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Meet Minneapolis, the city's convention and visitors bureau, has unveiled a new logo and website as part of an effort to attract more convention business and leisure travelers.

At a news conference in downtown Minneapolis today, Meet Minneapolis introduced the logo, which features the city's skyline with reflections of four iconic buildings -- City Hall, the IDS Tower, the Capella Tower at 225 S. Sixth St., and the Foshay Tower -- as trees. The organization says the logo will be the visible mark of an overall brand position called "Metropolitan by Nature." Meet Minneapolis says it will use the brand position to market and sell Minneapolis.

Mayor R.T. Rybak attended the event and said attracting conventions and leisure travelers to the city will help create hospitality jobs.

Meet Minneapolis hopes to increase the number of domestic and international visitors by 300,000, which would create 500 additional hospitality jobs in the city, according to the organization's news release.

includes information on leisure travel, meeting planning and the Minneapolis Convention Center. It also has a way for potential visitors to create itineraries.

Here's what the new website has to say about the new logo:

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Elizabeth Dunbar

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Meet Minneapolis, the city's convention and visitors bureau, has unveiled a new logo and website as part of an effort to attract more convention business and leisure travelers.


See the new logo aimed at luring more people to Mpls

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