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Championship Bar-B-Que Contest Shatters Previous Record

Feb. 27, 2012

More than 255,000 people turned out for barbecue, music and good times at Reliant Park this past weekend for the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo's World Championship Bar-B-Que Contest. It was a new attendance record for the annual event, up 4.5% from last year's total of 244,000 participants. The contest, sometimes called Cookoff, marks the traditional start of the Rodeo season each year. This year it was held February 23-25. A total of 431 barbecue entries from 263 teams spanning the…

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HMNS Offers Sneak Peek of New Hall

Feb. 10, 2012

Yesterday, the Houston Museum of Natural Science gave media a sneak peek at its massive new Paleontology Hall set to open this summer. Stretching the length of a football field with four gigantic levels, the Hall will double the museum's total space and add roughly 60,000 square feet of exhibit area. HMNS is already one of the most visited museum's in the Southwest. The expansion is expected to only add to that figure. The new Paleo Hall will be packed with prehistoric dinosaurs and other…

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Welcome to the new Visit Houston!

By Sean Herbert on Feb. 09, 2012

We are proud to launch the new and improved VisitHouston.com! For the past several months we've been hard at work completely restructuring and redesigning our site. We hope that you'll find the new site interesting, visually compelling and user-friendly. But most of all, we hope it helps provide you the information you need to make your trip to Houston more enjoyable. If you have a moment, please let us know what you think of the new site – we’re always looking for ways to improve…

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Survey: Houston dining scene ranked 4th in the nation

Jan. 03, 2012

Houstonians are heading to the city's restaurants in droves. And they're loving what they find there. So says a new survey from the folks at LivingSocial that names Houston the fourth best dining city in the nation. The survey polled 4,000 residents nationwide. Houston ranked just behind No. 1 New York, No. 2 Chicago and No. 3 San Francisco. In state, the Bayou City edged out No. 5 Dallas. And while the average American eats out 4.8 times a week, or about 249 restaurant meals a year, locals…

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Houston Named a Top Five Strongest U.S. Travel Market

Jan. 03, 2012

TravelClick recently released its November 2011 North American Hospitality Review and it’s looking like H-Town is in for a bright 2012. All travel segments—business, leisure and group business travel—are seeing gains in demand and increased room rates all over the U.S. in the next 12 months, though a handful of U.S. destinations (including our beloved Houston) are coming out on top. As one of the “Top Five Strongest U.S. Travel Markets,” H-Town will see 9.7% committed occupancy gains, 2.6%…

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Phoenicia Specialty Foods debuts Downtown

Nov. 10, 2011

The highly-anticipated new Phoenicia Specialty Foods officially opened on Thursday with a ribbon cutting ceremony and lots of pita bread! Houston City Council Member James Rodriguez, Downtown Management District Director Bob Eury and others joined the Tcholakian family in opening the new Downtown store, located on the ground floor of the One Park Place residential high-rise. Officials hope the 28,000-square-foot store will become a go-to spot for Downtown residents and workers looking for…

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National Senior Games held in Houston win praise from sports magazine

Oct. 19, 2011

It was just three months ago that Houston was bustling with athletes over-50 from across the U.S. for the 2011 Summer National Senior Games. Now the organizers of that two-week event are getting high praise for its execution. SportsTravel magazine named the 2011 Senior Games the best amateur multi-sport/multi discipline event for the year at the TEAMS Conference & Expo recently held in Las Vegas. The 2011 Summer National Senior Games included more than 10,000 athletes competing in 18…

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