Sara Rangel wins Roadrunner Award honors
Written by Post Public Information Representative, Apr 24, 2009, 0 Comments
(AUSTIN)-Sarah Rangel, a senior travel counselor with the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), received the 2009 Roadrunner Award for outstanding service to the traveling public, TxDOT and the state. The award was presented at ceremonies held in San Angelo.
Rangel is a travel counselor at the Judge Roy Bean Visitor Center in Langtry, which served more than 62,000 visitors in 2008. The information center greets and provides travelers with statewide travel information and is home to the Judge Roy Bean historical Opera House and Jersey Lilly Saloon.
The Roadrunner Award honors Rangel for her professionalism, dedication and outstanding efforts. For more than 16 years she has been an ambassador and “the face of Texas,” counseling travelers and tourists from all across the country who stop by the center in Langtry. A state and national certified professional travel counselor, she has filled in as interim supervisor at this center and has served on TxDOT’s Travel Counselors Advisory Committee.
“Sarah enjoys her job and is extremely knowledgeable of the Judge Roy Bean historic site, the surrounding area, and always goes the extra mile for our customers,” said Doris Howdeshell, Travel Information Division Director. “Her work ethic and knowledge about tourism make her a valuable asset to the department, the information center, and the travel industry.”
TxDOT operates 12 Texas Travel Information Centers at points of entry to the state and at the Capitol Visitor Center in Austin. Professional travel counselors at the centers greet visitors, provide them with routing and road condition information, distribute travel literature and maps, and some issue oversize/overweight permits and temporary licenses. Counselors serve as goodwill ambassadors to almost 3.5 million visitors who enter the state every year and are often the first Texans to greet
visitors. The Roadrunner Award was presented during the 54th annual Texas Travel Counselors Conference, a meeting of the Texas travel professionals and representatives of TxDOT’s Travel Information Division, the Texas Travel Industry Association, the American Automobile Association, Texas Parks and Wildlife, and city information centers
