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IACVB Launches New Study: The International Association of Convention and Visitors Bureaus, Washington, D.C., has launched a new Convention and Expenditure Impact Study it hopes will standardize industry economic impact calculations and provide updated measures of the meetings and conventions industry. Beginning in March 2002, the study will survey event organizers, meeting delegates, and exhibiting companies in the U.S. and Canada, with final results to be published in the