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Specialist subjects and experts

Medicine & Sciences Social Sciences Computer Science

Direct conference organisers

No influence 17% Influenced to some extent 33% Significant influence 50%

Influence of Subvention Funding / In-kind Support on Destination Choice

Always important 24% Often important 60% Rarely important 5% Neither important nor unimportant 3% Never important 8% How often is support (e.g. subvention) influential in bid preparation for international conferences

PCOs

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Destinations – Do you provide financial support/free services to congress organisers?

60.7%

39.3%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%

Yes No

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Destinations – If yes, what kind of support? 64.9% 50.6% 36.4% 15.6% 7.8% 0.0%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%

Welcome Reception Cash Financial Support Free Public Transport Other Pre-Financing Model Insurance for Exchange Rate

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Who contributes directly to the subvention fund for your city?

58.1% 21.9% 10.5% 9.5%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%

Public Sector/City You, the Main Venue Other Suppliers Hotel

Percent

Subvention

Destinations

11% 6% 6% 17% 33% 39% 39% 44% 72%

Other Loans to use for marketing pre registrations Co funding research or legacy projects Help with gaining sponsorship Discounted accommodation packages Civic receptions Contribution to event marketing Discounts on venue costs Direct (cash) subsidy

Type of Subvention / In-kind Support provided

Subvention PCOs examples good practice

Canada – grants and favourable VAT arrangements Mexico favourable VAT status Istanbul – venue cost is negligible Thessaloniki – discounted venue plus social programme & volunteers Netherlands Pre Finance & Guarantee Fund

Subvention

PCOs examples of good practice

Vienna & Austria Melbourne & Australia Dublin & Ireland Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow UK Amsterdam / Holland Denmark, Thailand, and Malaysia

Subvention

Other examples

Lisbon offers ¤7,500 for 600 plus delegates and ¤50,000 for 3,600

• r more delegates.

Estonia offers up to ¤30,000 for large conference between now and 2022 –international, 3 days, 500+ overnight stays. Budget is ¤300,000 per year from 2015 to 2020 St Petersburg new fund 50 million roubles (£610,000) allocating up to 50% of costs to maximum 10 million roubles