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Noteworthy:
New Hours at Austin Visitor Center—The Austin Visitor Center is now open Monday-Friday from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. and Saturday-Sunday, 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.
ACVB Management Team attends IACVB—Bob Lander and directors from the convention sales, tourism, communications and services departments of the Austin CVB head to the International Association of Convention and Visitor Bureaus (IACVB) annual convention in San Diego, August 3-6, to invite and welcome attendees to next year’s annual event in Austin. The conference, one of the most prestigious in the hospitality industry, brings together leadership and key staff members from convention and visitors bureaus around the world for educational seminars, forums, exhibits and networking. For the first time, IACVB comes to Texas when Austin hosts the 92nd annual convention on July 19-22, 2006.
Insurance Planner Conference Association in Austin—Hilton Austin hosts the 2005 Summer Education Forum for the Insurance Planners Conference Association (IPCA), July 14-16. IPCA is comprised of members who plan business and incentive meetings specific to the insurance and financial services industry. Austin CVB President and CEO Bob Lander welcomes the group on July 14 and Mary Kay Hackely, director of sales at ACVB, is participating in a panel discussion.
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 New Hours at Austin Visitor Center
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America’s Best New Chefs ‘05
Food & Wine
(July 2005)
“Tyson Cole, Uchi, Austin, TX: Why: Because he’s managed the seemingly impossible task of combining a traditional Japanese sensibility with thoroughly American audacity. The result: food that’s utterly delicious and wildly inventive.”
Andy Roddick: Making A Racket
American Way
(May 15, 2005)
“I just love the vibe there. You have everything: It’s one of the most active cities in the U.S. in terms of outdoor activities, it has a great live-music scene, and it doesn’t have the ‘scene-y-ness’ of New York or L.A. You have a bunch of hole-in-the-wall bars where you can just blend in. It’s fun.”
Why Everyone Loves Austin
Financial Times (U.S. Edition)
(May 7, 2005)
“Then there’s Austin’s live music scene. Visitors arriving at the airport are greeted by signs saying ‘Welcome to the Live Music Capital of the World.’ The city hosts two important music festivals each year—South by Southwest and Austin City Limits—as wells as a constant stream of live acts in its downtown clubs. The city council listens to a live band during its session breaks, and Will Wynn, the mayor who keeps a guitar in his office, says he wants music to be the city’s selling point.”
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