Northstar/Cvent Meetings Industry PULSE Survey

Planners report increased budgets to offset costs, their primary concern.

Northstar/Cvent Meetings Industry PULSE Survey
August 2023

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Planners will likely be increasing their budgets next year to account for rising costs, based on findings from the latest Northstar/Cvent Meetings Industry PULSE Survey. Among the highlights of this new research:

  • A plurality of planners (44 percent) report that their event budgets will increase next year, with six out of 10 of them growing the budget by more than 10 percent.
  • While some organizations will be adding staff, the percentage planning to do so is lower than it was two months ago.
  • More than half of respondents expect to be trained on how to use new AI tools for their jobs.

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