Construction of Texas State Highway 290 linking Fort Stockton to Big Bend National Park gave a boost to the tourism dollar.

Ardmore is located equidistant from Oklahoma City and Dallas / Fort Worth, Texas at the junction of Interstate 35 and U. S. Highway 70, and is generally considered the hub of the ten-county region in South Central Oklahoma, also known by state tourism pamphlets as Arbuckle Country and Lake and Trail Country.

The director of tourism and cultural services for Walker County, Texas has attributed the character's popularity to helping boost tourism numbers to the area.

The University of TRAVELHOST, Dallas, Texas has an extensive travel library continually gathering travel related research and tourism economic impact studies nationwide.

The historic timing of bowl games, around the new year, is the result of two factors: originally bowls began in warm climates such as Southern California, Louisiana, Florida and Texas as a way to promote the area for tourism and business.

In 1989, the Texas Legislature created the Old San Antonio Road Preservation Commission to coordinate a yearlong observance in 1991 of the 300th anniversary of the road and encourage tourism along the route.

The purpose of this designation is to supplement the Texas Historical Commission's existing " heritage tourism " programs and to increase interest in the Bankhead Highway.

The historical and architectural value of the fort, along with the rugged natural beauty of the park combine to prepresent a significant destination for tourism in Texas. Summit of Mount Locke

Along with their connections in Hollywood and New York City, these interests in Las Vegas were able to use publicity provided by these media capitals to steer the rapid growth of tourism into Las Vegas thereby dooming Galveston, Texas ; Hot Springs, Arkansas ; and other illegal gaming centers around the nation.

Anita Perry's priorites, as listed on the Office of the Governor of Texas website, include the Texas Conference for Women ; travel, tourism, and economic development ; immunizations ( she is actively engaged with The March of Dimes ); encouraging Texans to pursue careers in nursing to deal with a nursing shortage ; historic preservation, and the reconstruction / remodeling of the Texas Governor's Mansion, which was devastated by arson in 2008.

Étienne Cabet's work Travels in Icaria caused a group of followers to leave France in 1848 and travel to the United States to found a series of utopian settlements in Texas, Illinois, Iowa, California, and elsewhere.

Oklahoma City lies along one of the primary travel corridors into Texas and Mexico, and is about three hours by highway to the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area.

In 2010, the Aces ended their contract with the CBL, citing travel costs among other reasons before joining the college wooden bat league they currently play in now, the Texas Collegiate League.

Louise is determined to travel from Oklahoma to Mexico, but refuses to go through Texas.

Gray would travel the region on behalf of the Texas Western Railroad, in order to run a preliminary survey of the region.

Gray would travel the region on behalf of the Texas Western Railroad, in order to run a preliminary survey of the region.

Finally striking oil it was clear Taft understood drilling, However, the art of capping a well was something no one in the area had any understanding, as a result the Gusher Lake was formed during the months it took for proper materials and an instructor from Texas to travel out to Taft.

* Interstate 10, east-west travel: south-southeast to El Paso, Texas ; west to Tucson, Arizona.

Through the connections in Dallas and Denison, it was possible to travel to Terrell, Texas ; Corsicana, Texas ; Waco, Texas ; Fort Worth, Texas ; Cleburne, Texas ; Denton, Texas ; and to Durant, Oklahoma by interurban railways.

The town, its lake, and its resurgence as a regional travel destination were featured in the June 2012 edition of Texas Highways magazine.

Hank recalls that, during his childhood, his father would travel around Texas searching for showings of this film.

While on one such journey in Texas, he rediscovered his native and untutored talent for the flute and decided to travel to the northeast in hopes of finding employment as a musician in an orchestra.

In yet another adventure called " Líos Gordos " Memín and his friends travel to Texas to play soccer.

The film, set in the 1940s, tells the story of an elderly woman, Carrie Watts ( Page ), who wants to return home to the small town where she grew up, but is frequently stopped from leaving Houston, Texas by her daughter-in-law and an overprotective son who won't let her travel alone.

Travelocity is an online travel agency and wholly owned subsidiary of Sabre Holdings Corporation, which was a publicly traded company until taken private by Silver Lake Partners and Texas Pacific Group in March 2007.

Georgette Thomas and her six-year-old daughter Margaret Rose travel to a small southern Texas town to meet her irresponsible rockabilly singer / guitarist husband, Henry Thomas, when he is released from prison after serving time for stabbing a man during a drunken brawl.

* Bell ( METRORail station ), Houston, Texas, United States

Wills soon settled the renamed Texas Playboys in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and began broadcasting noontime shows over the 50, 000 watt KVOO radio station.

* MLK, Jr. ( Capital MetroRail station ), in Austin, Texas, USA

* MLK, Jr. ( DART station ), in Dallas, Texas, USA

Author Bill Cherry proposed George Roy Clough as the first to invite listeners to argue politics on a call-in radio show at KLUF, his station in Galveston, Texas, as a way to bring his own political views into listeners ' homes.

For example, the General Motors factory in Arlington, Texas where rear-wheel-drive cars were built, such as the Chevrolet Caprice, Buick Roadmaster, and Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham was converted to truck and SUV production, putting an end to full-size family station wagon and overall terminating production of rear-wheel drive full-size cars.

It introduced significant commercial and technical innovations, including the first drive-in service station ( 1913 ), complimentary road maps, drilling over water at Ferry Lake, and the catalytic cracking refining process ( Gulf installed the world's first commercial catalytic cracking unit at its Port Arthur, Texas, refinery complex in 1951 ).

* Burbank ( DART station ), a light rail station in Dallas, Texas

* Gainesville, Texas ( Amtrak station )

As a result Smith began to pay his own security force to protect him, because although he lived in Del Rio, Texas, because of the Brinkley Act he had to actually broadcast from the station itself in Ciudad Acuña in Mexico.

Weekend editions were also heard on some U. S. radio stations in Texas including KXOL, an AM station in Fort Worth.

Another group that was also based in North Texas who were aware of the Bill Mack venture on XERF and the replacement of his time slot by the Texas Night Train were the owners of a company attempting to revive the British offshore station Wonderful Radio London.

It appeared that with the new interest being shown in the station from Texas, that it would be possible to restore the signal of the station to a dependable high-power strength using the old RCA 250. kW transmitter.

-Article describing how Bob Smith ( Wolfman Jack ) came to Del Rio, Texas to meet Arturo Gonzelez and Ramon D. Bosquez and wanting to know who was the owner of radio station XERF.

* South Texas Nuclear Generating Station, aka South Texas Project, nuclear power station located southwest of Bay City, Texas

Judge Roy Bean ( 1825 – 1903 ) operated a general store and saloon west of the Pecos River in Langtry, where the original Bean building is displayed at a Texas Tourist Bureau station.

Richardson worked part time at Beaumont, Texas radio station KTRM ( now KZZB ).