The increasing significance of the convention business to the economy of resorts

Abstract

The conventions, conferences, assemblies, meetings and transient trade shows of voluntary membership organizations may be grouped together under the general heading of “conventions”. Conventions have been growing in number and size throughout the world as the necessity of the interchange of information and specialized knowledge increases. In the professional, academic, and business fields, the mutual benefits obtained through personal contacts, the main reason for holding conventions, foster expanding attendance. Continuing improvements in the ease and efficiency of communications and transportation have been instrumental in facilitating more national and international conventions. It is as though the growing usage of electronic means of communications have stimulated rather than replaced face‐to‐face exchanges of ideas and of data.