This book explores Texas, which is the number 2 destination for leisure travellers (second only to California), with four major business / vacation city destinations: Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio and Austin. Texas is an excellent family destination thanks to its numerous amusement parks (especially in Dallas/Fort Worth and Houston) and its outdoor attractions like Big Bend National Park and Guadalupe Mountains National Park.
Texas is a great destination for those interested in sites of historic and archaeological interest, like the Alamo and the Caddoan Mounds. Nature tourism is the fastest growing segment of the travel industry, and Frommer's shows readers the wealth of outdoor adventure options available in the Longhorn State: from gulf coast beaches to the Great Texas Coastal Birding Trail.
Plans are in the works to attract more nature tourists with a new Birding and Nature Trail that will cross the heart and high plains of the state.
