The International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA) announced a record number of association meetings were held in 2016 and revealed its top cities for international association meetings.
According to ICCA, the association’s research captured 12,212 rotating international association meetings taking place in 2016, which is an all-time record for ICCA’s annual snapshot of immediate past year’s meetings data, and an increase of 136 additional meetings compared to numbers tallied in 2015.
Additionally, the data shows that the number of association meetings held in 2016 (12,212) is more than twice that of the numbers from a decade earlier in 2006, when just under 6,000 meetings were held.
The ICCA also released its annual list of top international association meeting cities.
Paris was the top city for international association meetings with 196 meetings held in 2016. The top 20 cities are shown below, with the total number of meetings held in parentheses next to each city.
ICCA’s Top 20 Cities for International Association Meetings
- Paris (196).
- Vienna (186).
- Barcelona (181).
- Berlin (176).
- London (153).
- Singapore (151).
- Amsterdam (144).
- Madrid (144).
- Lisbon (138).
- Seoul (137).
- Prague (126).
- Bangkok (121).
- Dublin (118).
- Copenhagen (115).
- Beijing (113).
- Budapest (108).
- Buenos Aires (103).
- Stockholm (101).
- Hong Kong (99).
- Rome (96).
ICCA also revealed its list of Top 20 Countries for International Association Meetings in 2016, with the U.S. taking the top spot with 934 meetings held, followed by Germany (689), the U.K. (582), France (545) and Spain (533). The full list and other information and statistics are available on the ICCA website.
