A New Era of Event Planning
Revolutionize Your Event Strategy with the New CEIR Index
The CEIR Index is transforming the way you plan, forecast, budget and drive results across your organization. With robust features and forecasting through 2027, this platform, powered by Oxford Economics’ Symphony BI, tells you where your sector is headed and what that means for your events and your bottom line.
What makes the new CEIR Index different? 
- Forecasting Through 2027: Gain confidence in your go-to-market strategy by leveraging accurate forecasts tailored to your sector. Get forward-looking data for each sector you operate in, so you can build growth plans with clarity and confidence.
- Precision Budgeting: Confidently align your investments with historical performance and future sector forecasts.
- Dynamic Decision-Making: What was once a static report is now a robust, interactive platform with on-demand customization.
Features You’ll Love:
✔️ Enhanced Access: Leverage enterprise-wide capabilities for teams managing multiple shows.
✔️ Expanded Data Sets: Access historical data as far back as 2000 to identify long-term trends.
✔️ On-Demand Customization: Download charts to create impactful presentations tailored to your needs.
✔️ Robust, Interactive Tools: Dive deep into the data with heightened insights that are simple, actionable, and immediate.
With the new CEIR Index, you don’t have to guess anymore. You’ll know you’re budgeting and planning correctly, making smarter decisions backed by historical data and the forecasts that matter most for your sector.
Why now?
We’re not just post-pandemic—we’re living through major political and economic transition. With administration policy shifts emerging daily, there’s a lot of uncertainty around how those changes could impact the economy—and the future of trade shows. That’s why this tool matters now more than ever.
About the Index
The CEIR Index is designed to be representative of the entire universe of business-to-business exhibitions in the United States and includes geometrical averaging of the four component values – NSF, Exhibitor, Attendance and Revenue, forecasts through 2027 and data tables that provide actual numbers for each metric in each sector.
Industry sectors represented in the Index include:
- Business Services (BZ)
- Consumer Goods and Services (CG)
- Discretionary Consumer Goods and Services (CS)
- Education (ED)
- Food (FD)
- Financial, Legal and Real Estate (FN)
- Government (GV)
- Building, Construction, Home and Repair (HM)
- Industrial/Heavy Machinery and Finished Business Inputs (ID)
- Communications and Information Technology (IT)
- Medical and Health Care (MD)
- Raw Materials and Science (RM)
- Sporting Goods, Travel and Entertainment (ST)
- Transportation (TX)
Whether you’re building annual strategic plans, pricing models, or defending a growth roadmap, the CEIR Index turns your ideas into strategies.
Index Pro+
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$10,999 Non-Member Price
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Full CEIR Dashboard access
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Overall Exhibition Industry Data
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ALL Sector Analyses
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Historical Data from 2000 to 2027
Ideal for advanced users needing comprehensive industry trends over two decades.
Index Pro
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$5,999 Non-Member Price
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CEIR Dashboard access
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Overall Exhibition Industry Data
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ALL Sector Analyses
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Historical Data from 2010 to 2027
Ideal for users seeking robust, multi-sector insights over the past decade+.
Index Sector+
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$999 Non-Member Price
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CEIR Dashboard access
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Overall Exhibition Industry Data
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ONE Sector Analysis of Your Choice
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Historical Data from 2010 to 2027
Ideal for users focused on one specific sector with broader industry context.
Index Contributor Access
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Available only to data submitters
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CEIR Dashboard access
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Overall Exhibition Industry Data
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ONE Sector Analysis of Your Choice
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Historical Data from 2010 to 2027
Ideal for organizations that contribute data and need access to their sector’s analytics.