Meetings Outlook at IMEX America

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Meetings Outlook at IMEX America

By Michael Pinchera | Oct 13, 2023

Get a sneak peek at the results of the 2023 Q4 edition of MPI’s Meetings Outlook report during an MPI in-booth session (booth F431) at IMEX America on Tuesday, Oct. 17. 

Led by Tim Luepke from the MPI Academy and Mike Dominguez from ALHI—sponsor of this quarter’s Meetings Outlook—you’ll hear about the following data and much more!

  • The percentage of respondents expecting favorable business conditions over the next year (70%), while still very high, is the lowest we’ve seen since the landscape first turned around during the pandemic.
  • In-person attendance projections reveal similar expectations with 70% indicating favorable attendance trends for the next 12 months. While very high, that, too, is the biggest decline in “favorable” answers since the industry really started to turn around during the pandemic. Virtual attendance projections, however, continue to remain stable.
  • Difficulty in filling job vacancies has now floated at 52%-53% for three quarters in a row, but down from the highs seen in 2022. This suggests some solutions to the problem have worked through but other causes have yet to be cracked.

Those are just a few of the regularly checked data points in each edition of Meetings Outlook, but there’s much more interesting data to be revealed!

Visit the MPI booth (F431) at IMEX America on Tuesday, Oct. 17, tune into the webinar in early November or download the report (also out in November) to learn about event pro sentiment toward artificial intelligence and what’s keeping you and your peers up at night.

 

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Michael Pinchera

Michael Pinchera, MPI's managing editor, is an award-winning writer and editor as well as a speaker, technologist and contributor to business, academic and pop culture publications since 1997.