Research & Resources

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Trends Report 2025: Help — and Bleisure Time — Wanted

Hotel staffing shortages and bleisure trips will impact meeting professionals’ planning efforts — and their attendees’ experiences — in 2025. Part of Convene's Annual ...
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Budget Woes Top List of Event Planners’ Biggest Challenges

Results from Convene’s 31st Annual Meetings Market Survey show that a dramatic increase in AV costs — plus rising fees from venues and hotels ...
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Trends Report 2025: Event Attendees as Consumers First

How consumer behavior trends translate to business events: Meeting participants also are seeking connection with purpose. Part of Convene's Annual Events Industry Forecast ...
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Trends Report 2025: Meeting and Event ‘Destination Dupes’

A longtime event site-selection strategy is gaining strength — and it has a twin tactic on the leisure side. Part of Convene's Annual Events ...
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Trends Report 2025: An Eye on AI and the Planet

Event professionals’ proficiency using AI tools continues to grow. How about their green skills? Part of Convene's Annual Events Industry Forecast ...
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Trends Report 2025: Will Event Tech Costs Fuel Low-Tech Options?

The demand to create high-tech, awe-inducing spectacles at events could stretch planners’ budgets to the limit. Part of Convene's Annual Events Industry Forecast ...
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Trends Report 2025: The Rise of Humans in an AI World

A longtime event site-selection strategy is gaining strength — and it has a twin tactic on the leisure side. Part of Convene's Annual Events ...
Budget Pressures and Big Expectations: Insights From the Meetings Market Survey

Budget Pressures and Big Expectations: Insights From the Meetings Market Survey

Responses from business event organizers to the 31st Convene Meetings Market Survey reflect an acceptance of difficult market conditions, cautious optimism about the future, ...
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The Pitfalls of Predicting the Future

We’ve changed things up this year with our Annual Industry Forecast to give you more pointed insights for what may lie ahead ...
One Key to Preventing Your Team’s Burnout

One Key to Preventing Your Team’s Burnout

Work can be difficult, but it shouldn’t be difficult all the time, shows new research from a management professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s ...
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What Makes a Great Place to Work

Responses to Convene’s Annual Salary Survey 2024 confirm the qualities of a healthy workplace culture recognized by workplace culture company Great Place to Work ...
Salary Survey 2024: It’s Not You, It’s the Company Culture

Salary Survey 2024: It’s Not You, It’s the Company Culture

What’s the difference between planner respondents to this year’s Salary Survey who are happy in their jobs and those who are not? It doesn’t ...

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