Brownsville Convention & Visitors Bureau

The Houston Astros 2012 CAREavan will hit the road on Wednesday, February 1, with three full days of visits throughout central and south Texas. In addition to numerous private community stops, each day will include free public autograph sessions at Academy Sports + Outdoors stores. The team will make trips to Brownsville, Harlingen and McAllen [...]

Room Key, a new venture owned by six of the world’s leading hotel companies, today announced that it has launched Roomkey.com, an innovative new online hotel search engine that will provide the simplicity, transparency and breadth of choice consumers expect from a search engine, while delivering the flexibility, accuracy and assurance consumers expect from the [...]

Kiazi, a 13-year-old female Western lowland gorilla is the newest member of the gorilla family at the Gladys Porter Zoo. She made her public debut on the gorilla habitat known as Gorilla Island on Friday, December 30th, 2011. “Kiazi is adapting well with the other female gorillas,” said Jerry Stones, Facilities Director at the Gladys [...]

Mr. Amigo Association held a unveiling event Friday Jan. 15 at the Mexican Consulate announcing Mexico’s hottest television star, Arath de la Torre as the 47th the Mr. Amigo. Arath is currently in one of Mexico’s number one rated soap opera, Una Familia Con Suerte, and portrays Pancho Lopez, a role that has launched him [...]

Brownsville, TX – Sabal Palm Sanctuary recently launched a new live bird feeder cam with support of the Rio Grande Valley Chapter Texas Master Naturalists. The live cam allows viewers world wide to explore and keep up to date with some of the birds visiting the region. Common species include Green Jay, Chachalaca, Black-Crested Titmouse, [...]

Brownsville’s Resaca de la Palma State Park boasts the largest tract of native habitat in the World Birding Center network. Etched by ancient curves of the Rio Grande, its 1200 semi-tropical acres provide a quiet retreat. Through the cooperation of local, state and federal land management agencies, a wilderness preserved from days gone by is [...]

Representatives from Mr. Amigo Association stopped by our office today to drop off a package of tickets to Taste of La Forntera 2012. Taste of La Frontera features delicious cuisine from the Brownsville and Matamoros area, beer, wine and entertainment. The event comes just in time to get everyone prepped for the Charro days festivities [...]

Brownsville, TX – The Brownsville Convention & Visitors Bureau has set up a display to showcase some of the items for sale at the Juarez Market located at 1008 E. Elizabeth St. in Brownsville, TX. Some of the items include authentic sombreros, talavera pottery, and authentic women’s dresses from Oaxaca and Puebla with embroidered flower designs. [...]

Brownsville, TX – Due to increase in traffic flow to the Brownsville Convention & Visitors Bureau website, the organization realized the need for improvements to their online presence. The new and improved website offers online audiences a wealth of information about Brownsville services, products, attractions hotels and meeting facilities. The new website offers better navigation [...]