Spain is one of the most popular destinations for meetings worldwide and this is reflected in the data collected and the analysis carried out on the industry itself. The latest full year, 2014, ended with around a 6% increase in the number of congress tourists, according to several different studies. With balances yet to be closed, forecasts for 2015 also point to a significant increase: 60% of the members of the Spain Convention Bureau believe that 2015 will come to a close with a greater number of events; 44.8% believe that the number of attendees will rise and 38.5% predict an increase in daily expenditure. But most importantly: in spite of 2015 not being an especially favourable year for congress tourism due to electoral events, nobody believes that less events have been organised or that less congress tourists have visited the country.
