MPI released their annual Future Watch report this week and it had good news for event planners.  Overall survey respondents expect to see about a 3% increase in the number of events being planned for 2010.  I recently polled event planners on LinkedIn to see what their forecast is for event marketing in 2010.  Though an admittedly small sample size, the results were similarly positive  with 83% forecasting that event marketing will play a greater part in their overall marketing plans for 2010.