at least historically very few people travel for EAG. I was surprised by this when I did the surveys and analytics for this when I ran EAG in 2015 and 2016.
Here are some numbers from Swapcard for EAG London 2024:
Country
COUNTA of Country
United Kingdom
608
United States
196
Germany
85
Netherlands
48
France
44
Switzerland
34
India
23
Sweden
21
Canada
21
Australia
21
Norway
17
Brazil
15
Belgium
13
Philippines
12
Austria
12
Spain
11
Poland
11
Czech Republic
11
Singapore
10
Nigeria
10
Italy
10
Denmark
10
South Africa
9
Kenya
9
Finland
8
Israel
7
Hungary
7
Mexico
5
Ireland
5
Hong Kong
5
Malaysia
4
Estonia
4
China
4
Turkey
3
Taiwan
3
Romania
3
Portugal
3
New Zealand
3
Chile
3
United Arab Emirates
2
Peru
2
Luxembourg
2
Latvia
2
Indonesia
2
Ghana
2
Colombia
2
Zambia
1
Uganda
1
Thailand
1
Slovakia
1
Russia
1
Morocco
1
Japan
1
Iceland
1
Georgia
1
Egypt
1
Ecuador
1
Cambodia
1
Bulgaria
1
Botswana
1
Argentina
1
55% of attendees were not from the UK, 14% of attendees were from the US, at least based on Swapcard data
London is a particularly easy city to travel to from the rest of Europe, but that’s still like 50% more than the baseline we had in 2015/​2016/​2017. The most relevant numbers here would be the people who would travel all the way from the U.S. and who would overlap with people who would want to attend LessOnline. My best guess is there are around 30-40 attendees for which there was a real conflict between the two events, though it wouldn’t surprise me if that’s off by a factor of 2-3 in either direction.
Here are some numbers from Swapcard for EAG London 2024:
55% of attendees were not from the UK, 14% of attendees were from the US, at least based on Swapcard data
London is a particularly easy city to travel to from the rest of Europe, but that’s still like 50% more than the baseline we had in 2015/​2016/​2017. The most relevant numbers here would be the people who would travel all the way from the U.S. and who would overlap with people who would want to attend LessOnline. My best guess is there are around 30-40 attendees for which there was a real conflict between the two events, though it wouldn’t surprise me if that’s off by a factor of 2-3 in either direction.
Raising my hand for an even more niche category: people who likely would have attended LessOnline had their partner not been attending EAG.
Detail, but afaict there were at least five Irish participants.
Thanks! I was using old data, I updated the table.
I’m surprised there were only five