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Visitors spend about $680 per party per visit or $91 per person per day while in Springfield.

Convention delegates spend about $150 per person per day when visiting a city the same size as Springfield.

Travelers spend nearly $600 million in Springfield each year.

Tourism in Greene County annually generates more than $29 million in state tax revenues.

Tourism is responsible for about 25 percent of sales tax collected in Springfield.

More than 13,300 people 9.5 percent of the work force are employed in leisure and hospitality in Greene County.

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