SAS® Global Forum Executive Conference 2008
Successfully Navigating "The World as It Will Be"
Making Business Transformation a Sustainable Strategy
Hotels/Travel
When you register online, you will be directed to the Housing Bureau managing our hotel room blocks via a link. You should select the Omni La Mansion del Rio.
Golf Outing
La Cantera - Resort Course
As an executive conference attendee, you may participate in a golf tournament at the prestigious Westin La Cantera Resort. Designed by Jay Morrish and Tom Weiskopf, the Resort Course sits atop one of San Antonio's highest points, in the beautiful Texas Hill Country. With its stunning beauty and tranquility, La Cantera's Resort Course offers you the golf experience of a lifetime.
San Antonio Tour By Motorcoach –
Three walking stops
(please wear comfortable shoes)
Tour registrants will gather at 7:45 a.m. in Salon J of the San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter for continental breakfast and tour check-in. The tour will depart the Marriott Rivercenter promptly at 8:30 a.m., taking you to these popular San Antonio landmarks before returning at 12:30 p.m.:
- The King William Historic District. This neighborhood features homes built in the late 1800s; participants will enjoy touring the Steves Homestead, an elegant three-story mansion built in 1876, and the Guenther House (1860), the home of Pioneer Flour Mill’s founding family. Pioneer has restored the home to welcome visitors as a museum, bakery and retail store.
- San Antonio Botanical Gardens and Lucile Halsell Conservatory. This 33-acre garden represents, in miniature, the diverse Texas landscape – from Hill Country wildflowers to formal rose gardens. The conservatory, with 90,000 square feet of climatically controlled structures, includes an exhibition hall, tropical house, desert house, palm house, fern room and orangery.
- San Jose Mission. San Antonio is the site of five Catholic missions built by the Spanish, who sought to expand their influence in North America through colonization and converting Native Americans. The most famous is the Alamo; the middle one of the five on the "Mission Trail" is Mission San Jose. The attractively rustic limestone church was constructed from about 1766 to 1782 and is perhaps the premier example of Spanish Baroque architecture in the United States.
San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter
