TREND WATCH

Bigger Meetings and More of Them That's the bottom line of the 1998 Association Meetings Trends study recently published by the American Society of Association Executives. The study is updated every three years. The 1998 respondents reported a whopping 79 percent increase in educational seminars held and a 69 percent increase in conventions and meetings. Moreover, 50 percent of respondents reported an increase in meeting attendance since 1995, when the study was last conducted.