Definition: Corporate meeting / business meeting

Category: Tourism

Definition:

Corporate meetings are those business-oriented meetings in which the participants represent the same company, corporate group, joint-venture, or client/provider relations.

Comments:

A corporate meeting generally has the following characteristics: it is not organised by an external organisation; the aim of the meeting is governed by the realisation of business and not mainly by the transmission of knowledge ; the number of companies represented is normally small, whether intra-firm (one single company) or inter-firm (two or more companies); interaction between participants is either non-competitive (no competition, since they belong to the same group), or the competition (if there are tensions within the group) is regulated in an oligopolistic manner (few enterprises are present). http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/statmanuals/files/KS-28-00-599-__-I-EN.pdf