Meeting planner confidence that face-to-face meetings will resume in 2020 significantly has dimmed over the past month, according to i-Meet's weekly Planner Confidence Index online survey of 291 planners.
The percentage of respondents who expect to restart face-to-face meetings during the fourth quarter fell from 38 percent on May 18 to 25 percent for the week ending June 21. The percentage of surveyed planners who think events won't return until 2021 jumped from 38 percent to 61 percent during this period.
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About 73 percent of corporate planners who completed last week's survey indicated they expect to resume in-person events in 2021, compared with 20 percent who plan to do so in the fourth quarter. This aligns with third-party meeting manager respondents, at 69 percent and 21 percent, respectively.
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