New Mexico Tourism Commission Traveled to ‘Bootheel’s’ Rodeo for Quarterly Meeting

Friendly people, lots of room, a couple of gas stations, two or three places to buy groceries, a laundromat, a Post Office, a tavern, a garage, and  - on May 14 –tiny Rodeo, New Mexico added the New Mexico Tourism Commission to its expanding list of attractions – at least for that one day.

The seven-member New Mexico Tourism Commission - created by state statute as an advisory board on policy matters to the New Mexico Tourism Department – met with around 20 Rodeo- area residents at the Theater at the Sky Gypsies Airport in Rodeo. Rodeo is around 50 miles south and west of Lordsburg on State Road 80, about a block and a half east of Arizona.

The Governor-appointed Tourism Commission includes Chairman Al Lucero (Santa Fe), Deidre A. Lujan (Albuquerque), Ted Garcia (Albuquerque), Chris Stagg (Taos Ski Valley), Randy Randall (Santa Fe), Selena Chino (Mescalero), and Bill Hirschfeld (Ruidoso).

The purpose of the quarterly meetings is to update the commission on New Mexico Tourism Department activities, and to gather tourism industry ideas on how both the commission and the department might enhance the state’s tourism effort.

The Tourism Commission and Tourism Department staff also used the opportunity to meet with local tourism industry and local government leaders in Lordsburg and Silver City.