MICE Tourism in Hungary Statistical Report for the Year 2008 by the Hungarian Convention Bureau HUNGARIAN NATIONAL TOURIST OFFICE

Criteria Following the criteria of ICCA, the Hungarian Convention Bureau considers a meeting international where there is at least 3 different nations and 50 participants present. HUNGARY HUNGARIAN NATIONAL TOURIST OFFICE

MICE Statistics, all quarters 2008   Questionnaires sent out Number of returned questionnaires Answering rate Organizers 319 238 75% Conference hotels 701 470 67% Other venues 379 152 40% Total 1399 860 61% 100 km A 12 legtöbb kereskedelmi vendégéjszakával (2005) rendelkező városok vannak feltüntetve a térképen. A turisták maximum 1 órát hajlandóak buszozni a reptértől a szálláshelyükig. A kör a közúton lévő távolságot mutatja. Bük Sármelléktől és Bécstől is 100-110 km-re van. HUNGARY HUNGARIAN NATIONAL TOURIST OFFICE

Demographic distribution of respondent companies HUNGARY HUNGARIAN NATIONAL TOURIST OFFICE

Among the respondent companies HUNGARY HUNGARIAN NATIONAL TOURIST OFFICE

MICE tourism in numbers, 2002-2008   2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Nr. of international conferences 370 351 326 340 431 485 531 Nr. of international faires and exhibitions 22 17 23 24 29 32 57 Average number of participating countries 11 9,22 11,7 10,6 11,1 11,56 9,2 Average length of international conferences 3,6 3,1 4 4,5 4,3 3,9 HUNGARY HUNGARIAN NATIONAL TOURIST OFFICE

Temporal distribution of international conferences, 2008 HUNGARY HUNGARIAN NATIONAL TOURIST OFFICE

Temporal distibution of international conferences, 2001-2008 HUNGARY HUNGARIAN NATIONAL TOURIST OFFICE

Spatial distribution of international conferences   2007 2008 Countryside 141 29,97% 92 20,70% Budapest 344 70,03% 352 79,30% HUNGARY HUNGARIAN NATIONAL TOURIST OFFICE

Length of international conferences, 2001-2008 HUNGARY HUNGARIAN NATIONAL TOURIST OFFICE

Nr. of participants, 2004-2008 Budapest, Gellért fürdő HUNGARY

Average nr. of participants at international conferences, 2001-2008 HUNGARY

Size of international conferences, 2002-2008 HUNGARY HUNGARIAN NATIONAL TOURIST OFFICE

Location of international conferences, 2008   2007 2008 Conference hotels 326 68,9% 343 77,4% Congress centers 59 12,5% 64 14,4% Universities and other scientific institutions 49 10,4% 19 4,3% Other venues 39 8,3% 18 4,1% HUNGARY HUNGARIAN NATIONAL TOURIST OFFICE

Subject of international conferences, 2008 HUNGARY HUNGARIAN NATIONAL TOURIST OFFICE

Subject of international conferences, 2002-2008   2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Medical 28% 26% 21% 29% 23,10% 23,42% 21,70% Economic 20% 20,50% 25,53% 16,70% Scientific 22% 17% 24% 17,60% 19,62% 24,70% Transportation 4% 3% 2% 3,90% 2,11% 1,60% IT 7% 5% 11% 10,60% 6,33% 8,90% Tousism 1,90% 1,69% 1,40% Other --- 12% 22,40% 21,31% 25,10% HUNGARY HUNGARIAN NATIONAL TOURIST OFFICE

Proportion of Hungarian and foreign participants at international conferences   2007 2008 Hungarian 27598 31% 27 485 23% Foreign 62079 69% 92 015 77% HUNGARY HUNGARIAN NATIONAL TOURIST OFFICE

Nationality of participants at international conferences, 2008 HUNGARY HUNGARIAN NATIONAL TOURIST OFFICE

Nationality of conference procurer, 2008 az építészeti szakma legkiemelkedőbbnek mondott nemzetközi elismerését, a FIABCI Prix d'Excellence HUNGARY HUNGARIAN NATIONAL TOURIST OFFICE

Nr. and temporal distribution of further events in Hungary, 2008 HUNGARIAN NATIONAL TOURIST OFFICE

The analysis can be downloaded from: www.hcb.hu / Statistics az építészeti szakma legkiemelkedőbbnek mondott nemzetközi elismerését, a FIABCI Prix d'Excellence HUNGARY HUNGARIAN NATIONAL TOURIST OFFICE

Hungarian Convention Bureau H-1115 Budapest Bartók Béla str. 105-113 Tel.: +36 1 488-8640 Fax: +36 1 488-8641 az építészeti szakma legkiemelkedőbbnek mondott nemzetközi elismerését, a FIABCI Prix d'Excellence HUNGARY HUNGARIAN NATIONAL TOURIST OFFICE