Pcma 2010

2010 PCMA/PCMA EDUCATION FOUNDATION/AMERICAN EXPRESS PLANNER INTENTIONS SURVEY by Michelle Russell Planners Are More Optimistic About Their Meetings   Last family - a brutal one for the meetings industry - Ypartnership conducted a trace for PCMA, the PCMA Education Foundation, and American Express to determine how a worthless economy and negative perception of meetings were affecting planners near-term intentions with respect to be after and hosting off-site meetings, conventions, and conferences. More than 500 planners weighed in. By most accounts, a course later, the economy is slowly turning around, and the media is less raise in scrutinizing where and how events are held. Are planners still feeling the catch fire? Not as much, according to the just-released results of the 2010 Meeting Planner Intentions Survey, once again commissioned by PCMA, the PCMA Education Foundation, and American Express, and conducted by Ypartnership. This posteriority to the 2009 survey measures the impact of the current economic and media environment on meetings planned for this year and 2011. Here are the top-line results, which compare 500-plus planners responses this year to last, and paint a much brighter picture. Weve bolded the events that indicate a big change. - Michelle Russell 1.

) Do you expect the total number of annual off-site meetings you sustain/host in 2010 and 2011 to increase, stay the same, or decrease compared to the number you booked in 2009?                           2009    2010    2011 Increase              9%      25%    31% Stay the same     47%    66%    62% Decrease             47%    10%     7% 2.) Do you expect the total number of annual off-site meetings you book/host in 2010 and 2011 to increase, stay the same, or decrease compared to the number you booked in 2009? 2. How many more off-site meetings do you estimate that you will  book per year in 2010 compared to 2009? In 2011?                2009 vs. 2008           2010/2011 vs. 2009                 ... If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay

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