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Early Meeting Predictions for 2016

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“While the news of overall growth is positive, the report also sounds a note of caution,” CWT said in a press release. “As Here’s a deeper look at the report’s global predictions: Sellers’ market in North America. Globally, hotel prices are predicted to increase by 2.5 percent next year. percent next year.

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Associations Share Industry Predictions for 2017

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A rise in home prices and sales. The National Association of Realtors expects home sales to increase modestly and home prices to increase at a more moderate pace in 2017—and even 2018. Prices continue to increase … creating a challenge that might offset some of the positive things we’ve seen in the economy,” he said.

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Trends Report: What Could 2015 Look Like for Association Meetings?

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“The newest installment of the quarterly special report shows [that] increasing costs for services across the meeting and event spectrum in concert with only slight budgetary growth is setting up a more challenging year ahead,” said MPI in a press release [PDF]. percent increase in revenue per available room this year and a 7.4

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