company’s ability to remain qualified as a REIT, the Company’s ability to execute its strategic goals as a REIT, the Company’s ability to continue to realize cost savings and revenue enhancements from the REIT conversion and the Marriott transaction and to realize improvements in performance, the Company’s ability to generate cash flows to support dividends, future board determinations regarding the timing and amount of dividends and changes to the dividend policy, which could be made at any time, the determination of Adjusted FFO and REIT taxable income, and the Company’s ability to borrow funds pursuant to its credit agreement. Other factors that could cause operating and financial results to differ are described in the filings made from time to time by the Company with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and include the risk factors and other risks and uncertainties described in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2014 and its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. The Company does not undertake any obligation to release publicly any revisions to forward-looking statements made by it to reflect events or circumstances occurring after the date hereof or the occurrence of unanticipated events.

Additional Information

This release should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included in our most recent report on Form 10-K. Copies of our reports are available on our website at no expense at www.rymanhp.com and through the SEC’s Electronic Data Gathering Analysis and Retrieval System (“EDGAR”) at www.sec.gov.

Calculation of RevPAR and Total RevPAR

We calculate revenue per available room (“RevPAR”) for our hotels by dividing room revenue by room nights available to guests for the period. We calculate total revenue per available room (“Total RevPAR”) for our hotels by dividing the sum of room revenue, food & beverage and other ancillary services revenue by room nights available to guests for the period.

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Non-GAAP Financial Measures

We present the following non-GAAP financial measures we believe are useful to investors as key measures of our operating performance:

To calculate Adjusted EBITDA, we determine EBITDA, which represents net income (loss) determined in accordance with GAAP, plus loss (income) from discontinued operations, net; provision (benefit) for income taxes; other (gains) and losses, net; loss on extinguishment of debt; (income) loss from unconsolidated entities; interest expense; and depreciation and amortization, less interest income. Adjusted EBITDA is calculated as EBITDA plus preopening costs; non-cash ground lease expense; equity-based compensation expense; impairment charges; any closing costs of completed acquisitions; interest income on Gaylord National bonds; other gains and (losses); (gains) and losses on warrant settlements; and any other adjustments we have identified in this release. We believe Adjusted EBITDA is useful to investors in evaluating our operating performance because this measure helps investors evaluate and compare the results of our operations from period to period by removing the impact of our capital structure (primarily interest expense) and our asset base (primarily depreciation and amortization) from our operating results. A reconciliation of net income (loss) to EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA and a reconciliation of segment operating income to segment Adjusted EBITDA are set forth below under “Supplemental Financial Results.” The losses on the call spread and warrant modifications related to our convertible notes and warrant repurchases do not result in a charge to net income; therefore, Adjusted EBITDA does not reflect the impact of these losses.

Adjusted FFO Definition

We calculate Adjusted FFO to mean net income (loss) (computed in accordance with GAAP), excluding non-controlling interests, and gains and losses from sales of property; plus depreciation and amortization (excluding amortization of deferred financing costs and debt discounts) and impairment losses; we also exclude written-off deferred financing costs, non-cash ground lease expense, amortization of debt discounts and amortization of deferred financing cost, and gains (losses) on extinguishment of debt and warrant settlements. For periods prior to 2015, we also deducted capital expenditures. We believe that the presentation of Adjusted FFO provides useful information to investors regarding our operating performance because it is a measure of our operations without regard to specified non-cash items such as real estate depreciation and amortization, gain or loss on sale of assets and certain other items which we believe are not indicative of the performance of our underlying hotel properties. We believe that these items are more representative of our asset base than our ongoing operations. We also use Adjusted FFO as one measure in determining our results after taking into account the impact of our capital structure. A reconciliation of net income (loss) to Adjusted FFO is set forth below under “Supplemental Financial

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Results.” The losses on the call spread and warrant modifications related to our convertible notes and warrant repurchases do not result in a charge to net income; therefore, Adjusted FFO does not reflect the impact of these losses.

We caution investors that amounts presented in accordance with our definitions of Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted FFO may not be comparable to similar measures disclosed by other companies, because not all companies calculate these non-GAAP measures in the same manner. Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted FFO, and any related per share measures, should not be considered as alternative measures of our net income (loss), operating performance, cash flow or liquidity. Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted FFO may include funds that may not be available for our discretionary use due to functional requirements to conserve funds for capital expenditures and property acquisitions and other commitments and uncertainties. Although we believe that Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted FFO can enhance an investor’s understanding of our results of operations, these non-GAAP financial measures, when viewed individually, are not necessarily better indicators of any trend as compared to GAAP measures such as net income (loss) or cash flow from operations. In addition, you should be aware that adverse economic and market and other conditions may harm our cash flow.

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