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Austin Called "Best Little City in America"
The Austin CVB Communications Department works with members of the media to promote the city. November and December bring some great coverage of the Texas capital to the pages of national magazines.
National Geographic Traveler names Austin "The Best Little City in America" in the November/December 2006 edition. The magazine highlights the city's diverse population, endless music, eclectic shopping and regional cuisine as defining factors. "The glass isn't half full in Austin; it's spilling all over the table," writes Carl Hoffman. "Austin is not just the capital of Texas but also a place where misfits fit and creativity is unbridled." For the full story, visit www.nationalgeographic.com/traveler.
In addition, Travel + Leisure en Espanol features Austin in the November issue, naming it "the secret jewel." Journalist Analia Ferreyra writes (in translation), "Austin is the self-proclaimed Live Capital Music of the World®, and the truth is: they are right. With more than 150 venues for live music and concerts in strange sites like supermarkets and the airport, I don't believe the town has any equal."
Conde Nast Traveler will also feature Austin in the December 2006 issue. Graham Boynton, a London-based editor for the magazine, arrived in the city during South by Southwest last March and quickly immersed himself in the authentic Austin experience, even appearing as a guest on KVET's Sam & Bob morning radio show.
Over the past month, the ACVB Communications Department has also hosted journalists from Germany, France, both the London Sunday Mail and the London Independent, and welcomes a group of Canadian travel writers to the city on Sunday.
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When It Comes to Live Music, Austin Has No Limit
Miami Herald
(September 10, 2006)
"When you plan a trip to Austin, you need to prepare yourself for a musical overdose... [Austin is] the capital of Texas but it calls itself the Live Music Capital of the World. And it isn't just one sort of music. Austin has blues, country, old-school rock, industrial/goth, a healthy group of cover bands playing up and down Sixth Street and even electronic DJs."
Austin: The Best Little City in America
National Geographic Traveler
(November/December 2006)
"Dancing arm in arm is an American cross-section: rednecks in cowboy hats, new-agers in Birkenstocks, tattooed twenty-something hipsters, preps in pink polo shirts. The men are men, and the women are women, swirling, twirling, beaming, moving with the simple, unbridled joy of music....Austin is known as the nation's mecca of live music. But after soaking up the nightlife---and discovering other attributes of this funky state capital---I'd go further: Austin, I'm here to say, is the best little city in America."
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