This Just In: Austin Press Releases

With the Austin City Limits Music Festival already on the calendar and the Arkansas/UT game rescheduled for September 27, Austin is bracing for a busy weekend. As many as 90,000 visitors could descend on the city to contribute to an economic impact of nearly $60 million for the weekend.  (more)

With the Austin City Limits Music Festival already on the calendar and the UT/Arkansas game rescheduled for September 27, Austin is bracing for a busy weekend, September 26-28. As many as 90,000 visitors could descend on the city to contribute to an economic impact of nearly $60 million for the weekend.  (more)

- As Hurricane Ike develops, the Austin Convention & Visitors Bureau provides Gulf Coast evacuees with critical information regarding area hotels. The City of Austin provides all information on emergency services.  (more)

For the seventh consecutive year, Hispanic magazine ranks Austin among the top ten cities in the nation for Hispanics to live and work. Whereas in past years, Hispanic has rated and ranked cities, this year’s list lauds each city equally for its unique attributes.  (more)

It’s that time again – Travel + Leisure magazine, CNN Headline News and travelers from across the globe come together to rank the top 25 cities in America. Through June, voters can fill out online surveys to make Austin number one. Voting takes around 5 minutes and can be done by visiting www.travelandleisure.com/afc/2008/survey. Results are announced in the November issue of Travel + Leisure.  (more)

The Austin Convention and Visitors Bureau (Austin CVB) and Austin Latino Music Association (ALMA) have joined forces to promote Latino Music Month (LMM), which runs May 1-31 and showcases the diverse musical styles of Austin’s Latino artists.  (more)

The Austin Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) has teamed up with locally-based BarZ Adventures (BarZ) to offer visitors a new way to discover the city. The GPS Ranger™, BarZ’s first destination tour product, introduces sightseers to Austin’s historical and cultural attractions with a walking tour piloted by Global Positioning System (GPS) technology. The audio and video tour, which is narrated by KXAN News Anchor Michelle Valles, guides visitors to more than two dozen points of interest, providing a comprehensive overview to Texas’ Capital City and the Live Music Capital of the World®. An American Sign Language tour is also offered, increasing the city’s accessibility to the deaf and hard of hearing.  (more)

Experience the rich history of the Texas Capital with free guided walking tours offered by the Austin Convention & Visitors Bureau. Travel through more than a century of culture, tradition and architecture with excursions along Congress Avenue and East Sixth Street and the Bremond Block.  (more)

The Austin Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB) has selected Global Hospitality Marketing Link (GHML) to promote the Texas capital as a leading leisure and group travel destination for international visitors. GHML is also representing San Antonio, allowing the firm to more comprehensively package Texas as a destination and capitalize on the record number of international visitors Texas has received in the past year.  (more)

The Live Music Capital of the World® prepares for the sixth annual Austin City Limits Music Festival, September 14-16. Sold-out crowds are expected to descend upon Zilker Park and generate more than $27 million economic impact for the city. Event organizer C3 Presents reports that music fans from outside of Austin purchased more than 50 percent of the three-day passes and as much as 65 percent of one-day tickets to this year’s event. The festival, recognized among the top outdoor music concerts in the country, brings nearly 60,000 visitors to the city, contributing to a lucrative weekend for Austin-area hotels and businesses.   (more)