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CLINICAL NEWS 787 1,131 759 Wilkommen! 944 992 Last year, the greatest number of international attendees came from Germany, with 1,131 attendees, followed by: Japan: 992 Canada: 944 United Kingdom: 787 France: 759 All Hands on Deck! A lot goes into setting the stage for the ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition: 300 workers 21,000 man-hours 36,000 square feet 1.25 million pounds 150 trailers put in And the Real Reason You’re Here… Stop by the ASH Booth (#1505) in the exhibition hall to get your hands on one of the 3,500 pens or 3,500 luggage tags that we’ll be giving away! to set up and dismantle the elements of the exhibition hall, including of graphics, signs, and banners. They also handle of exhibitor freight and Home Away from Home A record number of attendees are descending upon Orlando for the ASH annual meeting, and they’ll all need places to stay. Meeting organizers have 55 hotels blocked for attendees this year, with 17,500 rooms reserved on each peak night. worth of equipment (that’s 131 more trailers than the Rolling Stones tour and 124 more than Taylor Swift’s last tour). ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition Taylor Swift The Rolling Stones ASHClinicalNews.org ASH Clinical News 43