The RFP models currently used across the international association sector were largely designed more than two decades ago, before the urgency of climate change, before sustainability and ESG reporting became standard practice, and before expectations expanded to include inclusion, belonging, and…
Read MoreOpportunities for the Association Market in the Latin American and Caribbean region The association sector has seen a significant growth in the Latin American and Caribbean region, from 255 associations represented at the beginning of 2000 to 620 active representations in 2019. This has enabled the…
Read MoreHow many international associations are there? The short answer: a lot. While the nonprofit sector remains vast and diverse, its numbers have increased tremendously within the last decade. According to current data, the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Association Database consists of 11,000 international associations, an…
Read MoreThe association sector has seen a significance growth in importance in the Middle East in recent years, driven by an educated, professional middle class; a desire for professional education, standards and accreditations; and an understanding by international associations that this is a market of…
Read MoreEurope remains the most popular region for association meetings In the last 55 years, Europe has consistently attracted the highest number of association meetings per region, possessing an overall market share of 53.6%. European countries occupy four of the top five places in the 2018 ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Country…
Read MoreAccording to ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½’s industry report released in October 2018, which charts the 55-year growth of the association meetings market from 1963-2017, the international association sector is robust, steady, and growing at a healthy rate. In summary: the number of international association meetings doubled…
Read MoreIn an interview in the July 2019 issue of TTG Associations, Octavio B Peralta - a man with many hats in the associations space - tells Rosa Ocampo about his true love for the profession of association management and recounts his ongoing journey of raising the standards of associations and the job…
Read MoreThis article was originally published in AMI Magazine's February 2018 edition. Disruption is everywhere – and it’s not just affecting how associations operate, but causing them to question their core business models. Exciting new ideas are emerging, as associations confound their reputation as…
Read MoreAssociation Meetings Programme: As CEO and founder of the Philippine Council of Associations and Association Executives (PCAAE), the country’s “association of associations”, I was invited to be part of the faculty of the Association Meetings Programme (AMP) organized by the International Congress…
Read MoreThere are two large elephants sharing the room with associations and our meetings, and it’s time we faced them. The first is the ever-increasing facility with which even the most complex information and knowledge can be accessed. This is steadily eroding the traditional monopoly that associations…
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