ICCA Ranking
snapshot of a moment in time of a
database designed for sales and
marketing purposes, for a very specific
segment of the market, a segment
moreover where decisions are made
3-6 years in advance.
“Any destination wishing
to accurately present its true
performance in the international
meetings field needs to complement
the ICCA statistics and rankings with
its own robust measurement of all
meetings business won."
With ICCA's new Statistics Tool, the
association's members can also now
extract data on meetings that are
important for their destination, for
example if they’re primarily interested
in meetings of more than 1,000
delegates, or which are related to a
particularly segment of the market,
such as medical sciences.
Sirk said he expects to see many
ICCA members communicating
their rankings in these specific type of
meetings, and not just relying on their
position in the overall rankings.
To be included in ICCA’s
international association meetings
tables, meetings must be held on
a regular basis, have at least 50
delegates, and rotate between at
least three countries. The full reports
are only available to ICCA members.
Martin Sirk
As part of ICCA’s 50-year anniversary
a special 50-year edition of its
international association meetings
Statistics Report 'A modern history of
international association meetings
1963-2012' has been published
in September 2013. This report
shows that the number of regularlyoccurring, internationally rotating
association meetings is increasing by
100% every 10 years, and has been
consistently doing so for the last half
century, with no signs of a slowdown.
The report is publicly available on
www.icca50.com.
Here CMW looks at a selection of
the movers in the latest rankings.
Paris 214
City rankings: Paris retains top spot
202
193
182
166
142
133
130
118
112
109
105
104
99
98
97
97
95
92
Madrid
Berlin
Barcelona
London
Singapore
Amsterdam
Istanbul
Prague
Brussels
Lisbon
Copenhagen
Beijing
Seoul
Hong Kong
Budapest
Rome
Stockholm
Taipei
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200
Vienna
Results of ICCA’s recently released 2014 annual statistics on the number of
rotating international association meetings hosted by cities showed Paris
retaining the lead and Vienna swapping places with Madrid and moving up
from three to two, and Berlin and Barcelona swapping places at four and five
respectively. London moved up a place to sixth spot.
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10
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Number of meetings in the top 20 cities in 2015
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CONFERENCE & MEETINGS WORLD
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