Houston, Texas offers a variety of attractions for visitors including world-class museums, theaters, the NASA Space Center, top-ranked medical institutions at the Texas Medical Center, a vibrant business community, breweries, vineyards, shopping, restaurants, and easy access to other cities and natural areas around Texas. With its diversity, opportunities for culture, science, leisure and business, Houston has much to offer international visitors.

1. Texas is
impressive,
vibrant and
welcoming!
Texas,
the best kept
secret !

2. Texas, a state as big as France, lots of people talk about it but hardly any people know the state or have
ever been there. Why not give it a try, Texas has so much to offer. Great cities, museums, wonderful
nature, miles and miles of beaches, desert and canyons, national parks…and NASA Space Center…
let’s start with Houston!

3. What does Houston offer your clients?
CULTURE
•After New York, the highest concentration of world-famous
museums and theaters
SCIENCE
•NASA Johnson Space Center
•Medical Center – largest in the world
BUSINESS
•Port of Houston – First in US imports
•Exxon Mobile Campus (2015)
•George R. Brown Convention Center
LEISURE
•Breweries
•Vineyards
•The world-famous Houston Livestock Show And Rodeo
•Most fantastic shopping malls: Shop till you drop
•Thousands of restaurants
•World Class Hotels
•Getaway to San Antonio, Hill Country, Big Bend NP…
•George Bush Intercontinental Airport

4. CULTURE
Museums
• Museum of Fine Arts
one of the largest museums in the US
• The Menil Collection
One of the largest and most wide-ranging
private art collections in the US
• Rothko Chapel
an interfaith chapel with 14 canvases by
Mark Rothko
• Contemporary Arts Museum
a leading destination to experience
innovative art
Theaters
• Wortham Center
houses the Houston Ballet and
the Houston Grand Opera
• Jones Hall
home to the Houston Symphony
• Alley Theater
Broadway repertoire

5. SCIENCE
TEXAS MEDICAL CENTER
21 renowned hospitals, 13 support organizations, eight academic
and research institutions, three public health organizations, three
medical schools, two universities, two pharmacy schools, and a
dental school.
JOHNSON SPACE CENTER
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's center for
human spaceflight training, research, and flight control.
MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE
one of the Top 10 most attended museums in the US. Belgian Dr.
Dirk Van Tuerenhout is curator at the museum since 1999.

6. TEXAS MEDICAL CENTER
Texas Medical Center in Houston is the largest life sciences destination in the world. With
106,000 employees, 50,000 life science students, and thousands of volunteers and patient
visits, over 160,000 people visit Texas Medical Center each day. Over the course of the
year, we welcome over 7.2 million visitors.

7. While in Texas, a visit to the Houston Space Center is an absolute must.
“Houston, we have a problem!” Famous words spoken by the crew of the Apollo 13 flight.
Visit the Johnson Space Center and have the ultimate behind the scenes experience.
Watch history in the making, meet an astronaut or step into the Lunar samples vault.
Visit the space shuttle sitting on the back of the Jumbo Boeing.
Talking to astronauts puts the world in a different perspective.

8. BUSINESS
Houston means business. The George R Brown Convention Center is one of the largest
convention facilities in the US. Located in downtown and flanked by the Toyota Center, the
Hilton Americas and a brand new Marriott Marquis underway, it offers 1,8 million square foot
(167 225 m2) of meeting, exhibition and registration space.
ExxonMobil is constructing a state-of-the-art campus in Houston that will be home to its 10,000
employees. The campus design incorporates extensive research into best practices in workplace
design and benchmarking from the world’s top facilities
Although Houston is known as the energy capital, it’s now becoming a fast-growing
technology center.

9. PORT OF HOUSTON
The Port of Houston is a 25-mile-long complex of diversified public and private facilities
located just a few hours' sailing time from the Gulf of Mexico. The port is ranked first in the
United States in foreign waterborne tonnage (17 consecutive years); first in U.S. imports (21
consecutive years); first in U.S. export tonnage (4 consecutive years) and second in the U.S. in
total tonnage (21 consecutive years).
The Port of Houston is an economic engine that produces jobs and economic prosperity for the
local and state economy. Throughout its history, whenever the port has grown, Houston has
grown. Someone once wisely pointed out that Houston is “the town that built the port that
built the city.”

10. LEISURE
Houston, the city with no limits, is the 4th largest city in the USA and the home to NASA,
Johnson Space Center. One of the most diverse cities in the nation, standard rules don’t apply.
For the 4 million + Houstonians it’s a city with a soul, rich in culture and diversity.
Museums, theaters, sport arena's, shopping and restaurants, there is so much going on to keep
you busy.
Houston now ranks as one of the Top 5 places to visit in the USA

11. BREWERIES
Local breweries are exploding in Houston. Several craft beer companies came onto the
scene lately what makes Houston the ideal destination in the USA for brewers and beer
lovers.
• Saint Arnold Brewing Company
• Karbach Brewing Company
• Buffalo Bayou Brewing Company
• 8th Wonder Brewery
One of the best known “beerjoints”
for years is “The flying Saucer” with a
selection of approx. 200 beers, local and
international.

12. VINEYARDS
Texas is the fifth-largest wine producing state in the nation, and Grapevine has earned its
reputation as the headquarters of the Texas wine industry. You can plan an entire getaway
around the many wineries in the state of Texas. Most wineries offer free tours and tasting.
• Messina Hof Winery and Resort
• Fall Creek Vineyard
• Llano Estacado Winery

13. • The Houston Livestock Show And Rodeo is the world's largest live
entertainment and livestock exhibition and probably the largest
networking event.
• More than 2 million people attending
• Rodeo, Trail Rides, Concerts, BBQ, International Wine competition,
shopping…
• The rodeo has drawn some of the world's biggest artists and musicians

14. SHOP TILL YOU DROP…
The Galleria Shopping Center, 223 000m2, 400 stores, more than 2 million visitors a year
• Neiman Marcus
• Saks 5th Avenue
• Macy’s
• Nordstrom
Houston Premium Outlet Mall
145 outlet stores (Saks 5th Ave, Burberry, etc)

15. RESTAURANTS
With 8,000 restaurants representing cuisine from more than 35 countries and American
regions, Houston's restaurant scene is as ethnically diverse as its more than 4 million residents.

16. HOTELS
Most of the large hotels chains are represented in Houston
Sam Houston Hotel
Hotel Zaza
Four Seasons

17. TEXAS GETAWAYS
Big Ticket NP
Big Bend NP
The Alamo, San Antonio
Texas Hill Country
Palo Duro Canyon State Park

18. George Bush Intercontinental Airport
Houston is connected to the world through most major airlines: Singapore Airlines,
Korean Airlines, Emirates, KLM, Air France, British Airways, Qatar Airways, SAS,
Lufthansa, Aero Mexico, Turkish Airlines, United Airlines…
IAH with five terminals handles nearly 40 million passengers a year.

19. Potential Clients
• Doctors
• Scientists
• Brewers
• Oenophiles
• Corporate Managers
• Etc, etc

20. TEXAS GETAWAYS
Corporate & Leisure Travel Logistics.
Magda Knop
10 years of experience in Texas
Magdaknop1@gmail.com
TEL. (+32) 0497 759696 (Belgium)
Filip Vandenbussche
10 years of experience in Texas
filip.vdb@outlook.com
TEL. +1 832 403 1343 (Houston)
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