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Welcome to the Spring 2022
Meetings Outlook Report
Optimism and excitement for in-person gatherings is holding strong and growing across multiple important metrics. While believing that the value proposition of meeting in-person has been fundamentally altered by the pandemic, networking opportunities may well be the biggest driving factor for event success this year.
Business conditions
Projected business conditions over the next year: second-highest “favorable” result we’ve had in the history of Meetings Outlook—only slightly surpassed by summer 2021 results. In fact, the majority of respondents anticipate business will be more than 10% better in the coming year.
Returning to normalcy
10% of respondents claim their business is already back to levels they’ve not seen since 2019. On the other hand, 64% of respondents don’t expect business to reach that level until 2023 or later.
Hiring challenges
Employment trends are stable with a slight increase in hiring; fewer respondents expressed difficulty finding suitable staff, compared to the previous quarter. This is a potentially important shift in trajectory for this topic.
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