Close to business close to tourism welcome to the hampton inn corpus christi northwesti 37 a charming port city that caters as much to business as tourism the history of corpus christi dates back to 1519 thats when spanish explorer alonzo alvarez de pineda discovered this semi tropical bay on the roman catholic feast day of corpus christi hence the name since then corpus christi has become a regional center for marketing and distribution of agricultural commodities and boasts a loca