FOR BETTER, FOR WORSE

Corporate Meetings & Incentives' reader survey takes the pulse of the incentive industry each year, asking meeting professionals about their preferences and practices. This year's results can be summed up as cautiously optimistic, with average per-qualifier spending in 2003 up 7.6 percent over 2002, and incentive travel budgets beginning to thaw. Only 52 percent of respondents report flat or decreasing budgets, compared to 63 percent in our previous survey.