DMAI Heads to Austin

The Destination Marketing Association International (formerly IACVB) concluded its annual meeting in San Diego on Saturday with a Texas-size party and plans for the 92nd annual conference to convene in Austin next year, from July 19-22.

Pictured at left: Bruce Robison and Kelly Willis perform at the DMAI closing event in San Diego.

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Software Makes Location Scouting Easy

Location scouts can now view all of Austin’s diverse film locations without leaving their computers. The Austin Film Office recently launched Reel-Scout, a software program designed to expedite the process of looking for sites for film, video and commercial photography.
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Austin Again Named #1 U.S. City for Hispanics

For the second consecutive year, Hispanic magazine ranks Austin as the top city in the nation for Hispanics to live. This marks the fourth consecutive year that the Capital City has appeared among the three most popular places in the U.S. for Hispanics to live, work and play.
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BatFest Celebrates Winged Wonders Anniversary

The first of the Mexican free-tailed bats, only a handful, arrived in Austin and took roost under the Congress Avenue Bridge 25 years ago. Within five years, the original inhabitants multiplied by tens of thousands. Currently, 1.5 million bats take up part-time residence beneath the bridge from April through early November, making the bridge the largest urban bat colony in the world and one of Austin's most popular attractions.
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Austin Promo Video Debuts

McWilliams Appointed to Tourism Advisory Committee

CVB Tourism Hosts Canadian FAM

Airport Traffic Up

Top 10 Cities for Hispanics to Live In

Hispanic magazine
(August 2005)
“Austin tops the list for the second year in a row for good reason. The capital of the Lone Star State had all the basics: low crime rates, reasonable housing costs, and a happening cultural scene.”


The Last Buccaneer

Rolling Stone
(June 30,2005)
“The reason Mailer is in Austin … He has sold his massive archive – 20,000 pounds of letters, manuscripts, jeremiads and journalism that form an incomparable record of the six turbulent decades in which Mailer has starred as one of the most important cultural figures of the second half of the twentieth century – to the Ransom Center for a handsome $2.5 million.”


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Austin Hotel Market

With Austin’s hotel occupancy finally returning to pre-2001 levels, attention now shifts to adding more inventory to accommodate larger conventions and increased leisure travel.
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August 13
City-Wide Garage Sale
Palmer Events Center
www.cwgs.com
Est. Attendance 2,500
 
 
August 14-19
National Instruments
NI Week 2005
Austin Convention Center
www.ni.com/niweek
Est. Attendance 1,150
 
 
August 19-21
2005 Fall House & Garden Show
Austin Convention Center
www.showtechnology.com
Est. Attendance 20,000
 
 
September 12-16
2005 World Energy Engineering Congress
Association of Energy Engineers
Austin Convention Center
www.aeecenter.org
Est. Attendance 4,000