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San Antonio Tourism Hits Temporary Speed Bump, Experts Believe

SAN ANTONIO-The Alamo City's sagging tourism is just a bump in the road that won't continue through year's end, say those in the know around town. The city takes in more than $4 billion annually from its second-largest business.

By Tim Green | Updated on September 19, 2001

SAN ANTONIO-San Antonio is scheduled to welcome 60,000 visitors to business meetings and conventions in the next six weeks. Odds are that not all of them will show up to stroll the River Walk, visit the Alamo, stay in the city’s hotels and eat in its restaurants.

That’s the early impact of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and the resulting slow down in travel, but San Antonio travel officials hope that much of the business lost now can be made up longer term. Business and leisure visitors make tourism San Antonio’s No. 2 business behind the medical and health industry. The city, which is the top tourist destination in Texas, draws more than $4 billion from 8 million visitors.

The first quarter is usually busiest for business visitors to San Antonio hotels, according to Doug Sutton at Source Strategies, a San Antonio firm that tracks hotels. Business heats up again in late September the summer heat abates, and continues into October and November. The slowdown will have less impact of the city’s leisure traveler, who visits historical site such as the Alamo and the theme parks in the summer.

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