The Hampton Inn Van Buren is ideally located off I-40 proximate to several corporate and leisure demand generators. Located less than 5 miles from the Hotel is the headquarters of USA Truck, a long-haul trucking and logistics provider that was recently acquired and taken private in a $435 million transaction. Additionally driving corporate demand to the area are the food processing plants of Simmons Food which can produce more than 110 million pounds of fully cooked chicken products annually and are currently undergoing a $100 million expansion that will nearly double production capacity. Capturing leisure demand is Downtown Van Buren, which features a number of local eateries and attractions such as the beautifully restored King Opera House and the nearby 1838 restored Drennon-Scott House Museum. Van Buren is located just across the Arkansas River from Fort Smith, the third-largest city in Arkansas which is home to corporate demand generators such as OK Foods, Union Pacific Railroad, Tyson, Planters, and QualServ. The city also features leisure demand generators such as the Fort Smith Museum of History, the newly built United States Marshals Museum, and the Fort Smith National Historic Site. Connecting travelers to the area is the Fort Smith Regional Airport which served approximately 120,000 passengers in 2024. The airport is currently undergoing infrastructure upgrades that will prepare it for when the adjacent Ebbing Air National Guard Base becomes a long-term foreign military pilot training center. The training center is estimated to require approximately $500 million in investment and will result in a nearly $1 billion economic impact on the area when upgrades are complete in 2028.