Boston CVB Loses Sales Contract

With only 11 groups on the books at Boston’s new, $800 million convention center, the state has taken an unpredecented new approach to its sales efforts—including giving away space. The Massachusetts Convention Center Authority, charged with bringing conventions to the existing Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center in Boston's Back Bay and to the new Boston Convention and Exposition Center opening in 2004 in South Boston, has created a separate entity to sell the two centers. That removes