Vienna and Seoul pull in the high numbers, according to new ICCA listing

ICCA’s release of its country and city rankings by estimated total number of participants to international association meetings in 2016, as part of its public abstract of its annual statistics report, sees Vienna (2^nd for number of meetings) top the list and Seoul in second spot (10^th on the city meetings list).

Vienna attracted an estimated total of almost 120,000 participants visiting 186 association meetings in 2016.

Seoul, only tenth in the ranking by number of meetings with 137 meetings in 2016), brought in 105,000 participants.

Barcelona, like in in the ranking by number of meetings in 2016, ranks third with close to 100,000 participants, closely followed by Copenhagen, which is 14th in the ranking by number of meetings.

This means Seoul and Copenhagen host relatively large meetings.

As in the number of meetings ranking, London is fifth. Paris, number one in the ranking by number of meetings, ranks seventh in this new participants’ list.

Table 1: Top 10 city ranking by estimated total number of participants to all meetings organised in 2016, including number of meetings organised in 2016

The top three countries by estimated total number of participants is the same as the ranking by number of meetings: USA is first with over 400,000 participants in 2016, Germany is second with over 280,000 participants and the UK is third with almost 230,000 participants.

Italy is two places higher in this ranking and takes fourth place and, as in the ranking by number of meetings, Spain is fifth.

Table 2: Top 10 country ranking by estimated total number of participants to all meetings organised in 2016, including number of meetings organised in 2016

ICCA’s annual country and city rankings by number of meetings were published on 8 May 2017. ICCA captured 12,212 rotating international association meetings taking place in 2016, which is a record for ICCA’s annual snapshot of immediate past year’s meetings data, and 136 additional meetings compared to 2015. To be included, association meetings must be held on a regular basis, have at least 50 delegates, and rotate between at least three countries.