MPI Report Forecasts ‘Intelligent Growth’ for Meetings Industry

Meeting Professionals International (MPI) has published its Meetings Outlook, 2015 Spring Edition. The newest installment of the quarterly special report indicates 2015 is shaping up to be the year of intelligent growth for the meeting and event industry due to continuing periods of stability and moderate economic improvement.

Key findings include the following:

• 74 percent of meeting professionals expect overall business conditions to improve in the near future.
• Location-based functions (specifically, seamless check-in and facilitating attendee networking) are the top components that respondents plan to add to their apps next year.
• A greater percentage of respondents predict an increase in live attendance (60 percent) than virtual attendance (56 percent).

Meetings Outlook is developed in partnership with Visit Denver, The Convention & Visitors Bureau, and is supported in partnership with the IMEX Group.

To view the full report, visit www.mpiweb.org/meetingsoutlook.