Description: St. Louis annually welcomes over 26 million visitors. Those visitors spend $5.8 billion in St. Louis and help create 88,000 jobs for area residents generating annual wages of $3.22 billion.
St. Louis annually welcomes over 26 million visitors for leisure, conventions, meetings and business travel. These visitors spend $5.8 billion in St. Louis and help create 88,000 jobs for area residents generating annual wages of $3.22 billion. The America’s Center Convention Complex is a key part of driving our local travel and tourism industry and is hugely important for the City of St. Louis, St. Louis County and the State of Missouri. The convention center anchors an entire sub-sector of the City’s Down
The conventions, meetings and events held at America’s Center generate $258 million in direct spending making our convention complex a vital economic engine for the region. It is important to note that conventions impact the entire region as many of our largest conventions use hotels in both St. Louis City and County. In addition, when large conventions fill downtown hotels, hotels in the surrounding area experienced higher occupancy and rate performance.
On an annual basis, the complex hosts an average of 109 events generating over 600,000 attendees, 350,000 hotel room nights, and $258 million of direct spending to the regional economy, supporting the equivalent of 3,340 full-time jobs.