The official figures say annual international attendance dropped from 11,500 in 1999 to 10,000 in 2000. Market officials hope this is just a one-year oddity. Perhaps it is. But if the drop is indeed a trend, it will be worrisome for the world's most important furniture market. Maybe the new Market Authority will be able to develop more precise figures, and even release attendance figures each market.
Market is so big it almost defies our ability to measure it.
But we must do our best. And we can't get better if we don't know where we are going.