Travel, Tourism, Recreation, and Entertainment

Some of the industry links might also be useful for highway and transportation issues.

• Hotel Information
  • TravelNow Texarkana hotels and rates
  • Texas Tourism: Regional Hotel Reports

• Economic Impact
  • Texas Tourism: Texas Travel Spending Comparison
  • Texas Tourism 2001 Destination Reports
    • Texarkana, TX MSA Travel Report, 2001 (PDF format)
  • Texas Tourism Economic Impact of Travel on Texas
    • Texas Travel Spending Comparison
    • MSA Travel Impact (PDF format)
    • Economic Impact of the Arts in Texas (PDF format)
  • 1997 Economic Census: Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation Texarkana, TX--Texarkana, AR MSA - US Census Bureau
  • Nonemployer Statistics, 2001: Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation, Texarkana MSA - US Census Bureau
  • Amusement and Recreation Service Wages - Texarkana, TX; Texas labor market Wage Information Network

• Transportation
  • U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    • Highway Characteristics in Texas - miles of freeway in individual cities, amount of traffic on those freeways, etc.  Not available for AR.
    • Trip Generation Analysis, 1975 - search for Texarkana; shows 1965 household trip statistics
    • Airport Congestion - set filter to Texarkana

• Weather
  • WorldClimate.com
    • Texarkana average temperature
    • Texarkana average rainfall

• Other
  • Recreation.gov - U.S. Federal government recreation portal
  • Texas Parks & Wildlife
  • Texas Tourism
  • Texas Economic Development - Tourism
  • Official Site of Texas Tourism
  • Arkansas Department of Parks & Tourism
  • Department of State Parks, Arkansas Department of Parks & Tourism