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Overview and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2018
New Accounting Pronouncements Or Change In Accounting Principle [Line Items] |
Revenue in Consolidated Statement of Operations | Prior to January 1, 2018, we presented revenue in our Consolidated Statements of Operations in three separate line items as follows:
|  | Year Ended December 31, |
(in thousands) |  | 2017 |  |  | 2016 |
Revenue: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Exhibition and event services |  | $ | 967,352 |  |  | $ | 881,137 |
Exhibits and environments |  |  | 165,745 |  |  |  | 170,469 |
Pursuit services |  |  | 173,868 |  |  |  | 153,364 |
Total revenue |  | $ | 1,306,965 |  |  | $ | 1,204,970 |
In connection with the adoption of Topic 606, we changed the presentation of revenue in our Consolidated Statements of Operations and now present total services revenue and total products revenue. As a result, we changed the prior reporting period to conform to the current period presentation as follows:
|  | Year Ended December 31, |
(in thousands) |  | 2017 |  |  | 2016 |
Revenue: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Services |  | $ | 1,132,424 |  |  | $ | 1,050,729 |
Products |  |  | 174,541 |  |  |  | 154,241 |
Total revenue |  | $ | 1,306,965 |  |  | $ | 1,204,970 |
ASU 2017-07 |
New Accounting Pronouncements Or Change In Accounting Principle [Line Items] |
Impact of Recent Accounting Pronouncements on Consolidated Statement of Operations | The following table also summarizes the impact of adopting ASU 2017-07 on our Consolidated Statements of Operations:
|  | Year Ended December 31, 2017 |
(in thousands) |  | As Previously Reported |  |  | Reclassifications to Conform with Revenue Presentation |  |  | ASU 2017-07 |  |  | As Newly Reported |
Cost of services |  | $ | 1,050,547 |  |  | $ | 3,911 |  |  | $ | (1,547 | ) |  | $ | 1,052,911 |
Cost of products |  | $ | 161,992 |  |  | $ | (3,911 | ) |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 158,081 |
Corporate activities |  | $ | 12,877 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | (481 | ) |  | $ | 12,396 |
Other expense |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 2,028 |  |  | $ | 2,028 |
|  | Year Ended December 31, 2016 |
(in thousands) |  | As Previously Reported |  |  | Reclassifications to Conform with Revenue Presentation |  |  | ASU 2017-07 |  |  | As Newly Reported |
Cost of services |  | $ | 954,667 |  |  | $ | 12,827 |  |  | $ | (926 | ) |  | $ | 966,568 |
Cost of products |  | $ | 165,118 |  |  | $ | (12,827 | ) |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 152,291 |
Corporate activities |  | $ | 10,322 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | (730 | ) |  | $ | 9,592 |
Other expense |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 1,656 |  |  | $ | 1,656 |

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