2028 Planner Trends 
Smart Meetings
JANUARY 10, 2025
Global meeting planners are exceeding expectations. Fred Dixon The global travel trends represent a significant milestonenot just recovering from the pandemic but building momentum for future growth, according to Brand USA President and CEO Fred Dixon. That number is up from 79 million in 2019. truly extraordinary, he said.
Smart Meetings
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
Partnering with agencies can reduce cost and save time In many scenarios, planners have limited resources on hand. That often means seeking out third-party agencies and independent planners to attain their goals and create a stellar event. According to Crosby this amounts to 20-30% of what a planner could have spent.
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Convene by PCMA
DECEMBER 6, 2024
This year, we took a different tack.Instead of those wide-ranging forecasts, Convene editors wrote succinct trends reports for each sector. Across many recent forecasts, the one consistent trend I see for 2025 is that the appetite for in-person gatherings will be stronger than ever.
Social Tables
APRIL 16, 2019
19 Event Trends for 2019 19 Event Trends Shaking Up Group Business & Meetings in 2019 from Social Tables An annual Social Tables tradition, our event trends report predicts the biggest changes to hit both planners and venues in the year ahead. We used the content to create an event trends blog post too!)
Smart Meetings
OCTOBER 14, 2021
The transport disrupter says this concept is set to begin construction in 2028. “We Uber has unveiled a flying-taxi concept in partnership with Hyundai that is capable of transporting passengers up to 60 miles at speeds of 180 miles per hour. We all knew Uber was going to get into helicopters, right?” Ludwig said.
Bizzaboo
APRIL 3, 2023
What’s more, Verified Market Research , a leading global research and consulting firm, expects the global events industry to bring in a whopping $2.194 trillion by 2028 — quite the uptick from the $887 billion the market commanded in 2020. We’ve come a long way from Q4 2021 when a mere 16.8% of events on Bizzabo’s platform were in-person.
Bizzaboo
JULY 12, 2022
What’s more, Verified Market Research , a leading global research and consulting firm, expects the global events industry to bring in a whopping $2.194 trillion by 2028 — quite the uptick from the $887 billion the market commanded in 2020. of event planners would only attend a physical event in-person if it was local ( EventMB , 2020).
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