Meet Cambridge, the official conference and events bureau for Cambridge, has reported an increase in enquiries.
Since the beginning of 2022, the team has helped 438 different organisations with 741 venue searches worth approximately £5.3m. These enquiries involved 38,559 day delegates, 40,919 diners and 5,319 residential guests.
Event organisers have also conducted site visits ahead of booking conferences, including the first for an international association since the pandemic.
Commenting on the enquiries, Judith Sloane, head of Meet Cambridge, said: “Although lead times are short (one to three months), there’s a clear message that people want to meet up. February saw a 56% increase in enquiries compared to the same month in 2019 and 2020.”
She added: “Three of the international association conferences that we have been working on over several years and which should have taken place over the pandemic, are now happening this year.”
Meet Cambridge is expected to welcome the International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences in August; the International Symposium on Veterinary Rehabilitation and Physical Therapy in August; and the Symposium of the Section of Epidemiology and Social Psychiatry of the European Psychiatric Association (EPA) in September.
