It’s a high-water-mark year for the ASAE Annual Meeting & Exposition: The 2013 conference, which concluded August 6, logged the largest association executive attendance since the 2008 meeting. About 20 percent of those attendees will book a meeting in Atlanta in the next five years, generating an estimated additional $500 million in revenue to the city over the next decade, said ASAE President and CEO John H. Graham IV, CAE, at an onsite press conference.

“It’s good news for the industry, good news for Atlanta, and good news for ASAE,” said Graham.

As of Friday, August 9, these were the grand totals:

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