Baja California Convention Center to Open in Rosarito Sandra Dibble - The San Diego Union-Tribune
go to original April 21, 2013

The Baja California Center, Rosarito’s new convention center. (Jack E. George/Baja.com)

ROSARITO BEACH — Baja California’s new convention center rises at the northern end of this beachside community, an oblong building with a wavy roof that overlooks the Pacific Ocean and a coastal toll road — but not much else.

Still, tourism promoters count on drawing visitors here from all corners of Mexico, luring them with regional attractions that include an internationally known Baja Med restaurant scene, a growing arts community, numerous domestic airport connections and proximity to shopping and tourism opportunities across the border in San Diego.

“It’s an exciting moment,” Baja California’s tourism secretary, Juan Tintos, said this month as he stepped past workmen putting finishing touches on the building in preparation for Tuesday’s inauguration. “If someone wants to have an event and serve dinner to 6,000 people, now there’s a place to do it.”

Known as the Baja California Center, the new facility includes a 100,000-square-foot exhibition hall, about one-fifth the size of the San Diego Convention Center’s main hall. Its opening comes as Baja California’s tourism industry seeks to redefine itself following a sharp drop-off in U.S. visitors in recent years.

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