State of the congress and exhibition industry in the service economy of the CIS member states

The article discusses the main approaches to the structure of creative industries, showing that the basic characteristics of creative industries are innovativeness of activity and the entrepreneurial element in creative activity. The article shows that in terms of industry systematization of the creative industries, there is no unity of views among either researchers or practitioners. The authors justify their position on including modern practices of organizing and holding congress and exhibition events among the creative industries. The authors formulated the purpose of the article as: systematization of the peculiarities of the functioning of the congress and exhibition industry in the space of the CIS member states. The analysis was carried out using open sources on the Internet. The work used statistical information posted on the portal of the Interparliamentary Assembly (IPA) of the CIS member states in the “exhibition activities” section. To assess the infrastructure, the activities of national organizers of business events were analyzed; exhibition, convention and convention centers, congress hotels and other spaces where public events are held; In total, 258 infrastructure facilities from 9 CIS countries were analyzed. Based on factual and statistical analysis, the characteristics of the exhibition infrastructure in the CIS member states are given; provides a quantitative description of organizers of business events in the CIS countries; a thematic analysis of exhibitions and other public events organized at exhibition sites in the CIS countries for the period from 2015 to 2021 was carried out; the feasibility of creating a basic organization of the CIS member states in the field of training specialists for the creative industries, the hospitality sector and congress and exhibition activities is substantiated.