IACC External Meetings Demand Report 2022

A student research team at the Hotel Management School Maastricht, conducted research into the influence workplace decentralisation may have on external meeting and conference venue demand. 


Management Summary
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Preface
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Table of Contents
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Chapter 1: Introduction
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1.1 Background
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1.2 Actual assignment
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1.3 The Scope of the Project
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1.4 Management Question
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1.5 Purpose of Research
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1.6 Report Structure
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Chapter 2: Exploratory research
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2.1 Environmental Research
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2.1.1 Current Trends in the Meeting Industry
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2.1.2 Decentralisation of the Work Environment
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2.1.3 The Rising Importance of Technology in a Decentralised work Environment
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2.2 Literature Research
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2.2.1 Organisational change
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2.2.3 Transformation Post Pandemic
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2.2.4 The constantly Changing Customer Expectations
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Chapter 3: The Methodology
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3.1 Research Questions
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3.1.1 Research Method per Research Question
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3.2 Research Method - Literature Research
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3.2.1 Process of Collecting Secondary Data
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3.2.2 Validity and Reliability of the Desk Research
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3.3 Research Method – Online Survey
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3.3.1. Target group
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3.3.2 Design of the survey
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3.3.3 Validity & Reliability
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3.3.4 Data Collection
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3.3.5 Data Analysis
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3.4 Research Method - Semi-structured Interviews
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3.4.1 Target group
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3.4.2 Design of the interview
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3.4.3 Validity & Reliability
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3.4.4 Data Collection
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3.4.5 Data Analysis
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Chapter 4: Results & Analysis
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4.1 Analysis of the Survey
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4.1.1 What are the companies currently doing internally?
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4.1.2 How, when, and for what reason will companies meet?
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4.2 Analysis of the Interviews
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4.2.1. The office has a different purpose
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4.2.2 Changing motives to meet
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4.2.3 Decisions and changes made within the company
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4.2.4 Usage of External Venues
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4.2.5 Face-to-face vs. virtual meetings
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4.2.6 Decision Making Factors
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4.2.7 Trends in the Meeting Industry
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4.3 Literature Research
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4.4 Final topics
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Chapter 5: Conclusion and Recommendations
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5.1 Answers and recommendations to the Research Questions
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5.2 Answer to the Management Question
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Chapter 6: Research limitations
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6.1 Survey Limitations
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6.2 Interview limitations
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6.3 General limitations
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6.4 Future research
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Glossary
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Bibliography
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Appendices
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Appendix 1: Mindmap of Ideas
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Appendix 2: CRAAP Test
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Appendix 3: Survey Questionnaire
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Appendix 4: Structure of the Categories
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Appendix 5: The Interview Questions Scheme
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Appendix 6: Open Questions Survey
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