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**$325 billion**

The amount of direct spending generated by meetings held in the United States in 2016. That’s up 23 percent from 2009, primarily due to increases in the number of meeting participants.

[This article was originally published in the Associations Now print edition, titled “Data: Economic Significance of Meetings.”]

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