Houston Matters

Is Houston Becoming a Spring Break Destination?

Posted on · South Padre Island, Cancun, Fort Lauderdale – they're traditional spring break destinations, and each year they draw crowds. But according to the travel site Orbitz, some unexpected cities are seeing enormous growth in hotel bookings in March and early April, including exotic and romantic locales like Panama City, Dublin, Paris, and....Houston? Yep, according to Orbitz, […]

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Hotel Business in Houston Has Room to Grow

Posted on · More than 13 million people visited Greater Houston in 2012. (That’s the most recent data available from the Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau). And many of those visitors, when they were here, stayed in one of the area's approximately 700,000 hotel rooms. And yet, there could be room for more hotels in Greater Houston. We […]