Events and Webinars

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City Tourism Rankings – New Records and New Challenges

with Emma Laverty, Helen McDermott and Kieran Ferran | Online | May 20, 2025

As we are looking ahead to continued travel growth, the composition of travel demand is evolving. City travel has surpassed pre-pandemic levels and is converging on longer-run trend growth rates. However, there are some significant shifts in activity and preferences within the total while uncertain tariff policies are also weighing on city tourism. In this webinar we assess our latest global city travel forecast update, how our city tourism rankings have changed, the regional opportunities for tourism growth and the impact of the latest US tariff policies.

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ETC – European tourism trends and prospects: Q1 2025

with Chloe Parkins, Miro Blazevic and Menno Van IJssel | Online | April 23, 2025

As European travel enters a new phase of growth in 2025, Tourism Economics will highlight and examine the latest trends that have emerged so far this year and explore what greater global uncertainty means for travel activity going forward. Additionally, Lighthouse will cover the latest data and trends regarding short-term rentals in Europe, offering a recap of 2024 and providing insightful predictions for the year ahead.

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Updating 2025 plans after tariffs: refreshed global outlook for corporates

with Martina Bozadzhieva, Alex Mackle and Marcos Casarin | Online | April 16, 2025

In this webinar, we’ll share our fully updated outlooks across major regions, covering growth and demand dynamics, costs and inflation, as well as other economic factors B2B and B2C companies may need to integrate into plan reviews.

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The future of the middle class in emerging markets

with Marcos Casarin | Online | March 3, 2025

We forecast the emerging market middle class will double in size in the next ten years. In this webinar, we will discuss what went wrong with the emerging market middle class in the mid-2010s and what are the best growth opportunities in the next five to ten years.

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For Asia, the Trump regime is not just about tariffs

with Arup Raha | Online | February 20, 2025

We are about a month into the Trump presidency and Asia appears to be coping quite well despite the continued looming fear of tariffs. However, the financial markets have been reacting since September of last year, with higher US bond yields and a stronger US dollar. These developments are likely to affect Asian growth prospects and also the ability of policy to respond. We draw out the implications. Plus: Could AI be China’s magic potion out of stagnation?

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Latin America: Reviewing our 2025 outlook and what Trump means for the region

with Debora Reyna and Tim Hunter | Online | January 31, 2025

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Canada Key Themes 2025 – Policy shocks buffet slow-growing economy

with Michael Davenport and Tony Stillo | Online | January 28, 2025

In this webinar, we'll examine four key questions that will shape the Canadian economy in 2025. How much will easier financial conditions and a resilient global backdrop support growth? Will prevailing imbalances continue to weigh on the Canadian economy? To what extent will a shrinking population from Canada's new immigration policy slow growth? How might uncertain policy shocks in Canada and the US reshape economic prospects?

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Global Cities: Searching for growth opportunities in an uncertain future

with George Bowen and Mark Britton | Online | January 28, 2025

As the world emerges from recent economic turbulence, the next few years will see a pick-up in growth for cities around the world. However, with opportunity comes uncertainty, and the outlook is perhaps the most uncertain it has been for years. What does the future hold for the world’s most important cities? In this webinar, we will discuss the key trends shaping the economic outlook for cities, including technological advancements, shifting global trade dynamics, and the impact of environmental and geopolitical challenges.

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Global Valves & Actuators Outlook 2024

with Jeremy Leonard and Kiran Ahmed | Online | December 3, 2024

Against a backdrop of a moderate global economic growth, we discuss the outlook for world valves & actuators markets. In this webinar you will learn about: • The global macroeconomic and industrial outlook that underpins our valves and actuator market forecasts • The outlook for the world valves and actuator market • Key risks to our forecasts

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US economic key themes for 2025

with Ryan Sweet | Online | November 25, 2024

We remain more optimistic than the consensus on the US and expect its period of growth exceptionalism to continue. Policy uncertainty will remain high but this isn’t the first, nor the last, the economy has dealt with elevated uncertainty. Businesses can quickly adapt and the prospects for expansionary fiscal policy on top of an already solid backdrop for US consumer spending and investment, the US economy will likely further distance itself from the rest of the pack.   

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Canada Economic Outlook Webinar: Weak growth to continue in the face of stiff new headwinds

with Tony Stillo and Michael Davenport | Online | November 21, 2024

The Canadian economy continues to underwhelm. Growth remains weak and GDP per capita has now declined for two years. Our upcoming webinar will discuss prospects for the economy amid the key challenges it faces, tackling questions like: How will rapidly declining interest rates and new mortgage lending guidelines affect households? Will another Trump presidency mean higher tariffs for Canada’s exporters? How will the federal government’s new immigration plan affect the economy?

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Global economic key themes for 2025

with Ben May | Online | November 20, 2024

There is a strong consensus amongst forecasters that global growth is likely to hold broadly stable next year. While we see little reason to disagree, in our latest webinar we highlight the key themes which we think will have a crucial bearing on next year's likely relative winners and losers.

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A tale of two regions: cruise travel trends in the Caribbean and the Mediterranean

with Christian Savelli and Helen McDermott | Online | October 23, 2024

The cruise ship orderbook is one of the main drivers of change in deployment trends for the cruise industry. This session will discuss how the orderbook mix is impacting these two regions as they are experiencing different growth trajectories.

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What 2025 and a second Trump presidency holds for Latin America

with Tim Hunter and Mauricio Monge | Online | September 27, 2024

Growth dynamics next year will differ across Latin America's six largest economies – Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru – but most economies will experience an acceleration in growth. However, this contrasts with a consumer outlook which is losing steam, and instead we see investment and trade as driving higher growth in 2025. This will come with support from US and domestic monetary policy easing, as inflation will broadly be at target. We will explore the stories affecting individual economies, such as the risk of judicial reform in Mexico to investment and the impact of President Milei’s radical reforms in Argentina. November will bring the US presidential election, and we will examine the impacts on Latin America of a new trade war under a second Trump presidency.

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Global Strategy Webinar – After a volatile summer, where next for markets?

with Javier Corominas and Ryan Field | Online | September 26, 2024

We think the bout of market volatility this month was largely reflective of technical selling following noisy data and not owing to a change in macro fundamentals. Our base case remains a soft landing in the US as growth remains underpinned by a still-healthy consumer.

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Industrial recovery struggles to gain momentum

with Abby Samp and Dominic Dobryniewski | Online | September 23, 2024

Industrial production growth has improved relative to last year, but still trails the broader economy. The cycle has bottomed out and remains on course for a gradual recovery, but the lagged impact of past monetary policy tightening and continued central bank caution around inflation, particularly in Europe, means momentum will take time to build. Join us for a full summary of the outlook across key sectors.

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Global outlook: Ignore the doomsayers, but don’t expect 2025 fireworks either

with Ben May | Online | September 9, 2024

In this webinar we look at global growth prospects for 2025. We believe that recent jitters about US growth prospects are overdone, while US GDP growth will slow a bit, this will not lead to substantive deceleration in global growth. In fact, our baseline forecast is for the world economy to expand by 2.7% for the third year running next year.

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US Outlook: Tech, services will continue to drive US output

with Victoria Tribone and Ahmed Abdelmeguid | Online | August 13, 2024

In this webinar the US industrial outlook, and emerging trends in the tech sector will be presented. While industrial growth will further slow, service sectors production will drive growth in 2025. These sectors' spending on technology remains elevated, boosted by increased revenue and demand for their products.

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Global Construction Futures – global construction up US$4.2 trillion by 2037

with Graham Robinson, Jeremy Leonard, James (Aon), Tariq (Aon) and Bob (Aon) | Online | March 16, 2023

As China pivots from its Zero Covid policy and with growth in the US and most European markets expected to be negative or flatlining this year – what are the medium- and longer-term futures for the global construction industry? We expect growth engines to drive global construction up US$4.1 trillion by 2037. Global Construction Futures is the next in a series of global forecasts for construction to be published by Oxford Economics with the support of the global Construction and Infrastructure leadership team at Aon. Global Construction Futures will be launched on 16 March 2023 to a global construction industry audience. Oxford Economics will present the key highlights from the forecasts for construction and a panel of industry leaders will give their perspectives on the global construction market.

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China’s reopening: Implications for China and the region.

with Arup Raha and Louise Loo | Online | February 7, 2023

The Chinese authorities have eased Covid-related movement restrictions. While that is undoubtedly a positive development it is not without risk. We discuss China’s likely growth trajectory in a post-Covid world and its regional impact.