MPI Meetings Outlook Reports Slightly Slowing Growth

February 2, 2017

Meeting Professionals International (MPI) has published its Meetings Outlook, 2017 Winter Edition. The latest installment of the quarterly report projects continued, but slightly slowing, growth endures, with some indications that the market isn’t strictly a seller’s or buyer’s market. A level of equilibrium is bring realized in the industry.

Key findings include the following:

Most respondents (68.2 percent) are optimistic or expect no negative change as a result of the U.S. presidential election.
Half of planner respondents for international association and corporate events as well as U.S. government meetings expect a worsening of business conditions.
23 percent of organizations that employ meeting and event professionals are increasing the number of employees and/or contractors due to new technology.
Attendance at live and virtual events is expected to grow by 1.3 percent and 2.4 percent, respectively.

To view the revised full report, visit www.mpiweb.org/meetingsoutlook. The report also is included in the print and digital versions of MPI’s The Meeting Professional magazine, February 2017 issue.

Meetings Outlook is developed in partnership with MGM Resorts International and supported in partnership with the IMEX Group.