| Free Newsletters Maryland Tourism Officials Express High Hopes for This Year.
By June Arney, The Baltimore Sun Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
May 11--A great winter at Western Maryland resorts, the debut of Baltimore's new visitor center and the expectation of a big summer in Ocean City are converging in what could be a record year for tourism in the state.
"I'm being bold," Dennis M. Castleman, assistant secretary of Tourism, Film and the Arts in the Department of Business and Economic Development, said yesterday. "I believe we'll hit $9 billion for tourism expenditures."
Visitors spent $8.8 billion in Maryland i
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