Tourism
Tourist attractions in the Houston area include Space Center Houston and the original Ninfa's. Previous attractions included tours of the Houston Astrodome and Gilley's. The Houston Bay Area and Galveston also have many other tourist attractions, including a Schlitterbahn Water Park, Kemah Boardwalk, Moody Gardens, beaches, fishing, pleasure boats, and many local seafood restaurants. There is also plan to build a new theme park, dubbed Earth Quest Adventures, in the New Caney area of East Montgomery County. Just 25 miles northeast of Downtown Houston. The Houston Museum District, Houston Theater District in Downtown, and The Galleria are also heavily visited tourist attractions.
On July 26, 2003 the Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau started the "The Neighborhoods Alive: Houston's Multicultural Tour," a bus tour throughout several neighborhoods in inner Houston. The tour's destinations included Downtown Houston, the First Ward, the Second Ward, the Third Ward, the Sixth Ward, East Downtown, and Midtown. Two later bookings, those for August 23, 2003 and September 2003, quickly sold out. Therefore the bureau added six more dates on short notice.
Around 2006 Taiwanese people became owners of several independent and small chain hotels in the Houston area. In December 2006 C.Y. Ling, the director of the commercial division of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Houston, said that Taiwanese owned more hotels than any other ethnic group except for the Indians.
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“In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.”
—Robert Runcie (b. 1921)