San Antonio In the News
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With more than 39 million visitors each year, San Antonio is a destination worth visiting. We have it all. Get to know us better and scroll through our news articles and accolades below to see what others are saying about our destination.
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From: Travel and Tour World The San Antonio Hospitality Show, where the tourism industry is experiencing an exhilarating surge! With 5,000 international business delegates in attendance, this event is…
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By: Gave Hernandez | From: San Antonio Business Journal Marc Anderson is the president and CEO of Visit San Antonio. As the third-annual Montreal edition of the InCyber Forum kicks off this week in…
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By: Peter Verry | From: Footwear News The Running Event (TRE) didn’t plan to move from its longtime home in Austin, Texas. But with years of renovations scheduled for the Austin Convention Center, the…
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By: W. Scott Bailey | From: San Antonio Business Journal As San Antonio International Airport adds to its long string of passenger records, multiple airlines are adding or introducing new flights to…
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By: Tammy Leytham | From: ConventionSouth One of the wonderful aspects of the South is its makeup of various ethnicities and heritages; a true melting pot of culture. Cities across the South have…
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By: Sarah Kloepple | From: BizBash As many event professionals know by now, several major convention centers in Texas are currently undergoing renovation or are slated for significant redevelopment…
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From: Business Wire TYSONS, Va. & SAN ANTONIO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cvent, an industry-leading meetings, events, and hospitality technology provider, announced that its customer and industry conference…
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By: Sarah Kloepple | From: Biz Bash Creativity might not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of convention centers, known for their cavernous, utilitarian spaces. But these meeting…
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By: W. Scott Bailey | From: San Antonio Business Journal The city of San Antonio has secured commitments for new airline use and lease agreements, or AULAs, with seven carriers that will extend their…
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By: Amelia Winger | From: San Antonio Express News San Antonio’s population increased more than any other large U.S. city last year, gaining 22,000 residents even as other cities saw their populations…
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By: Mike Stutter | From: San Antonio Express News San Antonio earned its first Michelin Guide honor Thursday when Hotel Emma at Pearl was awarded two Michelin Keys, the guide’s benchmark for honoring…
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By: W. Scott Bailey | From: San Antonio Business Journal VIA Metropolitan Transit’s board of trustees has approved expanding the agency’s VIA Link model to downtown San Antonio, providing an…
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By: Andrea Doyle | From: Skift Meetings During Cvent Connect, the annual customer gathering and user conference, San Antonio took the spotlight. Welcome signs and billboards were nice touches and…
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By: Andrea Doyle | From: Skift After a run of 11 years in Las Vegas, Cvent brought its Connect conference to the Henry B. González Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas, June 10-13. Approximately…
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By: Steven Santana | From: My San Antonio Development is popping off San Antonio is overhauling the heart of the city with projects like the new Alamo museum, upgrades to Hemisfair and a potential…
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By: JT Long | From: Smart Meetings At the annual user conference Cvent Connect for a record 4,000 attendees in San Antonio this week, the event technology company which was purchased by Blackstone…
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By: Stephanie Esquivel | From: News4SA Visit San Antonio said the organization is working to bring more conventions, conferences and large events to San Antonio. The organization said the increased…
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By: Melissa Manno | From: San Antonio Express News Three new nonstop routes are taking flight from San Antonio International Airport this month, bringing its total of nonstops to 45. The airport…
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By: Sarah J.F. Braley | From: Meetings & Conventions Three new hotels are adding a combined 990 rooms to San Antonio's downtown inventory this year. Here's the latest luxury hotel news from the Alamo…
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By: Andrew Warrick | From: Trade Show Executive SAN ANTONIO — With a rich culture and history, unique attractions and a plethora of modern, flexible meeting spaces, San Antonio is a destination to…
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By: Cara Campbell | From: Manchester Times 2022 was a banner year for the hospitality industry in San Antonio, Texas, generating an economic impact of 19 billion dollars. According to a study by…
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By: Maddy Ryley | From: Trade Show Executive CHICAGO — The first-ever U.S. edition of InCyber Forum will be held June 17-18, 2025, in San Antonio. The annual cybersecurity conference that originated…
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By: Marlene Goldman | From: Global Traveler The most historic city in Texas is refurbishing, renovating and reimagining heritage sites, old buildings and whole neighborhoods, bridging the centuries of…
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By: Madison Iszler | From: San Antonio Express News Across the San Antonio River from the glitzy restaurants, apartments and shops at Pearl, the river banks are lined with parking lots separated by…
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By: Brandon Lingle | From: San Antonio Express News Europe’s largest cybersecurity conference is coming to Cyber City, USA, next year, and it’s expected to bring up to 5,000 attendees from around…
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By: JT Long | From: SmartMeetings The annual customer gathering and user conference for the largest event tech company on the planet, Cvent CONNECT, is moving to Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in…
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From: Reisen Exclusiv The seventh largest city in the USA and one of the fastest growing metropolitan regions in the country is still a big unknown for us. Completely wrong. We're talking about San…
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By: Madison Iszler | From: San Antonio Express-News Another hotel is coming to downtown San Antonio. Austin-based Merritt Development Group and Atlanta-based Peachtree Group plan to build a…
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By: Priscilla Aguirre | From: MySA San Antonio is a driving city, especially downtown. You'd have to walk miles, take the VIA, cycle, or ride-share to go from downtown San Antonio to the Pearl or from…
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By: Tiffany Huertas, Robert Samarron, and Maritza Carlos | From: KSAT-12 Increased airport connectivity and a new, major manufacturing site among local business highlights in 2023. SAN ANTONIO – This…
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By: Catherine Marshall | From: Luxury Travel A fiesta of food and antiquity awaits visitors to the southern Texas city of San Antonio. One of just two American Creative Cities of Gastronomy, and…
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By: Tom Wilmer | From: KCBX-FM Join correspondent Tom Wilmer reporting from San Antonio, Texas for a Christmastime exploration of the historic city of more than 1.5 million that paradoxically has a…
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By: W. Scott Bailey | From: SABJ VIA could reach a final funding agreement for the region's first Advanced Rapid Transit route by end of 2024. The Federal Transit Administration has given VIA…
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By: Rachel Andrews | From: CVENT Episode description “No matter who you love, what the color of your skin is, what your religion is, or where you are from in the world, you're welcome here in San…
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By: Jonathan Trager | From: USAE News The San Antonio City Council voted on December 12 to create a "project finance zone" that would fund improvement to the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center or the…
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By: W. Scott Bailey | From: San Antonio Business Journal San Antonio International Airport has been on a hot streak for months, breaking one passenger record after another while landing more domestic…
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By: Amber Hughes | From: Spectrum News SAN ANTONIO — Although some folks visit Hill Country just for the wineries, thousands of tourists are expected to travel here to see the solar eclipse. “On a…
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By: Stephan Rabimov | From: Forbes When you look up “Texas style” online, you get plenty of BBQ content first. Then, somewhere in the next pages of the search results fashion stories start to crop up.
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Cvent CONNECT to be hosted outside Las Vegas for first time since 2014 SAN ANTONIO (October 18, 2023) – Visit San Antonio announces Cvent, an industry-leading meetings, events, and hospitality…
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By: Tyler Davidson | From: Meetings Today The seventh-largest city in the U.S., Texas tourism favorite San Antonio is on a growth spurt, expecting to add another million residents by 2035—and all…
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By: Robert Silk | From: Travel Weekly San Antonio will get its first European route next summer. Germany’s Condor will operate three-times weekly to the Texas city from its home base in Frankfurt…
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By: Judy Koutsky | From: Forbes The travel industry has been through a whirlwind of change in recent years, with the COVID-19 pandemic drastically impacting tourist destinations around the world. As…
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By: Antonio Gutierrez | From: San Antonio Magazine During May 20-24, it was “all hands on deck” for Marc Anderson and his talented team at Visit San Antonio. They were caught up in a flurry of…
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By: Frances Ferrante | From: Tradeshow Executive SAN ANTONIO—San Antonio’s River Walk is on its way to adding a luxurious, new convention hotel. The former Wyndham San Antonio will be transformed…
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By: Natalie Eyster | From: CBS Austin SAN ANTONIO - The United States Census Bureau reports that large southern cities, including San Antonio, are leading the nation in population growth. The…
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By: Tyler Davidson | From: Meetings Today San Antonio has always been the pride of Texas, with that monumental last stand at the Alamo forever notching its place in history books and popular lore.
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By: Sarah J.F. Braley | From: Northstar Meetings Group The Alamo's facelift continues, new convention center features are planned, and a host of fine-dining options await groups. The infectious…
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By: Tyler Davidson | From: Meetings Today San Antonio, already the seventh-largest city in the U.S., is on a population and development boom that has seen the recent opening of 10 hotels and…
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From: City of San Antonio San Antonio (Feb. 15, 2023) – The design renderings and a 3D model of the new terminal planned for San Antonio International Airport (SAT) were revealed at today’s City…
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From: TravelMole Marc Anderson, CEO of Visit San Antonio, speaks to TravelMole's Graham McKenzie in London about his city and IPW23.
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By: Thierry Beaurepère | From: Voyages & Strategie (France) Business tourism is one of the priorities of this year's event, which will take place in the Texan city from May 20 to 24. MICE…
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By: W. Scott Bailey | From: San Antonio Business Journal The timing of that post-pandemic comeback is crucial as city leaders advance a major airport expansion plan. In a year with multiple…
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By: Jeff Heilman | From: MeetingsToday Originally a dairy farm, Phil Hardberger Park on the North Side of San Antonio has attracted outdoor enthusiasts with its swaying native grasses, woods and…
Big cities, big opportunities: Urban destinations offer variety and options for challenging times
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By: Charles M. Cornell | From: ConventionSouth Travel and tourism have come roaring back this year. People are anxious to return to a sense of normalcy after two years of pandemic living. Still, the…
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By: Jeff Heilman | From: Meetings Today Ever check into a new hotel and feel like you’ve been there before? Or wake up in the morning and forget what city you're in? In hospitality as in other…
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By: Hal Hassall | From: Hospitality Net Orlando might be the top U.S. choice for hosting meetings, but it doesn’t have to be O-Town or bust. There are other cities not commonly considered for…
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By: Jessi Faulk | NCAA NCAA members will gather in San Antonio for the first fully in-person Convention since 2020, following a virtual Convention in 2021 and a hybrid Convention in 2022. The…
What’s New
When you plan a meeting in San Antonio, you’re crafting an unforgettable attendee experience that stretches beyond the conference room. And since San Antonio is a city of constant transformation, with new…
Events Calendar
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