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Downtown Baltimore hotel occupancy is way down this summer
Baltimore Business Journal ^ | July 24, 2015 | by Asha Glover

Posted on 07/24/2015 3:24:33 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Baltimore’s hotel business is slumping this summer, just a year removed from a banner season for tourism and reflecting the lingering impact of April’s riots.

Hotels in downtown’s central business district posted an average occupancy rate of 73.3 percent in June, down from 82.5 percent in the year-ago month, according to data from travel research firm STR Inc. The occupancy rate in May dropped 17.1 percent to 64.7 percent.

As colleague Camille Harrison and myself reported in Friday’s cover story of the BBJ, hotels aren’t the only businesses feeling the sting from the riots.

Museums and attractions are struggling, and coming up with new ways to bring tourists back to Baltimore.

(Excerpt) Read more at bizjournals.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: baltimore; raceindustry
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Look at this LAME excuse from the article:

“Visit Baltimore, the city’s tourism arm, is running Internet radio and newspaper ads across the mid-Atlantic in effort to win back visitors. Tom Noonan, the agency’s CEO, says that Baltimore has seen tourism decline as a result of suburbanites being reluctant to return to their favorite city attractions.”

Oh yeh,,THAT’S the reason,,the suburbanites don’t want to come back to the city attractions.

Uh huh.


41 posted on 07/24/2015 4:10:31 PM PDT by austinaero
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

...probably due to fear of gun-toting TEA PARTY Extremists.

(watch, the media will blame us for their problems)


42 posted on 07/24/2015 4:10:55 PM PDT by BobL (REPUBLICANS - Fight for the WHITE VOTE...and you will win (see my 'profile' page))
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To: catnipman
I wonder if offering some new urban safari packages would increase the hotel occupancy rate?

I think that's an excellent idea! They could tour Baltimore in these vehicles:


43 posted on 07/24/2015 4:12:00 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'll vote for Jeb when Terri Schiavo endorses him.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Before the left destroyed Baltimore as they have done most large urban areas, I spent a day and a half in Baltimore with a blown clutch. A nice black family owned an auto parts store and went out of there way to get me fixed up with the right clutch that they drove all over the city to find and gave me a place for me to do the work myself as in 1975 I didn’t have money for labor. This was before the slimy leftists got people thinking they were getting a raw deal having to work for a living


44 posted on 07/24/2015 4:17:06 PM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

DUH!!!


45 posted on 07/24/2015 4:25:09 PM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: miserare

LOL! My wife and I just last night were joking how we must be insane for taking our kids down there two weekends from now. Every summer we go down to see the Orioles vs A’s series. We stay at the Hilton right across the street from Camden Yards and about .5 mile from the Inner Harbor. We still plan on walking to the Harbor... but not after dark.


46 posted on 07/24/2015 4:25:15 PM PDT by 07Jack
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To: barmag25

What’s going on now in Cincinnati??? Going there in two weeks....my home town! How different it is from 35 years ago where it was fabulous!


47 posted on 07/24/2015 4:26:26 PM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy

Not sure yet when the riots are planned.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/university-cincinnati-cops-fatal-shooting-unarmed-man-samuel/story?id=32620225


48 posted on 07/24/2015 4:33:08 PM PDT by barmag25
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To: rightwingcrazy

Methinks Shelley would require no apologies.
Spot on.


49 posted on 07/24/2015 5:21:02 PM PDT by mumblypeg (I've seen the future; brother it is murder. -L. Cohen)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I am shocked at the 64%
Who ?


50 posted on 07/24/2015 5:51:52 PM PDT by ncalburt ( Amnesty-media out in full force)
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To: Drew68
The other day on the ‘net there was a list of top ten tourist destinations to avoid. One of the top was Mogadishu
51 posted on 07/24/2015 5:54:45 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

To #1. Well, gollyyyy!. Dem white folks are getting survival smarts, aren’t they?

Baltimorons got what they voted for so why are they complaining? Proves that the majority of them are dogshit stupid. PERIOD.

You reap what you sow!


52 posted on 07/24/2015 6:02:12 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: cnsmom

After Obama started destroying this country, I was offered an opportunity to attend a business seminar in Chicago (which is like a week-long vacation); I declined on principle. I’ve been to other cities on such trips, but passed on Chicago for no other reason than that detestable POS. Did my little part to impoverish them...


53 posted on 07/24/2015 6:11:52 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: 07Jack

I’ve passed on free Devils tickets in Newark NJ (I used to go to games in the NJ Meadowlands); I wouldn’t spend a dime keeping Newark afloat.

Oddest place to put a hockey team...


54 posted on 07/24/2015 6:13:33 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; Abundy; Albion Wilde; AlwaysFree; AnnaSASsyFR; bayliving; BFM; Bigg Red; ...

Yep.

Maryland “Freak State” PING!


55 posted on 07/24/2015 7:39:29 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Cancer-free since 1988! US out of UN! UN out of US!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Our family has dreamed of a Baltimore vacation, but couldn’t ever really afford it. It’ll always be on our bucket list, though.

Baltimore, city where dreams are made. Gee whiz, I wish I was born there.

Have you been there? Is it really as wonderful as people say it is?


56 posted on 07/24/2015 8:54:35 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: 07Jack

That’s OK. You’re pretty safe in that immediate area.

Have fun!


57 posted on 07/28/2015 4:11:04 PM PDT by miserare (Rest in Peace, Officer John Wilding, Scranton PD.)
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To: 07Jack

Inner harbor! Yes! How I wish I could have some Phillips’ crabcakes right now.


58 posted on 07/28/2015 4:14:01 PM PDT by miserare (Rest in Peace, Officer John Wilding, Scranton PD.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Good. Live by liberalism, die by liberalism.


59 posted on 07/28/2015 4:20:27 PM PDT by Fledermaus (To hell with the Republican Party. I'm done with them. If I want a Lib Dem I'd vote for one.)
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