Texas is impressive, vibrant and welcoming!

Texas, the best kept

secret !

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!

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

CULTUREMuseums

• 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

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 SCIENCEone of the Top 10 most attended museums in the US. Belgian Dr. Dirk Van Tuerenhout is curator at the museum since 1999.

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.

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.

BUSINESSHouston 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.

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.”

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

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.

VINEYARDSTexas 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

• 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

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 Mall145 outlet stores (Saks 5th Ave, Burberry, etc)

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.

HOTELS

Most of the large hotels chains are represented in Houston

Sam Houston Hotel

Hotel Zaza

Four Seasons

TEXAS GETAWAYS

Big Ticket NP

Big Bend NP

The Alamo, San AntonioTexas Hill Country

Palo Duro Canyon State Park

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.

Potential Clients

• Doctors• Scientists• Brewers• Oenophiles• Corporate Managers• Etc, etc

TEXAS GETAWAYS

Corporate & Leisure Travel Logistics.

Magda Knop10 years of experience in Texas

Magdaknop1@gmail.com

TEL. (+32) 0497 759696 (Belgium)

Filip Vandenbussche10 years of experience in Texas

filip.vdb@outlook.com

TEL. +1 832 403 1343 (Houston)

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