Industry Research

This annual research provides statistics and trends for international organisations' events. The report includes the number of qualifying international meetings per country and per city; trends in participant numbers and meeting dates; top 10 ranking; five year preview of future top countries and cities where meetings are planned. Past editions of the report are also available at a reduced price in PDF format, going back to 2000.

This is the first phase of a 3-phase study seeking to highlight best practices in destination marketing organisation strategy in the 21st century. The initial results are based on responses from 327 DMOs worldwide. The Phase 1 study research identified three transformational opportunities for DMOs: interacting with and leveraging the new marketplace; growing and sustaining the destination brand; evaluating and evolving the DMO business model

This in-depth report is the result of five years of research and seeks to identify the critical factors for the success of European meeting venues with a capacity of at least 2,000 (in plenary session, in a theatre set-up) in the main hall, covering 34 countries in Western and Eastern Europe and in the Mediterranean rim.

This annual survey of IAPCO members' activities is undertaken to identify the position of IAPCO members in the global meetings marketplace. It shows that, in 2014, IAPCO members organised 7075 meetings worldwide totalling over 2.86 million delegates and more than 0.63 million metres of exhibits, representing an economic impact of over 4.63 billion euros.

This study builds on an earlier 2012 study and is based on responses from 212 meeting planners with global meeting planning responsibilities. It looks at best practices by destination marketing organisations (DMOs) from a planner's perspective, but also includes information on challenges facing the industry. It also identifies the most and least successful DMOs.