MPI Study Finds Multicultural Meetings Increasing

Research released by Meeting Professionals International’s Multicultural Initiative last week found respondents from both the association and corporate world predicting an average 20 percent growth in multicultural meetings around the world. Interestingly, though, the meeting professionals didn’t agree on what "multicultural" means. For U.S. planners, the word describes people from different ethnic, religious, and racial backgrounds; for the rest of the world, "multicultural" means people