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ICCA publishes country and city rankings 2008


 

The ICCA rankings cover meetings organised by international associations which take place on a regular basis and which rotate between a minimum of three countries. The data represents a "snapshot" of qualifying events in the ICCA Association Database as sampled on 12 May 2009. ICCA's Association Database is designed as a sales and marketing resource for its members to target future international association meetings, which is why it does not include one-off events or those which do not move between locations.

This year the ICCA Data researchers have identified 7,475 events which took place in 2008, a rise of approximately 800 over 2007. Partly this reflects the strength of the market, partly it is thanks to a record number of ICCA members sending us their calendar information to help identify new events.

Table 1: ICCA country and city ranking measured by number of meetings organised in 2008

Rank

Country

# Meetings

Rank

City

# Meetings

1

U.S.A.

507

1

Paris

139

2

Germany

402

2

Vienna

139

3

Spain

347

3

Barcelona

136

4

France

334

4

Singapore

118

5

United Kingdom

322

5

Berlin

100

6

Italy

296

6

Budapest

95

7

Brazil

254

7

Amsterdam

89

8

Japan

247

8

Stockholm

87

9

Canada

231

9

Seoul

84

10

Netherlands

227

10

Lisbon

83

11

China-P.R.

223

11

Copenhagen

82

12

Austria

196

12

Sao Paulo

75

13

Switzerland

194

13

Prague

74

14

Australia

182

14

Beijing

73

15

Portugal

177

15

Athens

72

16

Republic of Korea

169

16

Buenos Aires

72

17

Sweden

163

17

Istanbul

72

18

Finland

142

18

Bangkok

71

19

Greece

123

19

London

68

20

Belgium

122

20

Tokyo

68

As has been the case since 2004, U.S.A. and Germany are the number one and two countries respectively measured by the number of international meetings organised in 2008. The numbers 4 and 5: Spain and France had a considerable increase by amount of meetings compared to 2007: 40 and 79 respectively.

For the first time in three years, Vienna shares the top with Paris as the most popular city. Barcelona on third place had an increase of 30 meetings over 2007. Remarkable newcomers in the top 20 are Athens, Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo and Tokyo. Stockholm and Seoul both climb in the rankings to 8th and 9th position respectively.

ICCA is now working on the details behind these headline results. The full ICCA statistics report for 2008 will be released early June. The 10 Year statistics report covering 1999-2008 will be published late July.

The ICCA statistics reports will be freely available online to ICCA members. The International Association Meetings Market 2008 will also be sent to over 3,000 association meeting planners all over the world. ICCA encourages associations to use the statistics as a practical way to identify potential new destinations for their events.

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