ICCA Ranking
Meetings
market movers
might previously have appeared
as multiple separate meetings. As
a result, the normal levels of growth
appear to be slightly reduced, even
though ICCA believes the underlying
rate of growth is still robust.
ICCA CEO Martin Sirk said: “What
was striking in this year’s exercise is
the very large number of meetings
we identified over the last 12 months
for the year 2013 – more than 600
meetings were identified worldwide,
659
543
533
337
332
307
291
287
Germany
Spain
United Kingdom
France
Italy
Japan
China - P.R.
Netherlands
Brazil
Austria
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11 12 13 14
190
187
Belgium
222
Korea
Turkey
226
Switzerland
191
229
Portugal
15 16 17
Argentina
238
260
Australia
Sweden
265
Canada
The USA continues to lead the way statistically in terms of number of
qualifying meetings held in each country.
Germany and Spain rank two and three, while UK and France swap
places into fourth and fifth place respectively.
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and we’re pretty certain we’ll have
equal success in finding more
qualifying 2014 meetings over the
next 12 months. Most commentators
are naturally focusing on the new
2014 rankings, but the nature of
this business means that we always
continue to identify many qualifying
meetings long after each annual
announcement.
“We can’t stress this point strongly
enough: ICCA’s rankings are a
Country rankings: No change in the top five
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s this year's ICCA city
and country rankings
were released in June,
The International Congress and
Convention Association (ICCA)
explained it had undertaken a
major review of historical data over
the last 12 months, removing all
meetings from its statistics which no
longer met the strict three-country
rotation criterion and clamping
down on single meetings which
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Number of meetings in the top 20 countries in 2015
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