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Meeting Planners
Thank you for thinking of Baltimore:
Baltimore is enjoying a second renaissance, with more than $1 billion
of development projects underway. Add to that an ever-changing variety
of attractions with new exhibits and services and you are guaranteed
to find something new to see and experience in Baltimore.
Convention Center:
Situated at the very center of Baltimore's renewed downtown is the
Baltimore Convention
Center, linked by overhead walkways to the Inner Harbor, hotels
and fine dinning on one end and just across the street from Oriole
Park at Camden Yards on the other. One of the most flexible, well-equipped
facilities in the country, the Convention Center has been fully
expanded. The expansion has allowed the facility to literally triple
in size.
- 300,000 contiguous square feet of exhibit space
- 26 covered loading docks with direct drive in access through
overhead doors
- 54 carpeted meeting rooms holding 85-1,600 people totaling 116,000
square feet
- 36,672 square foot multifunction hotel quality ballroom holding
3,500 people theater-style
Hotel:
Baltimore is serious about growth and has adopted an aggressive
strategy to provide additional hotel accommodations for the growing
number of convention and leisure visitors coming to town each year.
Currently Baltimore has approximately 6,500 hotel rooms in the downtown
area, the majority of which are within walking distance to the newly
expanded Baltimore Convention Center and all the major attractions.
There are several new major convention hotels on the drawing board
which are anticipated to come online within the next few years allowing
Baltimore to compete for approximately 80-85% of all convention
business.
Reasons why you should bring your group to Baltimore
- Baltimore-Washington International Airport (BWI) is 15 minutes
from downtown and has the most affordable airfares on the east
cost
- The newly expanded Baltimore Convention Center has 300,000 square
feet of contiguous exhibition space, 116,000 square feet of meeting
space including a 36,000-square-foot ballroom.
- Most of the city's hotels and attractions are within walking
distance from the Convention Center
- Nine major national and international hotel chains have properties
in Baltimore
- Water taxis can take you to 35 attractions and five different
neighborhoods around the Inner Harbor
- Baltimore's world-renowned Chesapeake Bay cuisine is served
year-round in an array of first class restaurants within this
same walking distance
- Our Inner Harbor provides breathtaking views of the sunrise
and sunsets seen from many of our hotel rooms
- Two of the nation's top medical institutions are in Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Medical Institutions and University of
Maryland Medical Center
- The National Aquarium in Baltimore has more than 10,000 species
on display and is open 363 days a year and provides a wonderful
venue for special events
- Our Maryland Science Center and Power Plant are equally intriguing
and are also located in the Inner Harbor and are very conducive
for opening receptions and special events of all kinds
- Most of all, Baltimore provides first class hotels, attractions,
cultural institutions, and a smorgasbord of restaurants, entertainment
venues, shopping and an eclectic pub crawl area, all within a
close proximity of its major meeting facilities - something very
few cities in the U.S. can claim
- Baltimore provides a unique convention experience and is quickly
becoming the destination of choice in the Mid-Atlantic corridor
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