PLANO \u2013 Visit Rockwall took first place in the Meeting and Convention Promotion category at the 2026 Texas Tourism Awards, recognizing the organization\u2019s efforts to promote Rockwall as a destination for meetings and conventions.<\/p>\n
The award was announced during the Destinations Texas 2026 Annual Conference, held Sept. 2-4 at the Dallas\/Plano Marriott at Legacy Town Center in Plano.<\/p>\n
Visit Rockwall was selected from destination marketing and management organizations across Texas. Visit Kilgore placed second in the category.<\/p>\n
The annual conference drew nearly 400 tourism professionals from across the state for three days of educational sessions, networking and recognition of achievements in the Texas tourism industry.<\/p>\n
Destinations Texas is a statewide organization representing destination marketing and management professionals and organizations working to promote tourism throughout Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PLANO \u2013 Visit Rockwall took first place in the Meeting and Convention Promotion category at the 2026 Texas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161,8476,954,3867,27,3814,6208],"class_list":["post-440302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-recreation","tag-rockwall","tag-service-industries","tag-texas","tag-tourism","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}