Burnet County sits in the Texas Hill Country about 50 miles northwest of Austin and is part of the Highland Lakes region, one of the most visited outdoor recreation areas in Central Texas. Tourism is driven primarily by nature-based recreation, small-town heritage attractions, festivals, and lake tourism.
The Burnet County Tourism collects a tax (HOT) that helps in facilitating the tourism and marketing efforts to showcase our county and all it has to offer to overnight visitors. The HOT funds are used to help generate tourism in our area.
The tax is available for the following uses:
· to establish, improve, maintain a convention center or visitor information centers
· to pay administrative costs for facilitating convention registration
· to pay for advertising, solicitations and promotions that attract tourists and conventions to the county or its vicinity
· Sporting Event Expenses that substantially increase economic activity.
· Funding of historical renovation and preservation programs.
· Signage directing tourists to sites and attractions that are visited frequently by out of town guests.
· to promote the arts that directly promote the tourism industry. Eligible forms of art include instrumental and vocal music, dance, drama, folk art, creative writing, architecture, design and allied fields, painting, sculpture photography, graphic and craft arts, motion picture, radio, television, tape and sound recording, and other arts related to the presentation, performance, execution, and exhibition of these major art forms.