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ICCA The Association Meeting Market 2008 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 their calendar information to help identify new events.
This led Martin Sirk, CEO of ICCA, to point out: ‘ICCA's researchers have never before identified so many international meetings taking place in a single year. 800 more regularly-occurring and rotating events than in the previous year. Record numbers of delegates. Record estimated expenditure. ICCA has shouted loud and long about the importance of this segment of the international meetings industry, but the results for 2008 have been truly remarkable, and not just because of the second half of the year that was already showing signs of the global turbulence that is still rocking us.’
Martin Sirk, CEO of ICCA:
ICCA's researchers have never before identified so many international association meetings taking place in a single year. 800 more regularly-occurring and rotating events than in the previous year Number of meetings per country Ranking 1 2 3 4
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 are Spain and France: they 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.
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Country U.S.A. Germany Spain France United Kingdom
Number of meetings per city # Meetings
Ranking
City
# Meetings
507
1
Paris
139
Vienna
139
347
3
Barcelona
136
334
4
Singapore
118
322
5
Berlin
100
Budapest
95
Amsterdam
89 87
402
6
Italy
296
6
7
Brazil
254
7
8
Japan
247
8
Stockholm
9
Canada
231
9
Seoul
84
10
Netherlands
227
10
Lisbon
83 82
11
China-P.R.
223
11
Copenhagen
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
Buenos Aires
72
17
Sweden
163
Istanbul
72
18
Finland
142
18
Bangkok
71
19
Greece
123
19
London
68
20
Belgium
122
Tokyo
68
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