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Travel Texas Welcomes New Team Members

Travel Texas welcomes *April Bear* to the team, as Domestic Communications Coordinator. April worked with Travel Texas previously, was with the city of Cedar Park as Tourism Manager and also worked for Amazon.? April takes on the role formerly held by Tamara Andrew, who transitioned to Advertising Project Coordinator in February of 2022.

*Erik Arellanos* will be also join Travel Texas as Mexico and Latin America Marketing Specialist on April 17. Erik has previously worked at Visit Dallas and most recently was a Tourism Account Manager with Aviareps Mexico.

Please join us sending a warm welcome them both!

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Travel Spending up 21.1% in 2022

Travelers to and within Texas spent an estimated $91.7 billion in 2022 ? an increase of 21.1% from the previous year and the highest amount on record! Travel spending generated an economic impact of $187.5 billion supporting 1.2 million Texas jobs with earnings of $67.6 million.

Local economic impact estimates for metropolitan areas, tourism regions, legislative districts, cities and counties will be available soon at travel.texas.gov [ [link removed] ]. Have other research questions? Contact Travel Texas Research! [ [link removed] ].

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NTTW 2023 is May 7 - 13

NTTW 2023

With National Travel & Tourism Week (May 7-13) fast approaching, we want to hear about any special events/activities you?re planning. As in years past, we?ll be listing Texas tourism events as well as releasing updated Travel Texas research on travel.texas.gov [ [link removed] ].?There is still time to submit your events/activities!

Please submit the following details to [email protected] <[email protected]?subject=National%20Travel%20%26%20Tourism%20Week%20Update>.


* Event name and date
* Event details (2-3 sentences, with a link for more information

Please send all submissions to the Travel Texas PR team by Friday, April 14, 2022 and contact the PR team <[email protected]> with any questions.?

Find additional information about National Travel and Tourism Week 2023?here [ [link removed] ].



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