Thanks for clarifying that. While it’s important to keep this distinction in mind, it’s also worth pointing out that there is an interesting grey zone. Typical examples from that grey zone are staff retreats, strategy workshops or certain kick-off meetings, i.e. meetings that are often smaller but nevertheless held off-site at a hotel or conference centre.
There is another distinction implicit in the one Ib makes (apart from size and location): the involvement of some kind of meeting professional or process facilitator. People earning their money by helping others organize their meetings obviously have a special interest in this latter kind of meetings. So, to put it concisely, on the one side you have meetings without external professional support and on the other you have those involving external professional support.
Traditionally, this distinction divides the world of meetings about the same way as the one about size and location. But this seems to be gradually changing as organizations are increasingly willing to pay professionals for helping them improve their smaller and routine office meetings or even their organisational meeting culture as a whole.
This support for ordinary meetings ranges from the good old process facilitator (and training of such facilitators) to digital applications (such as those provided by @Elise_Keith, @kelvin.mcgrath, or @CCGPierre) to more general support for thinking about organizational meetings and meeting cultures (as provided, for example, by @mike, @micke.darmell, @antoni, @asa, @maarten.vanneste and others). In other words, while the “meeting industry” was traditionally limited to special and larger meetings, it is gradually expanding to professionalise ordinary and smaller meetings.
BTW: I’d like to encourage all of you who are offering products or services related to mertings to briefly describe those in our Marketplace category. I think this would help promote everyone’s understanding of the industry and the developing meeting profession(s).
See also this topic: