At a recent ecotourism summit at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, Rio Grande Valley officials and environmental advocates said that more effort is needed to accommodate visitors who want to be more green.
Cities in the region need to have stronger recycling programs available to visitors, said Dan Quandt, executive director of the South Padre Island CVB. “We need to have recycling, if we're going to walk the talk,” Quandt told The Brownsville Herald.
The region also should encourage more “catch-and-release” fishing tournaments, he said.
Tourism officials agreed that more needs to be done to inform potential visitors of the region’s highlights, such as its wealth of bird and butterfly species and hunting and fishing opportunities.
