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78%
78% -- percentage preferring meeting with representatives for meeting planners (2025)
78 percent of meeting planners prefer meeting with representatives to inform their perceptions about a destination.
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78%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2025
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Evidence Quality
B
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Extraction
95
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
aboutdci.com
Primary
Tier A
https://aboutdci.com/blog/four-things-meeting-and-event-planners-dont-want/ ↗
Source Article
Four Things Meeting and Event Planners Don’t Want
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aboutdci.com
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Methodology
DCI survey of meeting planners
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meeting planners: 78% percentage preferring meeting with representatives. Source: aboutdci.com (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/meeting-planners-prefer-representative-meetings-2025
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