2021, The Meeting Industry Continues to Depend on Virtual Events
The meeting industry is still quite apprehensive of how event trends will be shaping up this year. Some are optimistic, while some still fear a complete in-person scenario. A lot depends upon the success of the vaccines and the behavior of the virus. But the show must go on and one must be prepared to act according to the flow and show enough preparedness to face every situation with innovation. Breaking all challenges and making the most from the given circumstance is how the meeting industry will need to regard the situation in the forthcoming months. Let’s go through some predicted trends in 2021. There will be a 50/50 balance between hybrid and virtual meetings. These will be largely driven by attendee experience, performance trends of the industry, the meeting destination trend and the meeting planning trend. How prepared is 2021 for in-person meetings? Going by how events are being conducted safely it could be predicted that by the second quarter of 2021, there might be an attem