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GSA2015 ANNUAL MEETING & EXPOSITION

Baltimore

2015 Travel Information

Baltimore is served by the Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport
(BWI; www.bwiairport.com/en), with more than 700 daily domestic and international flights.
Southwest Airlines offers the most nonstop flights daily, followed by Delta and US Airways.
BWI is about 11 miles/17 min. via taxi or rental car and 37 minutes via light rail from the
Baltimore Convention Center.

Baltimore is also served by 80 trains daily at the Amtrak Penn Station, 1515 North Charles Street.
For more information, check www.amtrak.com and/or call +1-800-USA-RAIL. Penn Station is
about three miles from the Baltimore Convention Center.

International Attendees

If you are visiting the United States from outside of the country and do not have U.S. citizenship,
you may require a visa; go to http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/visit/visitor.html
to learn more. You can obtain and print out GSA’s 2015 Annual Meeting invitation letter at
community/geosociety.org/gsa2015/attendeeinfo/travel.

Event Space Requests

Please let us know about your non-technical events by entering them into our
online event space request database. Space is reserved on a first-come, first-served
basis; in order to avoid increased fees, you must submit your request for meeting
rooms before the 5 June deadline. The event space request submission should be
used for the following:

• Meeting rooms to hold events (i.e., business meetings, luncheons, receptions,
etc.) at the Baltimore Convention Center or Hilton Baltimore—with no
food/beverage minimum or room rental fee from the facility/hotel;

• To ensure that your event is listed in the meeting program book, in the
personal scheduler, and the mobile app, as well as on the GSA website; and

• For off-site events (events that are not being held at the Baltimore
Convention Center or Hilton Baltimore).

Deadline: 5 June
GSA TODAY | MAY 2015
Photo courtesy of Visit Baltimore.
If your event is by “invitation only” or
“private” you can indicate that on your
submission to limit who has access to the
information. For example, for private
events, you simply check the “private” box
and the information won’t be included in
any of our listings. If your event is by invita-
tion only, please indicate that in the Notes
to GSA section.

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