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New Hotels Open Downtown
The new Courtyard and Residence Inn by Marriott Austin Downtown/Convention Center open for business later this month. The new properties add a total of 449 guest rooms and 6,600 square feet of event and meeting space to the downtown hotel package. Among the shared amenities are a heated indoor pool, whirlpool, fitness center, rooftop terrace, Champions Restaurant & Sports Bar and Starbucks. The hotel is owned and operated by White Lodging Services.
"Austin offers a great mix of hotel properties in the downtown area, and that choice is expanding even more. We welcome the addition of this unique concept, which brings two Marriott brands together, side by side and next door to the Convention Center," remarks Austin CVB President and CEO Bob Lander.
While guests start arriving in August, the properties celebrate a grand opening September 21. For advance details or group sales information, contact the pre-opening office by calling (512) 236-8008 or visit www.marriott.com/AUSCD or www.marriott.com/AUSRD.
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Where You Live Is Key
Healthy Hometowns: #2 Austin
Men's Journal
(August 2006)
"We looked across the country for the cities healthiest to your heart...[in] Austin, TX city programs such as the Mayor's Fitness Program aim to get residents moving to help reduce disease. Mayor Will Wynn also wants to make Austin the fittest city in the U.S. by the year 2010."
The Bair Essentials: From Boston to Austin
Association Meetings
(July 24, 2006)
"From DMAI's opening session that highlighted the best of Austin's live music--and was held up as a perfect model for every city because it allowed us to "experience" the destination--to a closing event that featured more great music and a mayor who hung out with us in his jeans and cowboy boots, this is one fun, happening city."
Live Music Austin: The Top 20
Texas Highways
(August 2006)
"Famously, Austin and environs are home to more than 150 choices for live music...I visited 100 Austin-area music venues...and my ears rang for weeks with folk, punk, R&B, metal, Tejano, hip-hop, blues, jazz, rock, jam, reggae, country and classical music."
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Austin CVB Mission Statement:
The Austin Convention & Visitors Bureau is charged with marketing Austin nationally and internationally as a premier business and leisure destination, thus enriching our community's overall quality of life.
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