More flights to US Virgin islands this Summer

UNITED Airlines will boost air capacity to the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) this summer. In addition to daily flights from George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, United Airlines will once again serve Washington Dulles International Airport with daily service to St. Thomas this summer, and extend its weekly Saturday service from Newark, N.J., to St. Thomas beyond the summer months, through September and October.

According to the U.S. Virgin Islands Bureau of Economic Research (BER), stay-over visitor arrivals to the Territory in 2016 were up 4.3 percent compared with 2015. St. Croix registered a 6.5 percent increase and St. Thomas/St. John was up by 3.8 percent.

For the first two months of the year, stay-over arrivals were up by 4.5 percent over the same period last year, with St. Thomas/St. John reporting a 4.4 percent increase in arrivals while St. Croix was up by 5.3 percent.

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Super Bowl 51

FEBRUARY 2017 will see american football fans pour into #Houston for Super Bowl 51. The biggest single game in American sports will be played at Reliant Stadium bringing a multitude of visitors, unprecedented global media attention and tremendous economic impact to Houston. 

This is the third Super Bowl for Houston. The city last hosted the big game at Reliant Stadium in 2004. If you can’t manage tickets to the big game, get in the spirit by catching the ongoing Houston #SuperBowl Touchdown Tour or Super Bowl Live in Discovery Green park. 

Both events are free admission.

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Houston to Havana with United

THE first flight from #Houston George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) to #Havana took to the air on December 3rd, connecting Cuba to Texas' largest city and United's premier Latin American gateway.

United will operate Saturday nonstop flights from Houston in addition to its daily nonstop service from Newark/New York via NewarkInternational Airport (EWR).

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Space history on show

SPACE CENTER HOUSTON, #Texas, will open its multi-exhibit complex ‘Independence Plaza’ on January 23, featuring the Boeing 747 shuttle carrier aircraft and the shuttle replica, Independence. Visitors will be able to enter both the shuttle and the carrier. 

The shuttle replica has been re-modelled to offer access to previously restricted areas and has been stocked with a collection of artefacts. Exhibits will focus on problem-solving concepts, possible career paths in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, and examples of innovation from the shuttle era.

The shuttle carrier aircraft is the largest intact artefact from the shuttle programme and played key roles in the orbiter’s development.  It carried space shuttles 223 times and clocked 11,017 flight hours over 42 years.

The Manned Space Flight Education Foundation is a non-profit space museum with an extensive science education programme. The cornerstone of its science education mission is #SpaceCenterHouston, which USA Today called The Big Draw in the Greater Houston area, attracting more than 800,000 visitors annually.

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Picture Credit: Independence at Space Center Houston" by Alex Ruddick - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons, STS-121Launch by NASA/Sandy Joseph & Robert Murray - http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=29340. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Your pass to Dallas

DALLAS, Texas, will soon join New York City, San Francisco, Houston, Chicago, and more than half a dozen other tourist destinations as an official CityPASS city. 

The pass is a pre-paid programme that cuts ticket prices at attractions.

Each Dallas CityPASS booklet will save visitors 41 percent off combined admission to the Perot Museum of Nature and Science, Reunion Tower GeO-Deck, a choice between the Dallas Zoo and The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, and a choice between the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum and the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden. 

The pass also saves time, allowing holders to skip most main-entrance ticket lines.

The Dallas CityPASS will retail for $44 (£29.50) for adults, $30 (£20.12) for children aged 3-12.

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Tax-free shopping in the Lone Star state

XMAS shoppers with big budgets might want to think about a trip to Texas, where shopping is tax-free for international visitors.

More than 5,000 stores throughout Texas offer tax-free shopping to overseas visitors.

They can simply take their purchases – along with receipts, flight tickets and passports and visas – to refund centres.

Major shopping cities in the state are Dallas, Houston, Austin, and San Antonio.

See more: www.traveltex.com and www.TaxFreeShopping.com

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