According to the survey on Lviv conference industry, conducted by Lviv Convention Bureau, during the first half of 2017 Lviv held 230 conferences. More than 33 000 delegates visited these events.
The busiest month for conference planners was May (66 conferences) and the lowest period occured to be in January (12).
The most popular spheres of conferences are science (33.5% of the total amount of events), service (16.9%), medicine (13.5%), IT (10%), business (9.6%), economics (5,65%), and law (3.9%).
Almost half of the total amount of conferences (112, or 48.7%), which took place in Lviv within six months, has national status. The number of local conferences is 75, or 32.6%. And only 43, or 18.7% of the total amount of conferences held in Lviv had international status.
We should note that in the first half of 2016 129 conferences were held in Lviv, attended by more than 30 thousand delegates.