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Area code	State	Location	Related
201	NJ	N New Jersey: Jersey City, Hackensack	973, 551
202	DC	Washington, D.C.
203	CT	Connecticut	860
204	MB	Manitoba Canada
205	AL	Alabama (including Huntsville and Birmingham; excludes only the southeastern corner of Alabama and the deep south.)	256, 334
206	WA	W. Washington state: Seattle	253, 360, 425, 564
207	ME	Maine
208	ID	Idaho
209	CA	Central California	559
210	TX	San Antonio S. Texas	830, 956
212	NY	New York City, New York	646,718
213	CA	Los Angeles California	310, 626, 818
214	TX	Dallas Texas	469, 972
215	PA	Philadelphia Pennsylvania	267
216	OH	Cleveland	330, 440
217	IL	Central Illinois
218	MN	North Minnesota
219	IN	North Indiana	260, 574
224	IL	Northern NE Illinois	847
225	LA	Louisiana: Baton Rouge, New Roads, Donaldsonville, Albany, Gonzales, Greensburg, Plaquemine, Vacherie	504
226	ON	SW Ontario Canada
228	MS	South Mississippi	601
229	GA	SW Georgia	912, 478
231	MI	Michigan	248, 810
234	OH	NE Ohio	330
236	VA	Virginia
239	FL	Florida	305
240	MD	West Maryland: Silver Spring, Frederick	301
242		Bahamas
246		Barbados
248	MI	Michigan: Oakland county	231, 810, 947
250	BC	British Columbia	604
251	AL	South Alabama	205, 256, 334
252	NC	NE Carolina	919
253	WA	South Washington	206, 425, 564
254	TX	Central Texas	817, 940
256	AL	North and East Alabama	205, 334
260	IN	NE Indiana	219
262	WI	Wisconsin	414, 920
264		Anguilla	809
267	PA	SE Pennsylvania: Philadelphia	215
268		Antigua and Barbuda	809
269	MI	SW Michigan	616
270	KY	West Kentucky	502
276	VA	South Virginia	540
278	MI	Michigan	734
280	MD	Maryland	240, 301
281	TX	Texas: Houston Metro	713, 832
282	IL	Illinois	309
283	OH	SW Ohio	513
284		British Virgin Islands	809
289	ON	South Central Canada	905
301	MD	W Maryland: Silver Spring, Frederick	240
302	DE	Delaware
303	CO	Central Colorado: Denver	720, 970
304	WV	West Virginia
305	FL	SE Florida: Miami	239, 786, 954
306	SK	Saskatchewan Canada
307	WY	Wyoming
308	NE	West Nebraska
309	IL	West Central Illinois	282
310	CA	South California: Los Angeles	424, 562
311	-	Reserved / Municipal Assistance.
312	IL	Chicago, Illinois (Downtown only)	630, 773, 847, 872
313	MI	Detroit and suburbs	734
314	MO	SE Missouri: St Louis metro area only	557, 573, 636
315	NY	North Central New York
316	KS	South Kansas	620
317	IN	Central Indiana	765
318	LA	Northern Louisiana	337, 504
319	IA	East Iowa	319
320	MN	Central. Minnesota
321	FL	Florida	407
323	CA	Los Angeles	213
325	TX	Central Texas	915
330	OH	NE Ohio: Akron, Canton, and Youngstown area	216, 234, 440
331	IL	NE Illinois	630, 708
334	AL	South Alabama
336	NC	Central North Carolina	910
337	LA	SW Louisiana	318
339	MA	Boston Massachusetts	508, 617, 781
340		US Virgin Islands	809
345		Cayman Islands
347	NY	New York	718
351	MA	North Massachusetts	508, 781, 978
352	FL	Florida	904
353	WI	Wisconsin
354	FL	Florida
356	NJ	New Jersey
358	PA	Pennsylvania	412, 724
360	WA	W. Washington State	206
361	TX	South Texas: Corpus Christi	512
369	CA	California
380	OH	Ohio	614
383	ME	Maine
384	OH	Ohio
385	UT	Utah	435, 801
386	FL	Daytona Beach, Florida	904
401	RI	Rhode Island
402	NE	East Nebraska
403	AB	Alberta	780, 867
404	GA	N Georgia: Atlanta	678, 770
405	OK	Oklahoma City metro	580, 918
406	MT	Montana
407	FL	Central Florida: Metro Orlando
408	CA	Cupertino, Los Gatos, Milpitas, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, and San Jose area.	415
409	TX	SE Texas: Galveston, Port Arthur	936, 979
410	MD	East Maryland	443
412	PA	West Pennsylvania	724, 358
413	MA	West Massachusetts
414	WI	SE Wisconsin: Milwaukee	920
415	CA	San Francisco, California	408, 650
416	ON	Canada: Metropolitan Toronto	647
417	MO	SW Missouri: Springfield
418	QC	NE Quebec
419	OH	NW Ohio: Toledo	567
423	TN	East Tennessee	615, 865
424	CA	Los Angeles, South California	310, 562
425	WA	North Washington	206, 253, 564
430	TX	NE Texas	903
432	TX	West Texas	915
434	VA	East Virginia	757, 804
435	UT	Utah outside Salt Lake City	801
438	QC	Canada: SW Quebec	514
440	OH	Ohio: Cleveland metro area, excluding Cleveland	216, 330
441		Bermuda	809
443	MD	East Maryland	410
450	QC	Southeastern Quebec outside metro Montreal
456		International Inbound
464	IL	Illinois
469	TX	Texas	214, 972
470	GA	Georgia	404, 678, 770
473		Grenada	809
475	CT	Connecticut
478	GA	Central Georgia	229, 912
479	AR	NW Arkansas	501
480	AZ	Arizona	520, 602, 623
484	PA	SE Pennsylvania: Allentown, Reading	610
500		Personal Services
501	AR	Central Arkansas	870
502	KY	W Kentucky: Louisville	270
503	OR	Oregon	541, 971
504	LA	East Louisiana: New Orleans	225, 985, 318
505	NM	New Mexico
506	NB	New Brunswick Canada
507	MN	South Minnesota: Rochester
508	MA	Cent. Massachusetts: Framingham	774, 978
509	WA	East Washington
510	CA	California: Oakland, East Bay	925
511		Travel information line.
512	TX	S Texas: Austin	361
513	OH	SW Ohio	937
514	QC	SW Quebec: Montreal	438
515	IA	Central Iowa	641
516	NY	Nassau county on Long Island and New York: Hempstead	631
517	MI	Central Michigan	989
518	NY	NE New York: Albany
519	ON	SW Ontario: Windsor	226
520	AZ	Arizona outside the Phoenix area	602, 928
530	CA	NE California: Chico, Redding	916
540	VA	Fredericksburg and Roanoke and nearby areas	276, 703
541	OR	Oregon	503, 541
546	MI	E Michigan	810
551	NJ	North New Jersey	201
557	MO	SE Missouri	314
559	CA	California: Fresno	209
561	FL	Florida (S. Central) (West Palm Beach, Boca Raton, Vero Beach)	772
562	CA	California: Long Beach	310
563	IA	East Iowa	319
564	WA	West Washington	360, 206, 253, 425
567	OH	NW Ohio	419
570	PA	E Pennsylvania: Wilkes-Barre, Scranton	717
571	VA	North Virginia	540, 703
573	MO	SE Missouri: excluding St Louis metro area
574	IN	North Indiana	219
580	OK	Western and Sothern Oklahoma	405, 918
585	NY	NW New York: Rochester	716
586	MI	Michigan	810
590		French West Indies
600		Canadian Services
601	MS	Mississippi	228, 662, 769
602	AZ	Phoenix Arizona	480, 520, 623
603	NH	New Hampshire
604	BC	Canada: British Columbia, Greater Vancouver	250, 778
605	SD	South Dakota
606	KY	East Kentucky: Ashland	859
607	NY	South Central New York: Ithaca, Binghamton
608	WI	SW Wisconsin: Madison
609	NJ	South New Jersey: Trenton	856
610	PA	SE Pennsylvania: Allentown, Reading	484, 835
612	MN	Central Minnesota, Minneapolis	651, 763, 952
613	ON	Canada: SE Ontario, Ottawa
614	OH	SE Ohio: Columbus	380
615	TN	East Tennessee: Nashville	423, 931
616	MI	West Michigan: Grand Rapids	269
617	MA	East Massachusetts: Boston	857
618	IL	South Illinois
619	CA	South California: San Diego	760, 858, 935
620	KS	South Kansas: Wichita	316
623	AZ	Arizona	480, 520, 602
626	CA	SE California: Pasadena	818
630	IL	NE Illinois, Oak Brook or Chicago suburbs	312, 331, 708
631	NY	New York: Suffolk County	516
636	MO	Missouri	314, 573
641	IA	Iowa	515
646	NY	Manhattan New York	212, 917
647	ON	South Central Ontario	416
650	CA	Peninsula south of San Francisco -- San Mateo county, parts of Santa Clara county	415
651	MN	Central Minnesota, St. Paul	612, 763, 952
657	CA	North California	714
660	MO	North Missouri	816
661	CA	California: N. Los Angeles, Mckittrick, Mojave, Newhall, Oildale, Palmdale, Taft, Tehachapi, Bakersfield, Earlimart, Lancaster	805
662	MS	Mississippi	601
664		Montserrat	809
669	CA	Central California coast	408
671		Guam
678	GA	North Georgia: Atlanta	404, 770
682	TX	Fort Worth Texas
689	FL	Central Florida	321, 407
700		Interconnect Services
701	ND	North Dakota
702	NV	South Nevada	775
703	VA	Northern Virginia: Arlington, McLean, Tysons Corner	540, 571
704	NC	West North Carolina: Charlotte
705	ON	Canada: NW Ontario, Sault Ste. Marie
706	GA	North Georgia: Columbus, Augusta
707	CA	NW California: Santa Rosa
708	IL	Central NE Illinois: Oak Brook	464, 630
709	NF	Canada Newfoundland
710		US Government
712	IA	West Iowa
713	TX	Mid SE Texas: Houston	281, 832
714	CA	North and Central Orange County	657, 949
715	WI	North Wisconsin: Eau Claire
716	NY	NW New York: Buffalo, Rochester	585
717	PA	East Pennsylvania: Wilkes-Barre, Scranton	570
718	NY	New York City Metro Area, New York	212, 347
719	CO	SE Colorado: Pueblo, Colorado Springs
720	CO	Central Colorado: Denver	303
724	PA	SW Pennsylvania	412
727	FL	Tampa Metro: Saint Petersburg, Clearwater	813
731	TN	West Tennessee	901
732	NJ	Central New Jersey: New Brunswick, Bound Brook	848, 908
734	MI	SE Michigan: west and south of Detroit -- Ann Arbor, Monroe	313
737	TX	South Texas	512, 614
740	OH	SE Ohio	614
757	VA	E Virginia, Williamsburg area, including Portsmouth	804
758		St. Lucia	809
760	CA	California: Southeastern San Diego north to Sierra Nevada	619
763	MN	Minnesota	612, 952
765	IN	Indiana: outside Indianapolis	317
770	GA	Atlanta and suburbs	285, 404, 678
772	FL	South central Florida	561
773	IL	Non-downtown Chicago, Illinois	312, 872
774	MA	Massachusetts	508, 978
775	NV	Nevada	702
778	BC	British Colombia Canada	250, 604
780	AB	Alberta Canada	403
781	MA	E Massachusetts: Boston suburbs	339, 508, 617
784		St. Vincent/Grenadines	809
785	KS	N Kansas: Topeka	913
786	FL	SE Florida	305
787	PR	Puerto Rico	939
800		Domestic Toll-Free	888, 877, 866, 855, 844, 833, 822
801	UT	Salt Lake City Metro	385, 435
802	VT	Vermont
803	SC	South Carolina	843, 864
804	VA	East Virginia: Richmond	434, 757
805	CA	South Central Coastal California: Bakersfield	661
806	TX	Panhandle Texas: Amarillo
807	ON	Canada: West Ontario, Thunder Bay
808	HI	HAWAII
809		Bermuda, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Caribbean	441,340
810	MI	East Michigan: Flint, Pontiac	248, 586
812	IN	South Indiana: Evansville
813	FL	SW Florida: Tampa Metro	727, 941
814	PA	Central Pennsylvania: Erie
815	IL	NE Illinois: Rockford, Kankakee
816	MO	N Missouri: Kansas City	660, 975
817	TX	N Cent. Texas: Fort Worth area	254, 940
818	CA	S California: Los Angeles	213, 310, 562, 626
819	QC	Canada: NW Quebec: Trios Rivers	867
822		US/Canada Toll-Free
828	NC	West North Carolina: Asheville	704
830	TX	Texas: North and West of San Antonio	210
831	CA	California: central coast area from Santa Cruz through Monterey County
832	TX	Texas	281, 713, 936
833		US/Canada Toll-Free
835	PA	SE Pennsylvania	484, 610
843	SC	South Carolina	803
844		US/Canada Toll-Free
845	NY	New York	914
847	IL	Northern NE Illinois: Oak Brook	224, 312
848	NJ	Central New Jersey	732
850	FL	Florida panhandle, from east of Tallahassee to Pensacola	904
855		US/Canada Toll-Free
856		SW New Jersey	609
857		Massachusetts	617
858	CA	S California: San Diego	619, 760, 935
859	KY	Kentucky	606
860	CT	Connecticut	203
861	FL	SW Florida	863, 941
862	NJ	North New Jersey	973
863	FL	Florida
864	SC	South Carolina	803
865	TN	Tennessee	423, 615
866		US/Canada Toll-Free
867	YT	Canada: Yukon and Northwest Territories	403,819
868		Trinidad & Tobago
869		St. Kitts/Nevis
870	AR	South Arkansas	501
872	IL	Illinois: Chicago	312, 773
876		Jamaica
877		Domestic Toll-Free
878	PA	Pittsburgh	412
888		Domestic Toll-Free
898		VoIP service
900		Personal paid service line
901	TN	W Tennessee: Memphis	615, 731, 931
902	NS	Canada: Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island
903	TX	NE Texas: Tyler	430
904	FL	North Florida: Jacksonville	352, 386, 850
905	ON	South central Ontario	416, 647
906	MI	Upper Peninsula Michigan: Sault Ste. Marie, Escanaba, Marquette
907	AK	Alaska
908	NJ	Cent. New Jersey: Elizabeth, Basking Ridge, Somerville, Bridgewater	732
909	CA	Inland empire: San Bernardino	951
910	NC	South Central North Carolina: Fayetteville, Wilmington	336
911		Emergency Help
912	GA	South Georgia: Savannah	229, 478
913	KS	North East Kansas/Kansas City Metro/Leavenworth	785
914	NY	South New York: White Plains	845
915	TX	West Texas: Sweetwater	325, 432
916	CA	NE California: Sacramento	530
917	NY	New York City, New York	646
918	OK	East Oklahoma: Tulsa	405, 580
919	NC	East North Carolina: Raleigh	252, 984
920	WI	NE Wisconsin	414
925	CA	California	510
928	AZ	Arizona	520
931	TN	Central Tennessee	615
935	CA	South California: San Diego	760, 858, 619
936	TX	SE Texas	409, 254, 817, 940, 979
937	OH	SW Ohio: Dayton	513
939	PR	Puerto Rico	787
940	TX	North Central Texas: Denton, Wichita Falls	254, 817, 936
941	FL	SW Florida: Tampa Area	813, 863
947	MI	Michigan	248
949	CA	South Coastal Orange County California	714
951	CA	West riverside California	909
952	MN	Minnesota	612, 763
954	FL	Broward County area, including Ft. Lauderdale	305, 754
956	TX	Valley of Texas area (Harlingen)	210
959	CT	Connecticut	860
970	CO	North and West Colorado	303
971	OR	Oregon	503
972	TX	Texas: Dallas Metro: Dallas and parts of Denton and Collin counties	214, 469
973	NJ	North New Jersey: Newark Paterson Morristown	201, 862
975	MO	North Missouri	816
976		Personal paid service line
978	MA	Central Massachusetts	508, 978
979	TX	SE Texas	409, 936
980	NC	Carolina	704
984	NC	Carolina	919
985	LA	E Louisiana	504
989	MI	Michigan	517

According to FutureWatch 2006, several key indicators including the total number of meetings planned and expenditures per meeting/event are expected to increase in 2006. Client-side planners--defined as corporate, association, government and nonprofit planners--and intermediaries--defined as independent meeting planners, third-party planners, multi-management companies, DMCs and association management companies--expect the number of meetings planned by their organizations to grow by 7 percent and 21 percent over 2005, respectively. Suppliers--defined as convention/conference centers, convention and visitors bureaus, hotels, resorts, meeting facilities, production companies and on-site meeting support--project a 10 percent increase in the number of meetings they will support. Planners, intermediaries and suppliers predict a 7 percent, 14 percent and 9 percent jump, respectively, in expenditures per meeting in 2006 compared with 2005.

Additionally, client-side planners expect to receive a larger share of their organizations' budgets in 2006 than in 2005, with 42 percent predicting their budgets will grow as a percentage of their organizations' total budgets. Only 8 percent expect to have a smaller proportion.

"All FutureWatch 2006 respondents expect to have more frequent, longer and larger meetings this year, suggesting that organizations are increasingly recognizing the value of meetings as strategic business tools that can achieve business goals," said Colin Rorrie Jr., PhD, CAE, president and CEO of MPI. "However, from what we've seen, cautious optimism seems to be the theme in 2006. While key indicators point to growth and increased meetings spend, concerns about the economy and rising oil and travel costs loom."

Venue Demand Outpaces Supply/Increasing Lead Times
Expected changes in lead times, hotel rates, and attrition and price concessions suggest that demand for meeting space and accommodations may outpace supply in 2006. Meeting space lead time is projected to increase by 38 percent in 2006, from 29 weeks to 40 weeks on average. Meanwhile, lead time for hotel/support services is forecasted to jump 37 percent from 23 weeks to 31 weeks. Additionally, 76 percent of client-side planners and 81 percent of suppliers expect hotel rates to increase in 2006. Finally, 31 percent of client-side planners, 28 percent of intermediaries and 24 percent of suppliers predict that concessions and flexibility will decrease in 2006.

"In the past few years, meeting professionals for the most part have experienced dramatically shorter lead times," Rorrie said. "In some cases, a meeting that took six months to plan now must be executed in three weeks. The fact that FutureWatch 2006 respondents are expecting longer lead times and higher hotel rates in 2006 suggests that the unusually active hurricane season of 2005 combined with the increase in the number of meetings being planned may be taking its toll on available inventory, especially in key tourist and convention destinations. Organizations may not have a choice but to plan meetings further in advance."

International Travel Slows
While meetings are on the rise, international meetings travel is slowing, as U.S. and European planners project little change in the use of international meeting destinations, and Canadian planners expect a significant decline. Canadian planners anticipate only 14 percent of all 2006 meetings will be held internationally, compared with 23 percent in 2005. While the United States remains the top international destination for Canadian planners, only 7 percent expect to hold their meetings there, down from 16 percent in 2005. European planners expect international meetings to increase slightly from 26 percent in 2005 to 29 percent in 2006, with the U.S. and Asia listed as top destinations at 12 percent and 8 percent respectively. U.S. planners predicted little change in international meeting locations, with Canada and Europe tied as lead locales at 5 percent each.

Planners Lead Procurement Process
Despite continued implementation of standardized meetings management processes and concerns about commoditization, meeting planners are still by far the most active participants in the buying process for meetings. Eighty percent of respondents said meeting planners were always or often involved in the identification and contacting of vendors, 84 percent said they were "always" or "often" involved in the evaluation and recommendation of vendors, and 78 percent said they were "always" or "often" involved in the final purchasing decision. Meanwhile, only 13 percent of respondents cited that procurement was involved in any of the three phases.

"With the move towards standardized management systems, there was a perceived risk that meeting planning would become solely a cost-based purchasing decision driven solely by procurement," said Julie Hylton, director of industry development for American Express Establishment Services. "In fact, today's data suggests that meeting planners lead the charge in identifying, evaluating and making the final decision regarding vendors. And, because the majority of respondents also indicated that procurement departments are involved at least occasionally in the process, it's important that planners establish a dialogue and a productive relationship with their procurement colleagues."

Meetings as a Strategic Function
Meetings are increasingly becoming a tool for furthering organizational objectives, with 71 percent of client-side planners indicating that meetings are recognized to a great or very great extent as a strategic function important to the growth and success of their organization. Forty-nine percent of planners said the perceived value of meetings has increased over the past year, while 62 percent predict it will grow even further in the next two to three years.

Additionally, 66 percent of meeting managers and 80 percent of directors are either being consulted when their organization is considering a meeting or are involved in driving strategy and establishing how meetings will be used to support organizational goals.

"Meeting professionals are increasingly operating beyond the logistical or tactical level and have the opportunity to strategically impact the organizations for which they work," Rorrie said. "As this strategic role emerges, it's critical that meeting professionals speak in the language of business, increase their influence and articulate the bottom-line value of meetings to all stakeholders and executive decision-makers."

Additional Key Findings
While many organizations fully outsource their meetings function to intermediaries, survey indicators show a greater percentage of intermediaries are actually working in concert with an existing meetings function. According to intermediary respondents, 42 percent of the time their main contact is within the meeting planning department, as opposed to the internal department that "owns" the meeting.

The top five internal organizational trends affecting the meetings industry are workload, organizational budget changes, shifting organizational goals, organizational growth and shorter lead times.

The top five external or environmental trends affecting the meetings industry include the state of the economy, travel costs, the rising cost of oil, changes in technology and increasing globalization.

When asked about return on investment (ROI) for meetings, respondents indicated that discussions within their organizations focused more on cost savings and efficiencies than achieving the strategic goals of a meeting. Just over one-third of respondents focus on the achievement of strategic goals when discussing ROI.

Return on Objectives (ROO) has been discussed within 61 percent of planners, 71 percent of intermediaries and 55 percent of supplier respondents. ROI and ROO discussions signal that organizations are seeking a measurement model that provides a complete picture of how meetings drive business and reflect total benefit and total expense.

For the full report, visit www.mpiweb.org.

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