1. MICE Tourism in Hungary Statistical Report for the Year 2010
Hungarian Convention Bureau

2. Criteria
In accordance with the criteria of ICCA, the Hungarian Convention Bureau considers a meeting international when there are at least 3 different nations and 50 participants present.
In contrast to the rules of ICCA and UIA, the HCB includes corporate events to the analysis, if they fulfill the above criteria.

3. MICE statistics, 2009 I-IV quarters
Number of questionnaires
sent out
returned
Answering rate
Event organizers
318
107
33,6%
Conference hotels
754
320
42,2%
Unique venues
405 52
12,8%
Total
1477
479
32,4%

4. Demographic distribution of answering companies, 2009

5. From the answering companies

6. Hungarian MICE tourism in numbers, 2002-2009
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
Number of international conferences
370
351
326
340
431
485
531
356
Number of international fairs and exhibitions 22 17 23 24 29 32 57 90
Average number of participating nationalities 11
9,22
11,7
10,6
11,1
11,56
9,2
12,3
Average length of international conferences
3,6
3,1 4
4,5
4,3
3,9
3,3

7. Temporal distribution of international conferences, 2009

8. Temporal distibution of international conferences, 2002-2009

9. Spatial distribution of international conferences, 2009
2008
2009
Countryside 92
20,7% 96
27,0%
Budapest
352
79,3%
260
73,0%

10. Length of international conferences, 2001-2009

11. Number of participants, 2004-2009

12. Average number of participants, 2001-2009

13. Average number of participants internationally, 2001-2009

14. Size of international conferences, 2002-2009

15. Spatial distribution of international conferences
2007
2008
2009
Conference hotels
68,90%
77,4%
74,7%
Congress centers
12,50%
14,4%
13,1%
Universities and other scientific institutions
10,40%
4,3%
8,1%
Other venues
8,30%
4,1%

16. Subject of international conferences, 2009

17. Subject of international conferences, 2002-2009
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
Medical
28%
26%
21%
29%
23,1%
23,4%
21,7%
26,9%
Economy
20%
20,5%
25,5%
16,7%
Scientific
22%
17%
24%
17,6%
19,6%
24,7%
13,2%
Transportation 4% 3% 2%
3,9%
2,1%
1,6% IT 7% 5%
11%
10,6%
6,3%
8,9%
7,3%
Tourism
1,9%
1,7%
1,4%
2,6%
Other
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12%
22,4%
21,3%
25,1%
31,2%

18. Nationality of participants, 2007-2009
2007
2008
2009
Hungarian
31,0%
22,1%
20,9%
Other
69,0%
76,9%
79,1%

19. Nationality of participants, 2009

20. Nationality of procurers, 2003-2009

21. Type of procurer of international conferences, 2009

22. Number and number of participants of „other” events, 2009

23. The statistical analysis can be downloaded: www. hcb
The statistical analysis can be downloaded: / Market Information/ Studies

24. Hungarian Convention Bureau H-1115 Budapest, Bartók Béla út 105-113
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