WASHINGTON: As the nation gears up for the inauguration of Barack Obama as its 44th president on January 20, a number of organizations around Washington are developing communications plans to prepare for an expected flood of visitors.
 
Destination DC, the city's tourism marketing arm, is working closely with a number of groups, such as the mayor's office, the DC police, and the Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (Metro), to position itself as a central source of inauguration-related information for the media, ...