Texas Business reports: SAN ANTONIO—The Witte Museum plans to open the Robert J. and Helen C. Kleberg South Texas Heritage Center, Memorial Day Weekend, Saturday, May 26, 2012.

 The Weather Research Center’s 2012 hurricane season outlook predicts a quiet storm season for the Texas Gulf Coast — potentially good news for Galveston’s newest tourist attraction.

 Texas Business reports:  DFW INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT—JetBlue Airways began service to its 71st destination and the third destination served in the Lone Star State: Dallas/Fort Worth.

Texas Business reports:  NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas— Schlitterbahn New Braunfels Waterpark, plans to open its largest development in almost 15 years with the addition of a new park area called Tubenbach. 

Texas Business reports: ATHENS—Professional angler Tommy Martin of Hemphill and lure manufacturer and angler Lonnie Stanley of Huntington will be inducted into the Texas Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame June 2, 2012, at the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center in Athens.

From the coastal beachfront of South Padre Island to Big Bend National Park in the west, Texas businesses dependent on tourists say their areas are safe despite the drug-related violence in northern Mexico.

Texas Business reports:  LOS ANGELES—Luxe added the historic Stoneleigh Hotel & Spa in Dallas,  making it the newest Luxe branded property.  

Texas Business reports:  The Texas Department of State Health Services has issued an advisory limiting the consumption of gafftopsail catfish from Texas waters of Sabine Lake in Jefferson and Orange counties.

Texas Business reports:  SEGUIN – The 34th Texas Paddling Trail and second in Seguin will open on Wednesday, Dec. 7, along a scenic stretch of the Guadalupe River. 

Texas Business reports:  FORT WORTH, Texas and SYDNEY—American Airlines and Qantas Airways today welcomed the U.S. Department of Transportation's final approval of the airlines' trans-Pacific joint business agreement (JBA), which will allow the carriers to coordinate services between the United States, Australia and New Zealand.

CUERO — Training turkeys can be highly stressful work.

Texas Business reports:  EDINBURG—One of America's most vibrant "birding hotspots" is Rio South Texas; a tropical paradise with almost 500 recorded species of bird.

Texas Business reports:  DALLAS and GRAPEVINE—The Gaylord Texan's new 10-acre, $13-million Paradise Springs waterpark, designed by landscape architecture and land planning firm TBG Partners, boosted the resort's leisure travel business by nearly 40 percent since its Memorial Day opening.

Texas Business reports: CORPUS CHRISTI – The Texas AgriLife Extension Service nature tourism program is offering a new online marketing platform, guide training and certification program for Texas fishing guides and coastal tourism service providers.

Texas Business reports:  FORT WORTH—The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District, announced a temporary emergency closure on parts of Lake O’ the Pines due to ongoing fire suppression operations in the area.

Texas Business reports:  GEORGETOWN—The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District closed of Jim Hogg boat ramp at Lake Georgetown due to drought conditions.

Texas Business reports:  The theater company Generations, in association with Rice University’s Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts, will present the coming-of-age drama "Spring Awakening" with a rock-music score.

Texas Business reports:  A 16-year-old Egyptian girl who lived 2,300 years ago could not have imagined today's CT Scans. But because of the impact such technology has had on archeology, much has been learned about the mummified mystery teen -- all without ever unwrapping her.

Texas Business reports:  Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) International Airport welcomed the inaugural Qantas Airways flight from Sydney, Australia to Dallas-Fort Worth.

Texas Business reports:  Southlake—Travelocity signed a distribution agreement with S7 Airlines of Russia, a member of the oneworld alliance, and will offer the airline’s full range of content through Travelocity.com, Travelocity Business, and the Travelocity Partner Network.

Texas Business reports: Arlington—Six Flags Over Texas launched the New Texas Giant, a “super hybrid coaster” that claims to have the steepest drop of any wooden coaster in the world.

 Texas Business reports: LV Air founder Sean Smith will meet with Dynamic Air in Dallas this week to work-out final details of lease agreements for 767 jets and flight crews for cheap luxury flights to Las Vegas, officials announced.

Texas Business reports:  Houston—The Linbeck Group LLC recently “topped out” $33 million, 197,000 square foot expansion of the Houston Museum of Natural Science.

Texas Business reports:  A new museum under construction was “topped out” at the height of its structure.

Texas Business reports:  Statistics released by the Mexico Tourism Board show a surge in travel from Texas to the country's top beach destinations and resort areas.

Texas Business reports:  Houston, America's third largest art market, will be home to the first annual Houston Fine Art Fair September 15 – 18, 2011.

Texas Business reports:  Galveston Island—Moody Gardens has entered the final phase of a $25 million enhancement project that will include a complete redesign of its popular Rainforest Pyramid.

Jacqueline & JFK serenaded by mariachi band. Sixth Floor Museum.

Texas Business reports:  Dallas—The popular tourist attraction, The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, has added a color film that shows John F. Kennedy addressing Austin supporters the night before his assassination in Dallas. 

Texas Business reports:  Fort Worth—American Eagle Airlines, the regional affiliate of American Airlines,  announced new nonstop service from Central Nebraska Regional Airport in Grand Island, Nebraska to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, beginning June 9. 

Texas Business reports:  Two events, including the opening of a new space-themed museum, to honor the space shuttle Columbia and the Columbia crew are planned in Hemphill on Tuesday.

Texas Business recommends this story by Karen Robinson-Jacobs of the Dallas Morning News  The new head of Six Flags Entertainment Corp. announced gains in attendance, revenue and profit for the theme park operator Monday.

Texas Business recommends this story by Jenalia Moreno of the Houston Chronicle:  GALVESTON — Several stories high and topped by its red and blue smokestacks and yellow water slide, the Carnival Ecstasy towered over the cruise ship terminal near Galveston's historic Strand.

TexasBusiness.com notes this story by David Casstevens at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram:  Murry Conarroe knows how hot it gets in August.

TexasBusiness.com notes this story by CBS11TV: If you have ever attended an SMU football game or the Cotton Bowl Classic, then you have heard the voice of Bill Melton.

​Time magazine has put together its list of the 50 Greatest Roadside Attractions in America. When you've got the national resources of a media empire like Time, this is the type of thing you can do. Exactly four of the 50 "nostalgic, gaudy, run-down and kitschy locations" come from Texas, writes Richard Connelly of the Houston Press. 

TexasBusiness.com notes:  Shermakaye Bass writes for Texas Highways about the new museum and park in Waco. “I’ve always been fascinated with Waco. It’s a convenient mid-point between Dallas and Austin, and I stop whenever possible to take in some of its colorful history. One of my favorite Texas structures is the 1870 Waco Suspension Bridge, the first bridge to span the Brazos River.”

A small group has since been studying and drawing plans for an upscale Disney-styled entertainment complex that would be seven times larger than Houston's original park, reports Cindy Horswell of the Houston Chronicle.

Brownsville is set to pour 11.5 million into the local economy. More than half will go into the Brownsville Sports Park.

An Oklahoma Senator opposes Senators John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchinson on the Waco mammoth park.