Industry Research

This research examines four themes: the need for expertise on the part of event bookers; the need for companies and organisations to respect off-site training and its demands on delegates; connectivity with free and fast Wi-Fi in venues; price factors including hidden extras appearing on venue invoices to clients.

This research measures the size and scale of AEO members' international activity

This survey, done every 3-5 years, covers multiple aspects of meetings management by international organisations and associations. Designed to help all involved in the process of organising international meetings to get a sense of changes over the years and the challenges of the current environment. It is based on a questionnaire survey of international associations and covers topics such as: management of the association; regularity, timing, size etc of its meetings; who is the decision-maker and the event organiser; whether a bid manual is published; etc. The previous 2013 survey is also available for download.

Annual salary survey (focusing on USA and Canada)

The objective of the report is to provide ECM members with a monitoring and benchmarking tool supplying practical and actionable intelligence on the volume and the economic significance of convention business to city destinations. The report is based on a database containing information on more than 130,000 corporate and non-corporate meetings which took place in a sample of 58 European cities between 2009 and 2014. These meetings could be of international or national scope.