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About Visit Baltimore

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Mission Statement: Visit Baltimore generates economic benefits for Baltimore City through the attraction of convention, group and leisure visitors, and works to provide a positive experience for all guests.



Visit Baltimore is the official destination development and marketing organization for the Greater Baltimore region. Established in 1982, we are a 501(c)(6) not-for-profit corporation.

Visit Baltimore serves as the liaison between customers and stakeholders. Customers include meeting planners, tour operators, individual tourists and media. Stakeholders include government, citizens and member organizations. Member organizations represented include lodging, dining, arts, attractions, shopping, transportation, associations and government agencies.

Visit Baltimore helps generate economic benefits to the Greater Baltimore region through the power of collaboration and partnership.

Visit Baltimore inspires people to visit our great destination to experience the products and services offered by our stakeholders.

Visit Baltimore provides stakeholders with the necessary tools and information to make their products and services competitive in the marketplace.

Our vision is for all stakeholders and citizens of Greater Baltimore to support the local tourism industry because they understand how the economic benefits generated - jobs and taxes - improve their quality of life.

 

Visit Baltimore Executive Staff:

Tom Noonan
President & CEO

Sam Rogers 
Executive Vice President & CMO

Ron Melton
Chief Operations Officer


 

Amy Calvert
Vice President of Sales and Services

Bon Whiting
Vice President of Membership and Development

 

Directors of the 2012-2013 Baltimore Convention & Tourism Board:

Edwin F. Hale, Sr. Chairman
Chairman and CEO
Hale Properties/ Baltimore Blast

Robert Allen
General Manager
Renaissance Harborplace Hotel

Delegate Curt Anderson
Baltimore City Delegate

Jim Britton
Owner
Class Act Catering

Edie Brown
President
Edie Brown & Associates, Inc.

Councilman William H.
Cole IV
Baltimore City Council

Woody Collins
Executive VP of M&T Bank
President and COO of Mid-Atlantic
Region of M&T Bank

Mary Ann Cricchio
Owner
Da Mimmo's Italian Restaurant
of Little Italy

Peggy Daidakis
Executive Director
Baltimore Convention Center

Azikiwe DeVeaux
President
Events4GoodPeople, LLC

Dennis Dietz
General Manager
Days Inn Inner Harbor

Edward Dopkin
Vice President for Finance
The Classic Catering People

Vanessa Finney
Executive Vice President
Mid-Atlantic Nursery Trade Show, Inc.

Kirby Fowler
President
Downtown Partnership of Baltimore

 

 

Michael Frenz
Executive Director
Maryland Stadium Authority

Donald Fry
President
Greater Baltimore Committee

Bill Gilmore
Executive Director
Baltimore Office of Promotions
& The Arts

Spike Gjerde
Owner/Chef
Woodberry Kitchen

Kyle Kandel
Senior Vice President
Centerplate

Dominick Murray
Deputy Secretary
Maryland Department of Business
& Economic Development

Tom Noonan
President & CEO
Visit Baltimore

Kaliope Parthemos
Deputy Mayor
Office of the Mayor

Will Phillips
Manager
Under Armour GREEN

John Racanelli
CEO
National Aquarium

Frank Remesch
General Manager
1st Mariner Arena

Marianne Rowan-Braun
Vice President & Director of the Campaign for Shock Trauma
R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma

 


 

Ed Rudzinski
General Manager
Marriott Waterfront Hotel

Skipp Sanders, Ed.D.
Executive Director
Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture

Gail Smith-Howard
General Manager
Hyatt Regency Baltimore

Shelonda Stokes
President
greiBo Communications

Chuck G. Tildon, III
Vice President of
Marketing and Communications
United Way of Central Maryland

Mark Wasserman
Senior Vice President, External Affairs
University of Maryland Medical Systems

Linda Westgate
General Manager
Hilton Baltimore Convention Center Hotel

COUNCIL
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Steve Bers
Whiteford, Taylor & Preston

Elena DiPietro
Chief Solicitor, General Counsel
Baltimore City Law Department







 

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