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Downtown Properties Celebrate
Grand Opening
The grand opening of the Marriott Courtyard Austin Downtown and Residence Inn by Marriott featured addresses from J.W. Marriott, Jr., Chairman and CEO of Marriott International Inc., Mayor Will Wynn and general manager Roger Radtke. Austin CVB Board Chair Glenn West emceed the event, which was attended by more than 300 local community leaders and hospitality industry professionals.
Shown, from left: Roger Radtke; Bruce White, CEO and founder of White Lodging; Austin Mayor Will Wynn; and J.W. Marriott, Jr.
NAMM Returns Summer Session to Austin
The International Music Products Association (NAMM) returns its summer conference and trade show to the Austin Convention Center, July 27-29, 2007. NAMM met for the first time in Austin this past July with some 20,000 attendees and an estimated $20 million impact on the Austin economy.
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Sales Team Expands National Efforts
The ACVB sales team participated in the first-ever Texas Pavilion at the recent American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) Annual Meeting & Expo in Boston. The pavilion featured all of the major Texas destinations exhibiting together at one of the meeting and convention industry's leading trade shows. Austin CVB took center stage in the pavilion by offering live music from the Marshall Ford Swing Band throughout the show. More than 90 clients talked with ACVB account directors to generate lucrative leads from the national association market.
Shown, from left: Mary Kay Hackley, Austin CVB; Kristen McCue, Renaissance Austin Hotel; Carolyn McCall Squires, Hyatt Regency; Deb Coulter, Barton Creek Resort & Spa; Amy Miller, Austin Convention Center.
ACVB Names New Sports Commission Executive Director
Matthew Payne has been promoted to executive director of the Austin Sports Commission (ASC). With more than 12 years of sports industry experience and a degree from the University of Texas at Austin, Payne is dedicated to enhancing Austin's reputation as a national sports hub.
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Austin Is Cooking in New York
Austin CVB teamed up last week with Chef David Bull of The Driskill Grill and the Texas Hill Country Wine and Food Festival for a media mission to New York to promote the city's burgeoning culinary scene. Chef Bull, who made an appearance as a guest chef in the Conde Nast cafeteria, generated much interest as the trip came just 10 days before the Iron Chef segment in which he challenges celebrity Chef Bobby Flay. The Austin delegation also hosted a media reception at Paladar, a hip new restaurant on the Lower East Side. Paladar's Chef Aaron Sanchez, a native Texan, will be a guest chef at the 2007 wine and food festival. Pictured: Chef David Bull with Kevin Doyle, news editor of Conde Nast Traveler.
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Sandy Gets Serious
Vogue
(October 2006)
"As the great grandson of a cousin of Jesse James has taken to Sandra Bullock, so has he taken to Austin, where the two are frequently seen eating ice cream at Amy's...or shopping at the old antiques stores that run for miles and miles into the countryside...'And you've got great boutiques, and young designers are coming out of Austin,' says Bullock."
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Waking Up the West End
Nightclub & Bar
(August 2006)
"Austin's Sixth Street district- more than 30,000 guests visit on a single, high-traffic night. Saturated with a mix of tourists, trendsetters, college kids and music connoisseurs, the area is teeming with kinetic energy in the form of entertainment value...(now West Sixth) has filled the void of what many in Austin were craving- a sophisticated evening away."
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Going to Austin
The New York Times
(September 17, 2006)
"Wherever trend spotters eventually mark the date, the mantra now is indisputable: the eccentric, laid-back college town of Austin, Tex., has flourished into a Hollywood darling and a byword for cool."
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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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