IAPCO and its members continue to report growth year-on-year with the latest 2023 figures now available. Our annual reporting figures, based on data collected from all IAPCO members around the globe, show an increase in majority of areas including number of events delivered, number of meeting professionals employed and, importantly, the Economic Impact of the events delivered throughout the year.
Specifically, Economic Impact has risen from €13.48 billion in 2022 to €14.2 billion in 2023, number of events from 16,359 in 2022 to 17,044 in 2023 and number of meeting professional employed from 8,457 in 2022 to 9,248 in 2023. Although these results are just a snapshot of of the past year, the growth trend is very encouraging for IAPCO, our members and our global meetings industry as a whole. When assessed, together with all other indicators, the impact that IAPCO members continue to bring to both our industry and cities within which their events are delivered is extremely positive and attractive and proof of the value of business events around the globe.