Industry Research

White Paper - Reimagining RFP Processes for International Association Meetings

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:00:00 +0100

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

The rise of the Latin American association market

Fri, 09 Aug 2019 09:16:35 +0200

Opportunities 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

Growth is imminent in the Asian - Pacific association space

Fri, 09 Aug 2019 08:58:39 +0200

How 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 �ֲ��ý Association Database consists of 11,000 international associations, an

The rapidly-growing Middle Eastern association market

Fri, 09 Aug 2019 08:25:13 +0200

The 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

The diversity of the European association market

Fri, 09 Aug 2019 06:46:32 +0200

Europe 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 �ֲ��ý Country

The renaissance of the African continent

Fri, 09 Aug 2019 04:33:31 +0200

According to �ֲ��ý’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

The association man: Octavio B Peralta on his passion for association management

Wed, 24 Jul 2019 04:25:33 +0200

In an interview in the , 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

Disrupted: How the traditionally risk-averse association sector is reinventing itself

Fri, 06 Apr 2018 09:47:51 +0200

This article was originally published in '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

Guest Blog: Association Man -

Thu, 03 Aug 2017 10:59:31 +0200

Association 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

It's time to face our scary beasts

Tue, 11 Apr 2017 08:06:40 +0200

There 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