Voters to decide on hotel occupancy tax increase on Dec. 10

BATON ROUGE – East Baton Rouge Parish residents will decide on a proposition authorizing a two percent hotel occupancy tax that would be added to hotel guests' nightly room rate on the Dec. 10th ballot.Proceeds from the tax would produce an estimated $2.6 million each year to fund tourism efforts in the Baton Rouge area while also supporting more than 7,000 local jobs impacted by tourism-related events and activities, officials say.Local leaders say passing the tax increase wo