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“Respect Our Buying Power”: Black Travel Influencers Unpack Representation; Community Building Between 2010 and 2018, the economic value of the Black travel movement grew to $68 billion. Photo by XX Liu/Unsplash By Greer Jackson, Howard University News Service An MMGY Global study released last year found that Black leisure travelers in the United States spent $109.4 billion on travel in 2019. Between 2010 and 2018, the economic value of the Black travel movement grew to $68 billion. Despite these numbers, the influence of Black travelers on the industry is still underappreciated. This was one of the points of discussion during a panel hosted by Blackprint, an employee resource group at the Meredith Corporation, in collaboration with Travel + Leisure magazine. The event was the second installment of a series on the Black experience in travel, as part of Meredith’s Black History Month celebration. ....