The Ann Arbor Convention and Visitors Bureau say the 4 million visitors to Washtenaw County in 2006 spent $431 million—a 5.4 percent increase from the previous year.
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"We are attracting a higher percentage of travelers from outside the state, and that has a great deal to do with the University of Michigan and the diversity of business here,'' said Mary Kerr, president of the Ann Arbor visitors bureau. "We are pursuing more business having to do with emerging markets such as life sciences.''
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