L’evoluzione della meeting industry in Italia. Lo sviluppo dal 2014 e le sfide all’innovazione nell’era della pandemia

[Autom. eng. transl.] The publication was created with the aim of summarizing the results of the analyzes conducted since 2014 by the Italian Observatory of Congresses and Events, the multi-year research project promoted by Federcongressi&eventi - a non-profit organization representing public and private operators of the Italian meeting industry - and created by ASERI-High School of Economics and International Relations of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart. The publication in the first months of 2023 of the results of the research conducted in the eight years of life of the Observatory appears fundamental not so much, or in any case not only, to attest to the growth path that the conference and events market has experienced in Italy since 2014 to 2019 - with an average annual growth rate composed of the number of meetings equal to +4.1% and the number of participants equal to +3.7% - as well as to document the effects of the unprecedented crisis that the venues for conferences and events they found themselves having to face with the explosion of the Covid-19 pandemic from March 2020 until at least mid-2021, as well as to testify to the timely reaction capacity of the sector in undertaking a progressive path to relaunching activities after the changes imposed by the crisis.