Visit Baltimore, the city’s official tourism agency, predicted last year that fiscal 2014 would be a “banner year” for tourism, and it appears they were right.

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Kathy Wegman’s decorated panther figurine boasts thousands of tiny beads and rhinestones that flash bright jewel tones of blue, green and gold.

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Charm City’s conventions tourism industry is growing steadily, according to numbers released Thursday that show fiscal year 2012 as Baltimore’s third-most-successful year for booking convention attendees’ hotel rooms in advance.

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Saying he hopes to sharpen the city and region’s competitiveness, Brian C. Rogers, chairman and CIO of T. Rowe Price Group Inc., was named on Monday as the new chairman of the Greater Baltimore Committee. Rogers took over at the ...

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ANNAPOLIS — The boomerang politics of a small, but key, funding request for planning and design work for the Baltimore Convention Center project ended in victory for city legislators with hours to go in the 2012 General Assembly session. The ...

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ANNAPOLIS — The Maryland General Assembly is poised to retain an imperiled 22-year-old tax break for collectible coin dealers, which Gov. Martin O’Malley had sought to eliminate in next year’s budget. An Atlanta company threatened to move three annual Baltimore ...

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ANNAPOLIS — A Senate subcommittee adopted a measure in the capital budget on Thursday that would fund the planning and design of a proposed expansion to the Baltimore Convention Center with one caveat. The Budget and Taxation capital budget subcommittee ...

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The recently released feasibility study of the concept of a combined arena-convention center expansion project near Baltimore’s Inner Harbor deals head-on with key issues raised and debated in the wake of the Greater Baltimore Committee’s announcement last May to champion ...

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A feasibility study has found that the proposed expansion of the Baltimore Convention Center plus a new arena and hotel could increase annual direct spending by as much as $181.6 million in the city and support as many as 3,100 ...

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