Tourism in Baltimore is on its way back, but investment in the city’s aging convention center will be critical to compete with nearby destinations vying for big meetings and events.
That was the message the city’s convention and tourism bureau delivered to several hundred hospitality professionals, elected officials and others at Visit Baltimore’s annual meeting Thursday afternoon.
“We are still rebounding from the pandemic,” Visit Baltimore President and CEO Al Hutchinson said in an interview Thursday. “2019 was the best numbers we’ve ever had in the industry, but 2020 changed the world.”
Since the coronavirus pandemic, which battered the hospitality sector in Baltimore and across the nation and canceled conventions for months, the number of events and hotel bookings in the city has been increasing slowly.
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