Now there are 10,400, roughly 7,500 of which are in the area of Arundel Mills and BWI Marshall Airport. When she started in the position in 2003, there were about 7,200 hotel rooms in the county. Hotel revenues were up about 7 percent in April, she said, but recently 'a lot of hotels have had to reduce their rates to compete,' given the expansion in supply. 'They were looking at how to bring conventions back, how to get this shore town to be a destination resort.'Ī hotel at Maryland Live would be entering a crowded market that has been flooded with hotel rooms in the past few years, said Connie Del Signore, CEO and president of the Annapolis and Anne Arundel County Conference and Visitors Bureau. 'It goes all the way back,' said Matthew Levinson, chairman and CEO of the New Jersey Casino Control Commission. New Jersey legislators enshrined the hotel-casino connection in law originally to pursue the goal of reviving tourist and convention trade in Atlantic City, which had thrived as a destination in the 1920s and later faded.

A 2011 law established a license for so-called 'boutique' casinos - smaller gambling floors attached to hotels of at least 200 rooms. The New Jersey law that legalized casino gambling required that all casinos be connected to hotels of at least 500 rooms. Located on the banks of the Potomac River, Gaylord National Resort is the pillar of the vibrant National Harbor, Md.

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