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The international association meetings 

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The International Association Meetings Market 1998-2007 

The International Association 

Meetings Market 1998-2007 

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Preface 

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Beyond direct economic impact: analysing 

the true value of international association 

meetings. 

ICCA’s annual 10 year report on the 

international association meetings market 

is an eagerly awaited document, generating 

hundreds of media stories around the world, 

and helping ICCA members to demonstrate to 

their local politicians and other power-brokers 

the value of their marketing and sales efforts 

and of the the frequently massive investments 

that have been made in meetings related 

infrastructure by both public and private 

sectors. 

This year’s report will show that 2007 

was another year of robust growth for the 

international association sector, in terms of 

number of events and overall delegate spend, 

and will highlight, as it does each year, that 

some cities, countries and regions are doing 

better and some are performing worse in 

relative terms compared to their major rivals. 

And as always, we counsel all destinations 

and commentators not to interpret the ICCA 

statistics in isolation, because we only record 

events run by associations that are relevant to 

the marketing and sales needs of our members 

(ie those events that take place regularly and 

rotate between at least three countries), and 

totally ignore the vast and important corporate 

and inter-governmental sectors. Destinations 

need to develop their own comprehensive 

statistical records which cover all the events 

which they host, and these will be the true 

measure of how successful they are in terms 

of the direct economic impact of the meetings 

they host. 

But there is another aspect related to the 

impact of the international association events 

in this statistics report, but which the statistics 

themselves utterly fail to illustrate. This is the 

non-economic impact of such meetings, which 

is never accounted for in any tables of direct 

expenditure by delegates and organisers. 

Most international associations run their events 

in order to achieve a non-financial end result. 

Of course they may have an operational target 

to break-even or hit a particular surplus, but 

this in itself is almost never the end objective. 

Their meetings are held to find cures for or 

raise awareness of diseases, to 

advance scientific understanding, to raise 

professional standards, to transfer knowledge 

to developing countries, to find solutions 

to social and environmental problems, to 

educate new generations of experts, to foster 

trade and development, to improve cultural 

understanding, to create new business 

networks and relationships, to build new 

communities of interest between researchers 

and investors and entrepreneurs, and to 

forge lasting friendships within peer groups 

from around the world who share a love for 

the same thing, whether it be biomechanical 

engineering or origami, whether fine wines or 

gastroenterology. 

When speaking to an Australian professor who 

had successfully attracted a world congress 

on Genetics to take place in his home city, 

I was struck by how proud he was of the 

achievement. But this was not because of 

the millions of dollars that were going to be 

spent by his delegates in hotels, restaurants 

and shops, but because of the hundreds of 

additional Australian postgraduate students 

who now had an opportunity to learn from the 

greatest minds in this field from all around 

the world, and because of the tens of millions 

of dollars of new investment that was sure 

to be attracted into Australia’s cutting-edge 

research institutions. A similar thing happened 

when talking recently to a prominent medical 

association meeting planner: he was thrilled to 

be going to a particular future destination, not 

because of the wonderful hotels, scenery and 

culture on offer, but because this city was in 

the middle of a region with the world’s fastest 

growth of the disease his association was 

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Preface (continued) 


dedicated to eradicating, so this was in his view 

a wonderful opportunity to raise awareness and 

encourage new prevention programmes. 

When destinations really evaluate the full 

potential impact of international association 

meetings, they should be asking questions 

such as: how will this meeting support our 

strategy for university education, or aid our 

long-term economic development or healthcare 

goals; could the experts who visit our city 

help to educate our schoolchildren about 

employment opportunities in their industry 

or scientific endeavour, or hold open days 

to raise awareness amongst our general 

population? Will hosting this event enable our 

local businesses or research institutions to 

raise investment or build strategic relationships 

that will help them to grow and employ more 

high value workers? All of these can produce 

multi-million dollar positive impacts for a 

country or city; occasionally they are vaguely 

acknowledged in passing, almost never is the 

value actually calculated. 

International association meetings are a force 

for good in the world, dramatically greater than 

a simplistic reading of their direct economic 

impact would imply. Hopefully all readers of 

this statistics report will bear this fact in mind 

when evaluating their value to the local host 

destinations and to society in general. 

Martin Sirk 

CEO 

ICCA - International Congress and Convention 

Association 

Toren A 

De Entree 57 

NL-1101 BH Amsterdam 

The Netherlands 

Phone: +31 20 398 1919 

Fax: +31 20 699 0781 

Email: m.sirk@icca.nl 

Website: www.iccaworld.com

Contents 

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06 ICCA products and services 

08 The association meetings market 

12 The international association meetings market 1998-2007 

11 The international association meetings market 1998-2007 - Worldwide 

14 1. Rotation areas of meetings 

15 2. Headquarters of organisations 

16 3. Number of meetings per continent 

17 4. Number of meetings per country 

21 5. Number of meetings per city 

28 6. Average number of participants per event per year 

29 7. Number of participants (categories) 

30 8. Average number of participants per continent per year 


31 9. Estimated total number of participants per continent 

32 10. Estimated total number of participants per country 

34 11. Estimated total number of participants per city 

35 12. Frequency 

36 13. Favourite months 

37 14. Average length 

38 15. Congress venues used 

39 16. Subjects 

41 17. Registration fees and expenditure 

43 The international association meetings market 1998-2007 - Africa 

53 The international association meetings market 1998-2007 - Asia/Pacific & 

Middle East 

65 The international association meetings market 1998-2007 - Europe 

77 The international association meetings market 1998-2007 - North- and Latin 

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ICCA products and services 


ICCA, International Congress and 

Convention Association 

Introduction 

ICCA, the International Congress and 

Convention Association, was founded in 1963 

at a time when the meetings industry was 

beginning to expand rapidly. Now, with over 

850 members in 83 countries, it is the most 

global association within the meetings industry 

and one of the most prominent organisations 

in the world of international events. ICCA 

membership comprises leading companies 

and organisations specialising in handling, 

transporting and accommodating events. 

ICCA Data is the research department of ICCA, 

which collects information on international 

association meetings. This information is 

available to ICCA members only, through an 

online database (www.iccaworld.com). ICCA 

also functions as a platform for ICCA Members 

to share their expertise and marketing 

channels on the corporate meetings market. 

The international meetings market 

Since 1972, the research department has 

assembled information on international 

association meetings. The structure of the 

Association Database is designed to perfectly 

suit the marketing information needs of 

suppliers in the international meeting business. 

To be included, association meetings must 

meet the following criteria: 

• be attended by at least 50 participants 

• be organised on a regular basis (one-time 

events are not included) 

• move between at least 3 different countries 

Detailed overviews of past and future meetings 

are compiled, listing the destinations as well as 

contact addresses, specific information on the 

contracted suppliers and attendance figures. 

As these association meetings tend to not 

come back to the same destination within at 

least ten years, the historical overview of these 

meetings enable suppliers to forecast if an 

international meeting could come to a certain 

destination. 

Details are constantly updated and added to 

the database. ICCA obtains this data from 

three distinct sources: 

• we survey all of the associations whose 

events are already in our database 

• we obtain detailed calendars of past and 

future bookings from ICCA members 

• we run specific research projects on 

individual market segments and areas of 

the world, particularly targeting new event 

series. 

Association Database Online 

A sophisticated computer system ensures that 

ICCA Data researchers can produce data in 

various formats, tailored to the users’ needs. 

Members are provided with a constant flow 

of new association meetings in the database 

to update their own marketing information 

systems. 

The Association Database Online includes ICCA 

Data’s complete Association Database with a 

user-friendly interface. The Online Database 

is the most important information carrier 

for frequent users of ICCA Data, to identify 

meetings that have the potential to come to 

certain destinations. The database is constantly 

updated ensuring it contains the latest 

information. 

Tailor-Made Listings & Statistics 

A tailor-made listing enables any ICCA 

Association Database user to retrieve 

meeting information tailored to his individual 

requirements. Although ICCA Data does not 

claim to have information on all meetings of all 

international associations, it is often used as 

a valuable source for analyses of this market. 

An individual analysis of the database can give 

insight in the regional or worldwide association 

meetings market and can be the basis for a 

better understanding of meeting organisers’ 

requirements. 

Destination Comparison Reports 

Are you wondering how your competitors 

are doing in a specific international meetings 

market segment? Do you want to analyse the 

characteristics of the meetings that are coming 

to your destination? Do you want to analyse 

the characteristics of the Association Meetings 

that have a high potential of coming to your

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destination? A Destination Comparison Report 

is the perfect tool for analysing your current 

position in the market and for targeting your 

future marketing plans. 

These reports contain a Tailor-Made Statistics 

Report, in which your destination (city or 

country) is compared with four of your 

destination’s direct competitors of your choice, 

and a Tailor-Made Listing with 15 high-potential 

leads out of the Association Database, selected 

especially for your destination. 

The Destination Comparison Reports compare 

the following characteristics of the five 

destinations for a range of 10 years: 

• Total number of events per destination 

• Market share per country by number of 

events 

• Rotation areas of the events organised per 

destination 

• Homebase of the international organisations 

organising the events per destination 

• Size of meetings per destination 

• Average number of participants to events 

per destination 

• Estimated total number of participants per 

destination per year 

• Average length of events per destination 

• Suppliers used per destination 

• Subjects of events per destination 

• Average registration fees per destination 

(only included if the registration fees of at 

least 10 events that have taken place in the 

destination in 2007 are known) 

• Number of potential series of events that 

could come to the 5 destinations in the 

future 

Apart from this analysis we will make a special 

selection of series of events in the Association 

Database which are likely to come to your 

destination. These specially selected leads are 

also analysed by a number of characteristics: 

• Rotation areas 

• Participant numbers attending the potential 

series 

• Favourite months and average length of the 

potential series 

• Homebase of the organisations 

• Number of series with and without Key 

Contacts in your destination (as in the 

Association Database) 

• Preferred venues 

• Subjects of the potential series 

• Number of congresses with and without a 

commercial exhibition 

The price for a Destination Comparison Report 

is EUR 395 (ICCA Members only). 

Format: Excel document (*.xls). Production 

time: 10 working days after payment has been 

received. ICCA offers the new Destination 

Comparison Reports based on the new 

Statistics Reports from July 2008 until 31 

January 2009. 

This package gives you all the information 

you need to successfully target your potential 

clients who are listed in the reports! 

ICCA Data Workshops 

ICCA staff run workshops organised on the 

initiative of local members, to familiarise 

their marketing staff in the use of the ICCA 

Data products. ICCA also organises in-house 

workshops at Head Office in spring and 

autumn. 

ICCA Online 

More information on all items mentioned in this 

summary can be found by accessing the ICCA 

website on www.iccaworld.com. 

For additional information on ICCA or this 

report contact: 

Mr. Mathijs Vleeming 

Marketing Project Manager 

ICCA - International Congress and Convention 

Association 

Toren A 

De Entree 57 

NL-1101 BH Amsterdam 

The Netherlands 

Direct phone: +31 20 398 1962 

Fax: +31 20 699 0781 

Email: mathijs@icca.nl 

Website: www.iccaworld.com 


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The association meetings market 


Segmentation 

The international meetings market can be 

segmented in many different ways. It can be 

segmented by the size of the meetings, by the 

kind of people who visit the meetings, by the 

purpose of the meetings and by many more 

criteria. 

However, the main criterion a supplier uses to 

segment the market is by the initiator of the 

meeting. The initiator determines what kind of 

meeting is organised and the kind of supplier 

services needed. When segmenting the 

international meetings market by initiator, two 

primary markets can be defined: the corporate 

market and the non-corporate market. The 

latter consists of international governmental 

organisations and international nongovernmental 

organisations or associations. 

International Meetings 

Characteristics of the association market 

The association market covers a wide range of 

event types and categories: medical meetings 

(the largest segment); scientific; other 

academic; trade organisations; professional 

bodies; social groupings. In terms of size, 

budget, duration and complexity there are 

massive variations between and also within 

categories. However, some similarities can be 

identified: 

• Almost every ‘specialty’ has an association 

which holds one or more meetings. 

• Most associations have meetings that are 

repeated at regular intervals. 

These can be annual, biennial etc. 

• The destinations rotate. They rarely return 

to the same destination within a very short 

time-span. 

Corporate Meetings 

• Internal Meetings 

• External Meetings 

• In/External Meetings 

Association Meetings 

• International 

Governmental 

Organisations 

• International 

Non-Governmental 

Organisations 

(associations) 

ICCA’s area of expertise is in the international 

association meetings market, but it also assists 

ICCA members to share knowledge on the 

other segments. 

• The initiative to host a meeting often 

comes from the local counterpart, e.g. the 

national association. If that body is difficult 

to motivate to organise the meeting, the 

chances are high that the meeting will be 

scheduled elsewhere. 

• Association meetings have a very long leadtime; 

it is not unusual to find lead times of 

5 years or more. 

• It is estimated that a growing minority 

of about 25-30% of the decision-making 

processes no longer include an official 

bidding procedure, but have a “central 

initiator” who selects the location and 

venues based on pre-determined and strict 

criteria.

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It is estimated that there are approximately 

15,000 different association meetings 

organised on a regular basis. The ICCA 

Association Database has collected information 

on approximately 87% of them. 

Other sources of information on 

international meetings 

The international meetings market is also 

analysed by the UIA (Union of International 

Associations). However, the criteria of the UIA 

meetings differ from the criteria ICCA uses. 

UIA 

For the purpose of its annual statistics, 

“international meetings” are defined by the UIA 

to include either one or both of the following 

criteria: 

1. Meetings organised or sponsored by 

“international organisations”, i.e.nongovernmental 

organisations (NGOs) and 

intergovernmental organisations (IGOs) that 

appear in the UIA’s Yearbook of International 

Organisations* and in its International 

Congress Calendar and whose details are 

subject to systematic collection on an annual 

basis by the UIA. 

Excluded from the UIA figures are: 

• purely national meetings as well as those 

of an essential religious, didactic, political, 

commercial or sporting nature. 

• meetings with strictly limited participation 

such as those of subsidiary (internal) 

statutory bodies, committees, group 

of experts, etc., of which the greatest 

proportion are held at an intergovernmental 

level and take place at the headquarters 

of the large international governmental 

organisations headquartered in New York, 

Geneva, Rome, Brussels, Vienna and so on. 

• corporate and incentive meetings which are 

not included in the UIA’s meeting dataset. 

Whilst there is a considerable overlap between 

the events considered by ICCA and UIA for 

their statistics, the most important difference 

from a marketing point of view is that UIA’s 

events include those which are held in a fixed 

location, whereas all of ICCA’s events must 

rotate between at least three countries. 


• this includes events of any size, though 

only meetings with at least 50 participants, 

or for which there is no information on the 

number of participants, are included in 

report. 

• this includes events which have a fixed city 

or country 

2. Other meetings of significant international 

character, notably those organised by national 

organisations and national branches of 

international associations, and which: 

• last at least 3 days, or an unknown number 

of days, and have a concurrent exhibition 

or 

• last at least 3 days, or an unknown number 

of days, and have at least 300 participants.





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Scope of this report 

This Statistics Report, covering the International 

Association Meetings Market from 1998 

until 2007 is the second report published in 

2008. The statistics report covering 2007 was 

published early June. These reports are your 

guide for any future decisions and a must-have 

if you are a supplier or client in the meetings 

industry. 

The ICCA Statistics Reports are based on the 

ICCA Association Database, which means the 

figures cover meetings organised by international 

associations which take place on a regular 

basis and which rotate between a minimum 

of three countries. ICCA’s Association Database 

is designed as a sales and marketing resource 

for its members to target future international 

association meetings, which is why it does not 

include one-off events or those which do not 

move between locations. 

Readers should note that this report is a “snapshot” 

of qualifying events in the ICCA Association 

Database as sampled on 4 June 2008, and 

that future statistics may be amended as ICCA 

becomes aware of additional qualifying events. 

All data on meetings in 2007 sent in by ICCA 

Members before the deadline of 1 February 

2008 are included in this report. 

All data presented in the tables in this report 

is sorted by the ranking of 2007. In this report 

the “standard competition ranking method” is 

used, which is the most commonly used ranking 

method. 

This report can be downloaded for free by ICCA 

members from the My ICCA section on 

www.iccaworld.com. “The International Association 

Meetings Market 2007” is also sent 

to over 2,500 association meeting planners all 

over the world. ICCA encourages associations 

to use the statistics as a practical way to identify 

potential new destinations for their events. 

Number of meetings analysed 

The number of events in the ICCA Association 

Database has grown with more than a third 

since 1998. Partly this reflects the strength of 

the market, partly it is thanks to the fact that 

more and more ICCA members are sending in 

their calendar information to help identify new 

events, and partly it is thanks to increased 

research investment. 

Year 

# Events 

1998 4,245 

1999 4,352 

2000 4,931 

2001 4,951 

2002 5,628 

2003 5,781 

2004 6,653 

2005 6,810 

2006 6,768 

2007 6,681 

Rotation areas of meetings 

Over the last 10 years the percentage of 

meetings in the Association Database rotating 

worldwide has dropped from almost 55% in 

1998 to less than 48% in 2007. The number of 

meetings with rotation area “Europe” climbed 

from 28.4% in 1998 to 31.7% in 2007. The 

number of meetings which rotate within Asia 

and within Latin America have also increased 

significantly over the years. 

Headquarters of international 

organisations 

58.1% of the headquarters of associations 

which organised international meetings in 2007 

are based in Europe. 

Number of meetings per continent 

The percentage of meetings organised in 

Europe dropped from 58.5%% in 2003 to 

55.7% in 2007. Asia’s market share was 15% 

in 2003 and grew to 18.8%, gaining almost 

one full percentage point in the last year. North 

America’s market share dropped from around 

14% at the end of the nineties to 11.5% in 

2007 and Latin America’s market share gained 

two percentage points in the last 10 years to 

8.3% in 2007. 

Number of meetings per country 

Since 2004, the U.S.A. and Germany are the 

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measured by the number of international 

meetings organised per year. Spain, fifth in 

2006, climbs two places to third in 2007. 

Number of meetings per city 

As in 2005 and 2006, Vienna tops the charts as 

the most popular city; its first place has even 

become stronger compared to previous years. 

Berlin jumps four places to number two and 

Singapore remains third. 

Participant numbers 

In the year 2000 the average number of 

participants per meeting was the highest over 

the past 10 years with an average of 838 

participants per international meeting. Since 

2000 the average number of participants 

per meeting dropped, reaching the lowest 

average of the past 10 years in 2005 with 

629 participants per meeting. In 2006 the 

average number climbed to 689, but in 2007 

the average was 656 participants per meeting, 

which is a drop of 16 compared to last year. 

Most meetings in the Association Database 

have between 250 and 500 participants, and 

more than 15% of all the meetings have more 

than 1000 participants. 

The estimated total number of participants to 

all meetings in the ICCA Association Database 

is over 4.2 billion. 

As in the number of meetings per country 

ranking, the U.S.A. is the number one country 

measured by the estimated total number 

of participants per country, with 427,556 

participants in 2007. Italy is second and 

Germany is third. 

The city that hosted most events in 2007, 

Vienna, also is the number one city measured 

by estimated total number of participants in 

2007. Barcelona takes second place in this 

ranking and Berlin third. 

Frequency 

The number of annual meetings has relatively 

increased over the past 10 years from 47% 

in 1998 to 58% in 2007, which is the highest 

percentage of the last 10 years. The amount 

of biennial meetings (which means they take 

place every 2 years) is gradually dropping over 

the years from 30% of all meetings in 1998 to 

21% in 2007, which is the lowest percentage of 

the last 10 years. 

Favourite months and length 

September has been the most popular month 

for organising international meetings over 

the past 10 years. The period from May until 

October has always been the most popular 

time to organise meetings in the past 10 years. 

Over the last 10 years meetings became 

shorter; the average length of a meeting in 

1998 was 4.44 days, in 2007 the average of a 

meeting is 3.94 days, which is the exact same 

average as 2006. 

Venues used 

Since 2005, “Meeting facilities in Hotels” has 

taken over as most popular type of venue to 

organise an event from “Conference/Exhibition 

Centres”. In 2007 the usage of meeting 

facilities in hotels consolidated it’s first place 

with 41.4%. Usage of conference/exhibition 

centres lost more ground in 2007 and is now 

32.7%. The use of universities as a congress 

venue has risen one percentage point to 

16.4%. Usage of other venues, like castles, 

boats etc. was 9.5% in 2007. 

Subjects 

Medical Science has been the most occuring 

subject of international association meetings 

in the last 10 years, even though the relative 

number of meetings with a medical science 

subject has dropped from 19.6% in 1998 

to 18.5% in 2007. Technology, Science and 

Industry have always been in the top 4 with 

Medical Sciences for the last 10 years. 

Registration fees and total expenditure 

The average registration fee per delegate per 

meeting in 2007 is USD 565. This is the highest 

average registration fee since 2004. 

The estimated total income on all meetings in 

the ICCA Association Database is over USD 11 

billion in 2007, which is an all-time record. 


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1. Rotation areas of meetings 


Absolute figures: 

Rotation Area 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

World/International 2,295 2,269 2,618 2,502 2,841 2,820 3,229 3,255 3,218 3,083 

Europe 1,192 1,260 1,382 1,449 1,667 1,779 1,976 2,031 2,104 2,043 

Asia/Pacific 212 225 256 273 308 297 371 382 343 348 

Latin America 111 139 133 166 159 205 201 255 212 244 

Asia 98 122 136 171 176 192 260 262 261 276 

Europe/North America 89 82 109 95 133 129 164 151 159 147 

Scandinavia 94 90 108 103 117 115 142 133 113 116 

Ibero-America 54 46 65 57 74 67 82 78 91 69 

Interamerican 34 41 48 46 54 70 71 72 91 79 

Africa/Middle East 23 23 25 21 28 22 33 33 20 30 

Totals 4,202 4,297 4,880 4,883 5,557 5,696 6,529 6,652 6,612 6,435 

Relative figures: 

Rotation Area 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

World/International 54.6% 52.8% 53.6% 51.2% 51.1% 49.5% 49.5% 48.9% 48.7% 47.9% 

Europe 28.4% 29.3% 28.3% 29.7% 30.0% 31.2% 30.3% 30.5% 31.8% 31.7% 

Asia/Pacific 5.0% 5.2% 5.2% 5.6% 5.5% 5.2% 5.7% 5.7% 5.2% 5.4% 

Latin America 2.6% 3.2% 2.7% 3.4% 2.9% 3.6% 3.1% 3.8% 3.2% 3.8% 

Asia 2.3% 2.8% 2.8% 3.5% 3.2% 3.4% 4.0% 3.9% 3.9% 4.3% 

Europe/North America 2.1% 1.9% 2.2% 1.9% 2.4% 2.3% 2.5% 2.3% 2.4% 2.3% 

Scandinavia 2.2% 2.1% 2.2% 2.1% 2.1% 2.0% 2.2% 2.0% 1.7% 1.8% 

Ibero-America 1.3% 1.1% 1.3% 1.2% 1.3% 1.2% 1.3% 1.2% 1.4% 1.1% 

Interamerican 0.8% 1.0% 1.0% 0.9% 1.0% 1.2% 1.1% 1.1% 1.4% 1.2% 

Africa/Middle East 0.5% 0.5% 0.5% 0.4% 0.5% 0.4% 0.5% 0.5% 0.3% 0.5% 

Totals 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 

Only international association meetings of which the rotation areas are known by ICCA are 

included in these figures. 

Over the last 10 years the percentage of meetings in the Association Database rotating worldwide 

has dropped from almost 55% in 1998 to less than 48% in 2007. The number of meetings with 

rotation area “Europe” climbed from 28.4% in 1998 to 31.7% in 2007. The number of meetings 

which rotate within Asia and within Latin America have also increased significantly over the years.

2. Headquarters of organisations 

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Continent 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

Europe 2,113 2,175 2,408 2,434 2,767 2,840 3,239 3,255 3,361 3,121 

North America 799 793 928 960 1,050 1,092 1,230 1,289 1,298 1,291 

Asia & Middle East 307 340 397 402 478 477 562 583 568 547 

Latin America 121 140 159 159 177 202 212 228 226 240 

Australia 80 74 84 82 92 105 118 124 132 126 

Africa 30 41 32 40 41 38 48 48 36 50 

Totals 3,450 3,563 4,008 4,077 4,605 4,754 5,409 5,527 5,621 5,375 


Continent 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

Europe 61.2% 61.0% 60.1% 59.7% 60.1% 59.7% 59.9% 58.9% 59.8% 58.1% 

North America 23.2% 22.3% 23.2% 23.5% 22.8% 23.0% 22.7% 23.3% 23.1% 24.0% 

Asia & Middle East 8.9% 9.5% 9.9% 9.9% 10.4% 10.0% 10.4% 10.5% 10.1% 10.2% 

Latin America 3.5% 3.9% 4.0% 3.9% 3.8% 4.2% 3.9% 4.1% 4.0% 4.5% 

Australia 2.3% 2.1% 2.1% 2.0% 2.0% 2.2% 2.2% 2.2% 2.3% 2.3% 

Africa 0.9% 1.2% 0.8% 1.0% 0.9% 0.8% 0.9% 0.9% 0.6% 0.9% 

Totals 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 

Only headquarters of international organisations which organised meetings in 1998-2007 and 

whose address is known by ICCA are included in these figures. 


58.1% of the headquarters of associations which organised international meetings in 2007 are 

based in Europe. This percentage was almost 60% in 2006 and over 61% in 1998 so it dropped 

more than 2% in the past 10 years. The percentage of headquarters in North America, Asia & 

Middle East and Latin America (respectively 2nd, 3rd and 4th in this ranking) has risen over the 

years. The number of headquarters in Australia and Africa remained relatively stable over the 

years.

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3. Number of meetings per continent 



Continent 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

Europe 2,465 2,477 2,796 2,817 3,254 3,381 3,795 3,854 3,840 3,719 

Asia & Middle East 647 695 721 791 892 867 1,167 1,220 1,209 1,257 

North America 591 629 718 667 812 788 866 814 792 766 

Latin America 269 283 349 355 346 412 451 543 554 552 

Australia 149 164 225 199 189 197 223 216 233 232 

Africa 124 104 122 122 135 136 151 163 140 155 

Totals 4,245 4,352 4,931 4,951 5,628 5,781 6,653 6,810 6,768 6,681 


Continent 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

Europe 58.1% 56.9% 56.7% 56.9% 57.8% 58.5% 57.0% 56.6% 56.7% 55.7% 

Asia & Middle East 15.2% 16.0% 14.6% 16.0% 15.8% 15.0% 17.5% 17.9% 17.9% 18.8% 

North America 13.9% 14.5% 14.6% 13.5% 14.4% 13.6% 13.0% 12.0% 11.7% 11.5% 

Latin America 6.3% 6.5% 7.1% 7.2% 6.1% 7.1% 6.8% 8.0% 8.2% 8.3% 

Australia 3.5% 3.8% 4.6% 4.0% 3.4% 3.4% 3.4% 3.2% 3.4% 3.5% 

Africa 2.9% 2.4% 2.5% 2.5% 2.4% 2.4% 2.3% 2.4% 2.1% 2.3% 

Totals 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 

Graph 1. Market share per continent by number of meetings per year 

This graph and tables include all events taking place in 1998-2007. 

The percentage of meetings organised in Europe dropped from 58.5%% in 2003 to 55.7% in 2007. 

Asia’s market share was 15% in 2003 and grew to 18.8%, gaining almost one full percentage point 

in the last year. North America’s market share dropped from around 14% at the end of the nineties 

to 11.5% in 2007 and Latin America’s market share gained two percentage points in the last 10 

years to 8.3% in 2007, Australia’s market share is currently at the same level as it was in 1998, 

while Africa’s market share has slightly shrunk over the past 10 years from 2.9% in 1998 to 2.3% 

in 2007.

4. Number of meetings per country 

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Rank Country 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

1 U.S.A. 409 446 509 451 537 535 568 569 522 467 

2 Germany 225 272 324 282 306 314 380 368 389 430 

3 Spain 200 195 200 218 298 296 360 319 293 307 

4 United Kingdom 273 267 312 230 284 310 297 345 318 282 

5 France 228 218 283 256 253 263 346 328 316 255 

6 Italy 196 209 231 257 272 306 284 279 257 250 

7 Japan 163 149 168 207 200 189 180 197 194 215 

8 Brazil 76 73 114 92 90 106 138 159 212 209 

9 Austria 103 95 99 102 112 152 163 177 222 204 

10 Canada 128 134 157 153 179 154 184 167 178 197 

11 China-P.R. 56 67 79 79 118 76 202 203 189 195 

Netherlands 146 152 184 182 160 182 228 229 211 195 

13 Australia 125 139 197 159 164 163 179 184 200 194 

14 Switzerland 90 83 102 106 149 164 155 175 181 175 

15 Portugal 114 55 79 91 110 128 136 131 132 153 

16 Sweden 128 99 130 139 141 146 150 152 149 137 

17 Belgium 101 74 97 86 115 93 118 128 116 124 

18 Finland 98 117 103 117 114 120 120 114 111 121 

19 Republic of Korea 63 67 49 102 104 85 132 124 141 120 

Singapore 45 48 63 56 67 78 106 131 133 120 

21 Greece 66 73 56 82 114 91 113 116 135 117 

22 Hungary 55 64 71 56 91 82 105 116 116 112 

23 Denmark 92 85 85 114 130 102 104 97 102 100 

Mexico 54 49 52 61 93 98 113 78 92 100 

25 Turkey 26 40 34 51 50 60 74 86 84 95 

26 Norway 62 78 80 71 85 96 94 79 77 93 

27 Malaysia 37 40 38 53 70 64 86 58 97 92 

Thailand 33 43 62 39 75 91 101 93 84 92 

29 Chinese Taipei 40 47 39 44 60 44 63 65 57 90 

30 Poland 32 45 67 78 60 59 91 103 94 89 

31 Ireland 31 40 38 43 51 76 69 81 60 83 

32 Czech Republic 54 68 51 64 73 104 93 96 112 82 

33 India 31 43 20 36 47 54 58 70 69 79 

34 Hong Kong, China-P.R. 32 46 53 61 43 41 89 98 66 72 

35 South Africa 67 62 71 61 54 60 74 67 67 67 

36 Argentina 43 42 55 62 45 44 61 75 53 60 

37 Chile 25 36 28 27 38 43 54 67 58 48 

38 Slovenia 25 25 28 22 34 27 45 41 41 45 

39 Russia 18 21 17 27 45 39 36 42 41 41 

40 Indonesia 18 17 19 23 27 24 26 38 31 36 

41 Croatia 19 12 17 24 30 29 38 29 29 35 

New Zealand 20 22 23 36 21 31 37 29 28 35 

43 Colombia 15 16 15 15 13 17 18 40 24 34 

Uruguay 15 14 19 25 15 18 15 33 33 34 

45 Latvia 6 3 6 13 14 10 9 17 46 30 


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Rank Country 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

46 Philippines 31 28 39 31 25 34 23 30 38 26 

Vietnam 1 8 3 12 8 16 19 25 19 26 

48 Estonia 5 3 5 5 13 22 21 23 23 23 

49 Romania 3 11 8 17 22 13 20 20 18 21 

50 Ecuador 3 7 4 7 10 13 18 13 14 20 

51 Cuba 8 11 18 23 15 33 22 33 26 19 

Egypt 10 13 7 16 19 14 13 17 23 19 

United Arab Emirates 3 5 6 2 9 14 16 17 19 

54 Dominican Republic 3 7 5 7 4 12 13 9 11 18 

Lithuania 6 2 4 6 11 10 13 20 21 18 

Peru 13 15 14 11 23 21 27 24 20 18 

57 Iceland 10 16 31 12 24 23 23 26 21 16 

58 Bulgaria 5 6 3 4 13 5 16 11 24 15 

59 Panama 3 10 14 5 8 15 8 14 20 14 

Venezuela 15 12 12 15 15 9 14 11 10 14 

61 Malta 7 9 10 13 12 13 18 21 22 13 

Morocco 12 7 8 8 10 15 9 16 11 13 

63 Cyprus 3 8 6 11 18 10 15 27 20 12 

64 Bolivia 3 2 4 8 13 9 2 5 8 11 

Costa Rica 8 4 10 14 13 11 14 10 10 11 

Kenya 8 3 5 4 3 7 7 11 1 11 

Macao, China-P.R. 4 6 1 1 5 5 2 6 12 11 

Monaco 10 6 11 8 10 10 8 8 12 11 

Serbia 2 2 1 2 13 12 9 11 

Slovak Republic 15 15 11 13 22 10 19 13 18 11 

71 Puerto Rico 9 8 8 9 9 8 11 10 9 10 

Sri Lanka 3 3 5 3 4 6 11 9 9 10 

Ukraine 4 4 1 4 3 7 4 6 12 10 

74 Guatemala 2 4 5 10 8 11 13 6 11 9 

Tunisia 3 1 5 5 7 7 10 10 5 9 

76 Israel 60 43 41 16 10 3 4 4 8 8 

77 Luxembourg 6 6 6 7 8 7 12 18 11 7 

78 Senegal 4 3 2 4 3 2 5 10 3 6 

Tanzania 1 2 6 6 2 1 1 6 

80 Iran 1 3 3 1 1 3 5 8 3 5 

Pakistan 2 5 1 1 5 1 7 4 5 

Paraguay 4 4 3 4 6 8 1 8 8 5 

Other* 74 62 87 80 93 103 111 99 96 79 

Total 4,245 4,352 4,931 4,951 5,628 5,781 6,653 6,810 6,768 6,681 

* All other countries hosted less than 5 meetings in 2007.


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Rank Country 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

1 U.S.A. 9.6% 10.2% 10.3% 9.1% 9.5% 9.3% 8.5% 8.4% 7.7% 7.0% 

2 Germany 5.3% 6.3% 6.6% 5.7% 5.4% 5.4% 5.7% 5.4% 5.7% 6.4% 

3 Spain 4.7% 4.5% 4.1% 4.4% 5.3% 5.1% 5.4% 4.7% 4.3% 4.6% 

4 United Kingdom 6.4% 6.1% 6.3% 4.6% 5.0% 5.4% 4.5% 5.1% 4.7% 4.2% 

5 France 5.4% 5.0% 5.7% 5.2% 4.5% 4.5% 5.2% 4.8% 4.7% 3.8% 

6 Italy 4.6% 4.8% 4.7% 5.2% 4.8% 5.3% 4.3% 4.1% 3.8% 3.7% 

7 Japan 3.8% 3.4% 3.4% 4.2% 3.6% 3.3% 2.7% 2.9% 2.9% 3.2% 

8 Brazil 1.8% 1.7% 2.3% 1.9% 1.6% 1.8% 2.1% 2.3% 3.1% 3.1% 

9 Austria 2.4% 2.2% 2.0% 2.1% 2.0% 2.6% 2.5% 2.6% 3.3% 3.1% 

10 Canada 3.0% 3.1% 3.2% 3.1% 3.2% 2.7% 2.8% 2.5% 2.6% 2.9% 

11 China-P.R. 1.3% 1.5% 1.6% 1.6% 2.1% 1.3% 3.0% 3.0% 2.8% 2.9% 

Netherlands 3.4% 3.5% 3.7% 3.7% 2.8% 3.1% 3.4% 3.4% 3.1% 2.9% 

13 Australia 2.9% 3.2% 4.0% 3.2% 2.9% 2.8% 2.7% 2.7% 3.0% 2.9% 

14 Switzerland 2.1% 1.9% 2.1% 2.1% 2.6% 2.8% 2.3% 2.6% 2.7% 2.6% 

15 Portugal 2.7% 1.3% 1.6% 1.8% 2.0% 2.2% 2.0% 1.9% 2.0% 2.3% 

16 Sweden 3.0% 2.3% 2.6% 2.8% 2.5% 2.5% 2.3% 2.2% 2.2% 2.1% 

17 Belgium 2.4% 1.7% 2.0% 1.7% 2.0% 1.6% 1.8% 1.9% 1.7% 1.9% 

18 Finland 2.3% 2.7% 2.1% 2.4% 2.0% 2.1% 1.8% 1.7% 1.6% 1.8% 

19 Republic of Korea 1.5% 1.5% 1.0% 2.1% 1.8% 1.5% 2.0% 1.8% 2.1% 1.8% 

Singapore 1.1% 1.1% 1.3% 1.1% 1.2% 1.3% 1.6% 1.9% 2.0% 1.8% 

21 Greece 1.6% 1.7% 1.1% 1.7% 2.0% 1.6% 1.7% 1.7% 2.0% 1.8% 

22 Hungary 1.3% 1.5% 1.4% 1.1% 1.6% 1.4% 1.6% 1.7% 1.7% 1.7% 

23 Denmark 2.2% 2.0% 1.7% 2.3% 2.3% 1.8% 1.6% 1.4% 1.5% 1.5% 

Mexico 1.3% 1.1% 1.1% 1.2% 1.7% 1.7% 1.7% 1.1% 1.4% 1.5% 

25 Turkey 0.6% 0.9% 0.7% 1.0% 0.9% 1.0% 1.1% 1.3% 1.2% 1.4% 

26 Norway 1.5% 1.8% 1.6% 1.4% 1.5% 1.7% 1.4% 1.2% 1.1% 1.4% 

27 Malaysia 0.9% 0.9% 0.8% 1.1% 1.2% 1.1% 1.3% 0.9% 1.4% 1.4% 

Thailand 0.8% 1.0% 1.3% 0.8% 1.3% 1.6% 1.5% 1.4% 1.2% 1.4% 

29 Chinese Taipei 0.9% 1.1% 0.8% 0.9% 1.1% 0.8% 0.9% 1.0% 0.8% 1.3% 

30 Poland 0.8% 1.0% 1.4% 1.6% 1.1% 1.0% 1.4% 1.5% 1.4% 1.3% 

31 Ireland 0.7% 0.9% 0.8% 0.9% 0.9% 1.3% 1.0% 1.2% 0.9% 1.2% 

32 Czech Republic 1.3% 1.6% 1.0% 1.3% 1.3% 1.8% 1.4% 1.4% 1.7% 1.2% 

33 India 0.7% 1.0% 0.4% 0.7% 0.8% 0.9% 0.9% 1.0% 1.0% 1.2% 

34 Hong Kong, China-P.R. 0.8% 1.1% 1.1% 1.2% 0.8% 0.7% 1.3% 1.4% 1.0% 1.1% 

35 South Africa 1.6% 1.4% 1.4% 1.2% 1.0% 1.0% 1.1% 1.0% 1.0% 1.0% 

36 Argentina 1.0% 1.0% 1.1% 1.3% 0.8% 0.8% 0.9% 1.1% 0.8% 0.9% 

37 Chile 0.6% 0.8% 0.6% 0.5% 0.7% 0.7% 0.8% 1.0% 0.9% 0.7% 

38 Slovenia 0.6% 0.6% 0.6% 0.4% 0.6% 0.5% 0.7% 0.6% 0.6% 0.7% 

39 Russia 0.4% 0.5% 0.3% 0.5% 0.8% 0.7% 0.5% 0.6% 0.6% 0.6% 

40 Indonesia 0.4% 0.4% 0.4% 0.5% 0.5% 0.4% 0.4% 0.6% 0.5% 0.5% 

41 Croatia 0.4% 0.3% 0.3% 0.5% 0.5% 0.5% 0.6% 0.4% 0.4% 0.5% 

New Zealand 0.5% 0.5% 0.5% 0.7% 0.4% 0.5% 0.6% 0.4% 0.4% 0.5% 

43 Colombia 0.4% 0.4% 0.3% 0.3% 0.2% 0.3% 0.3% 0.6% 0.4% 0.5% 

Uruguay 0.4% 0.3% 0.4% 0.5% 0.3% 0.3% 0.2% 0.5% 0.5% 0.5% 

45 Latvia 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.3% 0.2% 0.2% 0.1% 0.2% 0.7% 0.4% 


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Rank Country 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

46 Philippines 0.7% 0.6% 0.8% 0.6% 0.4% 0.6% 0.3% 0.4% 0.6% 0.4% 

Vietnam 0.0% 0.2% 0.1% 0.2% 0.1% 0.3% 0.3% 0.4% 0.3% 0.4% 

48 Estonia 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.2% 0.4% 0.3% 0.3% 0.3% 0.3% 

49 Romania 0.1% 0.3% 0.2% 0.3% 0.4% 0.2% 0.3% 0.3% 0.3% 0.3% 

50 Ecuador 0.1% 0.2% 0.1% 0.1% 0.2% 0.2% 0.3% 0.2% 0.2% 0.3% 

51 Cuba 0.2% 0.3% 0.4% 0.5% 0.3% 0.6% 0.3% 0.5% 0.4% 0.3% 

Egypt 0.2% 0.3% 0.1% 0.3% 0.3% 0.2% 0.2% 0.2% 0.3% 0.3% 

United Arab Emirates 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.2% 0.2% 0.3% 0.3% 

54 Dominican Republic 0.1% 0.2% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.2% 0.2% 0.1% 0.2% 0.3% 

Lithuania 0.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1% 0.2% 0.2% 0.2% 0.3% 0.3% 0.3% 

Peru 0.3% 0.3% 0.3% 0.2% 0.4% 0.4% 0.4% 0.4% 0.3% 0.3% 

57 Iceland 0.2% 0.4% 0.6% 0.2% 0.4% 0.4% 0.3% 0.4% 0.3% 0.2% 

58 Bulgaria 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.2% 0.1% 0.2% 0.2% 0.4% 0.2% 

59 Panama 0.1% 0.2% 0.3% 0.1% 0.1% 0.3% 0.1% 0.2% 0.3% 0.2% 

Venezuela 0.4% 0.3% 0.2% 0.3% 0.3% 0.2% 0.2% 0.2% 0.1% 0.2% 

61 Malta 0.2% 0.2% 0.2% 0.3% 0.2% 0.2% 0.3% 0.3% 0.3% 0.2% 

Morocco 0.3% 0.2% 0.2% 0.2% 0.2% 0.3% 0.1% 0.2% 0.2% 0.2% 

63 Cyprus 0.1% 0.2% 0.1% 0.2% 0.3% 0.2% 0.2% 0.4% 0.3% 0.2% 

64 Bolivia 0.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.2% 0.2% 0.2% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1% 0.2% 

Costa Rica 0.2% 0.1% 0.2% 0.3% 0.2% 0.2% 0.2% 0.1% 0.1% 0.2% 

Kenya 0.2% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.2% 0.0% 0.2% 

Macao, China-P.R. 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.2% 0.2% 

Monaco 0.2% 0.1% 0.2% 0.2% 0.2% 0.2% 0.1% 0.1% 0.2% 0.2% 

Serbia 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.2% 0.2% 0.1% 0.2% 

Slovak Republic 0.4% 0.3% 0.2% 0.3% 0.4% 0.2% 0.3% 0.2% 0.3% 0.2% 

71 Puerto Rico 0.2% 0.2% 0.2% 0.2% 0.2% 0.1% 0.2% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 

Sri Lanka 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.2% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 

Ukraine 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.2% 0.1% 

74 Guatemala 0.0% 0.1% 0.1% 0.2% 0.1% 0.2% 0.2% 0.1% 0.2% 0.1% 

Tunisia 0.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.2% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 

76 Israel 1.4% 1.0% 0.8% 0.3% 0.2% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 

77 Luxembourg 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.2% 0.3% 0.2% 0.1% 

78 Senegal 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1% 

Tanzania 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 

80 Iran 0.0% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1% 

Pakistan 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 

Paraguay 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 

Other 1.7% 1.4% 1.8% 1.6% 1.7% 1.8% 1.7% 1.5% 1.4% 1.2% 

Total 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 

Since 2004, the U.S.A. and Germany are the number one and two countries respectively measured 

by the number of international meetings organised per year. Spain, fifth in 2006, climbs two places 

to third in 2007, at the cost of The United Kingdom and France, which both dropped one place in 

the ranking to respectively fourth and fifth. Brazil, which was the first Latin American country ever 

to make the top 10 in 2006, is consolidating its position by taking eighth place in 2007.

5. Number of meetings per city 

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Rank City 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

1 Vienna 74 65 64 65 75 101 116 136 155 154 

2 Berlin 42 61 70 64 73 96 114 103 107 123 

3 Singapore 45 48 63 56 67 78 106 131 133 120 

4 Paris 71 60 107 90 84 91 125 121 148 115 

5 Barcelona 56 55 55 71 101 94 131 127 104 106 

6 Budapest 42 50 53 48 71 67 89 94 95 90 

Lisbon 68 34 43 47 61 72 75 76 72 90 

8 Beijing 29 32 45 41 52 29 100 90 81 87 

9 Amsterdam 62 55 63 57 66 59 77 91 82 82 

10 Madrid 68 45 54 50 54 59 66 64 59 77 

11 Copenhagen 64 59 48 74 92 63 75 78 72 76 

12 Hong Kong 32 46 53 61 43 41 89 98 66 72 

Prague 41 59 42 54 58 90 81 81 102 72 

14 Bangkok 17 29 32 29 51 64 70 65 63 70 

Seoul 44 50 29 68 69 50 82 79 90 70 

Stockholm 66 43 61 63 72 65 70 73 66 70 

17 London 56 56 79 59 64 68 71 84 79 69 

18 Taipei 30 35 29 39 43 31 49 53 39 67 

19 Brussels 45 36 46 43 52 42 59 67 67 66 

Istanbul 17 23 27 32 33 46 48 55 64 66 

Kuala Lumpur 22 30 19 34 49 39 57 45 70 66 

22 Sydney, NSW 36 53 61 55 55 44 42 55 55 65 

23 Sao Paulo 28 12 15 9 17 12 23 27 55 61 

24 Dublin 22 27 23 36 35 56 48 63 43 59 

25 Athens 24 22 20 30 41 41 55 55 64 54 

26 Vancouver, BC 27 29 24 30 33 22 43 38 54 49 

27 Montreal, QC 24 25 35 32 40 39 44 37 33 48 

28 Tokyo 32 42 31 42 33 37 35 57 42 47 

29 Munich 15 29 31 28 40 22 36 54 33 45 

Oslo 27 31 30 22 37 40 44 26 27 45 

Shanghai 7 8 9 17 32 14 45 46 43 45 

32 Buenos Aires 29 29 40 39 29 25 46 51 41 44 

Geneva 25 14 27 19 44 40 43 53 47 44 

Rome 38 42 27 53 56 69 67 59 42 44 

35 Helsinki 42 57 50 60 44 66 51 42 46 43 

36 Edinburgh 39 37 46 33 47 44 40 54 48 41 

37 Cape Town 27 14 30 17 23 18 40 36 42 40 

Zurich 11 17 17 15 19 23 18 26 38 40 

39 Rio de Janeiro 20 27 48 32 31 32 38 43 50 37 

40 Melbourne, VIC 30 35 36 34 30 40 37 53 53 36 

Toronto, ON 16 22 25 17 32 19 36 27 27 36 

Warsaw 13 20 21 26 27 22 26 36 30 36 

43 Kyoto 20 10 21 23 31 25 23 20 25 31 

Sevilla 13 17 16 16 28 21 29 23 17 31 

45 Riga 5 3 6 12 11 9 8 15 39 30 


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Rank City 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

46 New York City, NY 13 14 20 19 23 22 28 37 25 29 

Valencia 10 12 11 12 15 22 27 22 21 29 

48 Glasgow 16 20 23 22 22 33 32 35 30 28 

Santiago de Chile 15 26 19 18 27 31 34 46 40 28 

50 Salvador (Bahia) 2 3 5 4 4 13 10 18 17 27 

51 Cancun, Qr. 10 9 11 18 21 18 24 15 14 26 

New Delhi 15 16 6 10 23 19 22 29 24 26 

53 Florence 18 27 30 16 30 23 25 22 20 25 

Göteborg 16 17 22 22 24 29 25 27 31 25 

San Diego, Ca 13 11 13 15 23 27 13 21 20 25 

56 Brisbane, QLD 14 17 18 25 14 15 35 14 22 23 

Hamburg 20 9 19 7 11 16 15 16 18 23 

Ljubljana 10 11 13 10 16 18 24 17 28 23 

Perth, WA 8 8 15 9 14 10 15 13 18 23 

Porto 17 5 16 18 18 15 21 16 20 23 

The Hague 14 14 18 10 14 15 25 15 25 23 

62 Boston, MA 23 21 23 10 29 23 30 27 31 22 

Cracow 9 12 22 25 13 16 24 24 25 22 

Mexico City 13 13 14 15 20 28 30 24 32 22 

Montevideo 10 10 9 17 9 11 10 23 21 22 

Turku 11 8 8 6 12 9 15 15 8 22 

67 Thessaloniki 7 7 8 9 11 10 15 15 14 21 

68 Basel 3 6 12 6 16 13 11 16 23 20 

Gent 12 5 8 9 11 11 14 14 17 20 

70 Chicago, IL 11 15 27 15 19 20 36 25 23 19 

Lyon 12 22 19 17 16 22 24 28 18 19 

Rotterdam 6 10 13 21 10 14 19 21 13 19 

Washington, DC 28 26 30 28 34 29 31 28 25 19 

74 Antwerp 10 9 11 7 13 9 14 16 8 18 

Bali 7 11 10 15 12 11 11 18 11 18 

Cairns, QLD 3 3 12 7 13 9 14 16 14 18 

Hanoi 0 6 1 10 5 12 16 17 13 18 

San Francisco, Ca 22 19 21 25 15 30 19 21 25 18 

79 Jeju 3 4 6 9 11 9 22 17 14 17 

Moscow 7 8 7 15 22 16 16 24 16 17 

Nice 25 15 21 12 17 14 22 16 20 17 

Uppsala 7 5 9 8 10 11 23 18 20 17 

83 Frankfurt am Main 7 6 11 4 6 10 8 18 9 16 

Havana 8 10 16 18 15 29 20 28 23 16 

Manchester 13 9 7 8 18 9 17 23 15 16 

Reykjavik 9 14 30 12 23 21 21 24 20 16 

Tallinn 4 2 3 3 9 17 16 18 16 16 

Vilnius 5 0 2 6 7 8 10 17 18 16


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Rank City 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

89 Cartagena 7 10 12 8 8 11 12 19 10 15 

Orlando, Fl 12 15 11 10 21 21 12 16 16 15 

Seattle, Wa 10 8 10 15 16 18 12 9 21 15 

Yokohama 10 10 14 9 14 9 18 15 19 15 

93 Antalya 2 10 2 11 8 5 7 12 9 14 

Bergen 9 12 20 18 20 16 17 19 16 14 

Busan 0 0 4 7 8 13 9 8 23 14 

Cairo 5 13 6 13 16 8 9 13 20 14 

Cologne 12 3 2 6 4 6 6 10 11 14 

Dresden 10 16 14 9 11 15 15 13 19 14 

Dubai 2 4 3 0 2 6 11 11 12 14 

Espoo 9 11 12 10 8 11 11 10 9 14 

Manila 23 19 30 28 17 22 16 24 25 14 

Oxford 13 8 11 7 16 10 9 11 11 14 

Panama City 1 9 13 5 8 14 8 14 19 14 

Quito 2 5 1 6 5 8 16 9 12 14 

Santo Domingo 3 4 3 7 2 7 9 6 9 14 

Torino 9 8 11 12 11 12 6 19 20 14 

Trondheim 7 7 11 7 12 18 9 10 10 14 

108 Leipzig 1 6 6 9 8 2 9 7 11 13 

Milan 9 17 12 12 9 20 10 18 16 13 

Salzburg 9 3 5 6 9 12 10 8 15 13 

Sofia 1 4 0 3 6 1 9 9 13 13 

St. Petersburg 6 11 7 10 14 18 15 13 17 13 

Tampere 9 7 11 19 16 8 15 12 15 13 

114 Bogota 3 1 1 4 3 5 4 9 10 12 

Marrakech 9 3 4 5 7 10 5 13 7 12 

Miami, FL 5 4 8 3 11 13 12 14 10 12 

Mumbai 3 5 3 6 4 6 12 12 9 12 

Osaka 7 12 10 15 22 14 14 8 12 12 

Zagreb 11 3 7 6 10 11 11 13 6 12 

120 Adelaide, S.A. 14 7 13 15 14 11 17 8 19 11 

Auckland 8 9 7 15 5 8 12 14 14 11 

Berne 4 2 3 7 6 10 13 12 9 11 

Bologna 12 7 19 4 13 7 11 14 14 11 

Dubrovnik 4 6 3 7 14 8 12 7 13 11 

Durban 10 15 13 16 9 15 9 13 7 11 

Graz 3 8 10 5 6 16 12 9 12 11 

Lausanne 17 8 8 12 14 13 14 13 15 11 

Lima 13 11 9 9 19 15 21 21 16 11 

Macao 3 6 1 1 4 4 2 6 12 11 

Monte Carlo 9 6 8 6 10 10 8 7 12 11 

Naples 11 5 11 11 12 9 6 8 12 11 

San Jose 7 3 8 13 9 9 12 8 9 11 


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Rank City 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

120* Sendai 5 5 4 7 4 5 5 4 4 11 

Venice 15 14 12 19 8 13 25 9 17 11 

135 Bilbao 1 5 5 6 5 9 9 20 8 10 

Bonn 4 9 9 9 5 12 5 16 17 10 

Cardiff 5 3 7 6 9 5 5 10 8 10 

Freiburg 3 3 2 2 3 2 9 0 9 10 

Fukuoka 6 6 5 6 8 7 10 5 7 10 

Honolulu, HI 4 6 15 13 14 11 13 6 8 10 

Merida 0 2 4 1 6 11 9 10 11 10 

Monterrey 2 3 0 3 3 4 5 2 1 10 

Montpellier 9 3 11 11 11 8 17 8 13 10 

Nairobi 6 2 4 2 3 5 7 10 1 10 

New Orleans, LA 8 3 10 12 15 10 11 14 6 10 

Porto Alegre,Rs 1 0 4 5 6 2 11 3 4 10 

Portoroz 8 4 6 4 10 5 5 9 6 10 

Quebec City 10 10 14 18 13 13 6 12 15 10 

Stuttgart 8 2 7 2 2 9 11 7 9 10 

150 Bangalore 3 4 2 8 6 10 6 7 10 9 

Bucharest 1 7 3 8 10 9 10 12 10 9 

Delft 1 8 9 10 7 8 10 7 6 9 

Florianopolis,Sc 2 1 2 5 0 7 7 6 7 9 

Gold Coast, Qld. 3 1 10 1 7 3 4 8 3 9 

Groningen 2 1 5 5 3 11 11 8 6 9 

Guatemala City 0 3 3 6 2 7 7 3 9 9 

Heidelberg 9 9 10 8 14 7 12 9 9 9 

Johannesburg 6 6 10 6 5 13 13 4 4 9 

Kobe 9 5 4 7 6 7 7 7 11 9 

Liverpool 2 1 0 0 2 4 4 4 12 9 

Maastricht 12 22 18 16 13 11 12 15 17 9 

Marseille 7 8 8 4 4 6 9 15 4 9 

Pattaya 3 4 4 1 3 4 5 7 7 9 

Pisa 5 1 6 3 5 9 7 7 7 9 

Potsdam 3 3 9 5 6 2 7 5 12 9 

Strasbourg 15 8 11 9 9 5 6 9 7 9 

Wroclaw 1 2 2 3 5 2 13 3 6 9 

168 Belgrade 0 1 1 1 0 1 9 11 7 8 

Bled 6 6 5 3 6 3 7 10 3 8 

Brugge 11 8 7 6 15 6 5 6 5 8 

Catania, Sicily 2 2 5 1 3 4 3 1 4 8 

Chennai 1 5 2 5 2 3 2 5 4 8 

Christchurch 5 1 3 10 6 10 10 3 6 8 

Colombo 2 2 3 3 3 5 7 9 7 8 

Ho Chi Minh City 0 1 2 2 3 4 3 7 6 8 

Hyderabad 0 1 2 0 1 2 3 4 2 8 

* shared ranking continued from previous page


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Rank City 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

168* Innsbruck 5 6 7 6 5 6 10 12 17 8 

Jakarta 5 3 1 3 3 6 8 11 10 8 

Kaohsiung 4 2 3 1 5 3 5 3 12 8 

Nagoya 8 7 9 13 12 9 6 10 8 8 

Ottawa, ONT 11 9 12 12 15 15 18 9 7 8 

Penang 5 3 5 8 1 6 9 2 6 8 

Punta del Este 5 4 8 7 5 7 4 7 7 8 

San Antonio, Tx 3 9 8 5 3 7 2 3 5 8 

Vina del Mar 6 1 2 1 3 5 3 6 2 8 

186 Aalborg 3 4 10 8 6 2 3 8 2 7 

Atlanta, GA 8 11 11 10 10 5 12 6 8 7 

Berkeley, CA 2 4 6 2 5 5 2 2 2 7 

Brighton, Sussex 9 8 14 6 2 2 7 3 2 7 

Chiang Mai 8 4 13 4 7 14 12 9 7 7 

Cusco 0 0 2 0 2 2 2 3 2 7 

Galway 0 1 2 0 1 3 6 4 3 7 

Genova 5 5 3 4 12 10 13 6 6 7 

Grenoble 6 5 4 7 7 7 12 10 4 7 

Houston, TX 7 4 5 4 8 2 7 2 4 7 

Las Vegas, NV 10 8 6 9 8 9 12 14 6 7 

Limerick 3 1 5 3 1 5 2 4 9 7 

Los Angeles, CA 4 9 14 10 8 6 9 11 11 7 

Lugano,Ti 4 3 3 2 4 10 2 2 1 7 

Luxembourg 6 4 6 5 7 5 10 17 11 7 

Minneapolis, MN 3 4 5 5 6 4 5 8 10 7 

NewcastleGateshead 0 5 1 2 1 3 4 9 6 7 

Philadelphia, Pa 10 9 5 8 9 7 12 15 10 7 

Portland, Or 3 1 4 6 5 6 8 3 7 7 

Southampton 4 3 2 1 3 2 2 0 12 7 

Tsukuba 6 6 8 10 8 9 5 8 4 7 

Xiamen, Fj 0 1 1 0 4 1 2 0 1 7 

208 Baltimore, MD 9 4 7 3 9 6 4 7 3 6 

Banff, AB 4 1 7 5 10 10 10 6 4 6 

Bordeaux 7 4 7 13 6 12 5 7 5 6 

Bratislava 5 9 8 13 15 4 14 8 13 6 

Bremen 3 2 6 5 4 1 1 5 9 6 

Calgary, AB 4 8 6 4 6 5 4 7 6 6 

Cambridge 13 12 21 11 14 16 22 8 12 6 

Cebu City 2 3 2 1 4 8 4 1 7 6 

Cork 1 5 3 1 5 5 7 6 1 6 

Crete 5 9 4 2 13 11 7 9 2 6 

Daejeon 3 2 1 2 3 3 4 1 1 6 

Dakar 4 3 2 4 3 2 5 9 2 6 

Davos 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 4 5 6 



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Rank City 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

208* Duesseldorf 5 5 5 6 3 7 2 3 7 6 

Faro 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 6 

Foz Do Iguacu 0 3 4 1 4 3 8 8 4 6 

Kiev 2 2 0 1 1 4 2 3 10 6 

Kita-Kyushu 4 0 0 3 2 2 4 0 0 6 

Les Diablerets 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 2 4 6 

Leuven 10 4 9 4 11 8 14 15 10 6 

Lund 5 10 5 10 5 5 6 6 6 6 

Malmö 2 2 7 10 6 6 7 5 7 6 

Medellin 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 6 

Nara 3 4 1 5 8 8 3 8 4 6 

Nuremberg 1 4 2 7 4 1 5 7 1 6 

Ouro Preto 1 0 1 1 1 3 1 0 2 6 

Puebla 4 3 3 3 5 4 4 0 4 6 

Regensburg 0 1 1 2 3 1 5 1 1 6 

Rhodes 8 6 4 11 9 7 10 6 10 6 

San Juan 4 7 5 5 7 7 9 8 6 6 

San Sebastian 7 4 3 0 3 3 3 0 3 6 

Santa Cruz 3 1 2 3 9 4 0 4 4 6 

Sorrento 4 4 4 10 7 6 6 6 4 6 

Stavanger 4 6 3 5 4 4 6 2 5 6 

Trieste 4 6 3 4 3 5 4 6 1 6 

Victoria, BC 4 2 4 4 4 3 1 5 6 6 

244 Aachen 4 6 7 3 4 9 8 3 2 5 

Abu Dhabi 1 1 3 0 0 0 2 3 5 5 

Ankara 2 3 2 4 2 4 5 4 5 5 

Arusha 1 0 0 1 4 3 2 0 1 5 

Austin, TX 4 5 3 2 3 1 2 3 5 5 

Belfast 7 1 2 5 3 10 4 10 11 5 

Bochum 0 1 1 0 0 2 2 3 1 5 

Campinas,Sao Paulo 2 1 2 2 2 2 1 1 6 5 

Chengdu, Sc 0 1 2 0 1 1 3 1 6 5 

Corfu 3 2 2 0 3 1 1 3 1 5 

Guadalajara 3 1 4 3 8 5 11 6 5 5 

Guayaquil 1 1 3 1 3 3 0 2 2 5 

Halifax, NS 5 3 7 1 3 6 3 3 3 5 

Hiroshima 3 1 3 3 3 0 1 1 1 5 

Isla de Margarita 3 2 1 2 8 1 3 1 3 5 

Kumamoto 0 2 2 2 1 0 0 0 3 5 

Leiden 3 2 7 4 1 1 7 2 5 5 

Mainz 2 1 4 1 1 5 9 1 3 5 

Mar del Plata 2 1 3 8 4 4 4 7 0 5 

Nanjing 1 2 3 1 1 3 7 3 1 5 

Padova 3 2 3 6 6 7 3 2 2 5 



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Rank City 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

244* Patras 2 3 4 1 1 0 0 1 2 5 

Pittsburgh, Pa 7 6 7 2 7 7 4 5 7 5 

Santorini 0 1 2 2 5 1 5 4 2 5 

St. Julians 1 3 1 6 3 7 7 6 9 5 

Tartu 0 1 1 1 2 3 3 5 4 5 

Teheran 1 3 3 1 3 5 6 2 5 

Toulouse 7 10 19 13 15 18 25 10 10 5 

Trento 1 4 3 1 1 3 5 4 3 5 

Tuebingen 0 3 4 3 3 0 2 2 4 5 

Weimar 0 3 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 5 

Xi'an (Sian) 0 2 4 2 3 1 5 2 6 5 

Other 1,297 1,358 1,457 1,460 1,583 1,656 1,710 1,738 1,668 1,344 

Total 4,245 4,352 4,931 4,951 5,628 5,781 6,653 6,810 6,768 6,681 

* shared ranking continued from previous page 

As in 2005 and 2006, Vienna tops the charts as the most popular city; its first place has even 

become stronger compared to previous years. Berlin jumps four places to number two and 

Singapore remains third. Paris and Barcelona are fourth and fifth and Budapest remains sixth, 

but is now sharing sixth place with Lisbon. Beijing is a newcomer in the top 10 and climbs from 

thirteenth place in 2006 to eighth in 2007, followed by Amsterdam, which climbs three places to 

ninth. Madrid, nineteenth in 2006, completes the top 10. Taipei is a remarkable newcomer in the 

top 20 as it took fortieth place in 2006. 


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6. Average number of participants 

per event per year 


Year Average participant number 

1998 754 

1999 721 

2000 838 

2001 720 

2002 701 

2003 664 

2004 676 

2005 629 

2006 689 

2007 656 

Graph 2. Average number of participants per event per year 

Only meetings of which the participant numbers are stored in the Association Database are 

included in the above figures. 

Where ICCA holds participant data on at least 3 out of the last 4 years of annual events, we have 

included an estimated average number of participants where confirmed actual attendance data 

was lacking. This estimate was calculated for 1,595 annual events which took place from 1998 to 

2007. 

In the year 2000 the average number of participants per meeting was the highest over the past 

10 years with an average of 838 participants per international meeting. Since 2000 the average 

number of participants per meeting dropped, reaching the lowest average of the past 10 years in 

2005 with 629 participants per meeting. In 2006 the average number climbed to 689, but in 2007 

the average was 656 participants per meeting, which is a drop of 16 compared to last year.

7. Number of participants (categories) 

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Category 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

From 50 to 149 304 252 264 327 417 533 614 795 656 779 

From 150 to 249 334 350 333 334 413 457 542 630 608 656 

From 250 to 499 594 531 572 551 654 593 768 804 877 943 

From 500 to 999 423 459 468 451 447 440 565 586 574 573 

From 1000 to 1999 221 199 269 236 249 239 289 296 290 326 

From 2000 to 2999 71 60 76 70 63 60 85 73 86 100 

From 3000 to 4999 43 47 62 50 57 57 64 69 72 65 

From 5000 to 10000 27 21 34 18 28 28 31 39 38 40 

10000 and up 12 8 16 9 10 9 12 11 19 12 

Totals 2,029 1,927 2,094 2,046 2,338 2,416 2,970 3,303 3,220 3,494 


Category 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

From 50 to 149 15.0% 13.1% 12.6% 16.0% 17.8% 22.1% 20.7% 24.1% 20.4% 22.3% 

From 150 to 249 16.5% 18.2% 15.9% 16.3% 17.7% 18.9% 18.2% 19.1% 18.9% 18.8% 

From 250 to 499 29.3% 27.6% 27.3% 26.9% 28.0% 24.5% 25.9% 24.3% 27.2% 27.0% 

From 500 to 999 20.8% 23.8% 22.3% 22.0% 19.1% 18.2% 19.0% 17.7% 17.8% 16.4% 

From 1000 to 1999 10.9% 10.3% 12.8% 11.5% 10.7% 9.9% 9.7% 9.0% 9.0% 9.3% 

From 2000 to 2999 3.5% 3.1% 3.6% 3.4% 2.7% 2.5% 2.9% 2.2% 2.7% 2.9% 

From 3000 to 4999 2.1% 2.4% 3.0% 2.4% 2.4% 2.4% 2.2% 2.1% 2.2% 1.9% 

From 5000 to 10000 1.3% 1.1% 1.6% 0.9% 1.2% 1.2% 1.0% 1.2% 1.2% 1.1% 

10000 and up 0.6% 0.4% 0.8% 0.4% 0.4% 0.4% 0.4% 0.3% 0.6% 0.3% 

Totals 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 







2007. 

Most meetings in the Association Database have between 250 and 500 participants, and more 

than 15% of all the meetings have more than 1000 participants.

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8. Average number of participants per 

continent per year 


Continent 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

North America 1,362 1,056 1,354 1,134 964 826 1,068 1,319 1,015 767 

Africa 548 694 728 736 560 832 1,533 808 1,094 760 

Europe 673 673 752 680 646 619 606 581 656 626 

Asia 790 647 743 673 765 602 668 553 719 602 

Latin America 797 954 1,170 653 788 896 719 681 645 591 

Australia 563 690 796 656 628 885 559 509 509 529 

Graph 3. Average number of participants per continent per event per year 






2007. 

In 2006, Africa and North America both had an average number of participants of more than 1000 

and Australia had the lowest average participant number of 507. In 2007 the differences between 

the continents have marginalised with a largest average number of participants of 767 per event 

in North America and a smallest of 529 in Australia.

9. Estimated total number of 

participants per continent 

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Continent 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

Europe 1,654,573 1,661,731 2,100,131 1,907,119 2,091,245 2,087,054 2,295,096 2,234,202 2,515,522 2,327,115 

Asia 505,173 449,530 532,817 528,065 678,369 517,078 776,954 669,800 866,706 756,309 

North America 800,699 661,086 963,085 752,516 778,995 645,412 925,066 1,058,806 800,136 587,532 

Latin America 214,279 269,965 408,295 231,915 272,680 369,050 322,404 365,819 356,471 326,118 

Australia 83,895 111,995 177,785 130,615 118,677 172,786 123,845 109,067 117,314 122,746 

Africa 66,897 72,162 87,160 88,048 72,905 113,134 231,441 131,741 153,148 117,806 

Totals 3,325,516 3,226,470 4,269,274 3,638,278 4,012,871 3,904,514 4,674,806 4,569,435 4,809,297 4,237,626 


Continent 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

Europe 49.8% 51.5% 49.2% 52.4% 52.1% 53.5% 49.1% 48.9% 52.3% 54.9% 

Asia 15.2% 13.9% 12.5% 14.5% 16.9% 13.2% 16.6% 14.7% 18.0% 17.8% 

North America 24.1% 20.5% 22.6% 20.7% 19.4% 16.5% 19.8% 23.2% 16.6% 13.9% 

Latin America 6.4% 8.4% 9.6% 6.4% 6.8% 9.5% 6.9% 8.0% 7.4% 7.7% 

Australia 2.5% 3.5% 4.2% 3.6% 3.0% 4.4% 2.6% 2.4% 2.4% 2.9% 

Africa 2.0% 2.2% 2.0% 2.4% 1.8% 2.9% 5.0% 2.9% 3.2% 2.8% 

Totals 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 


Graph 4. Estimated total number of participants per continent per year 

The estimated total number of participants to international meetings per continent is calculated 

by multiplying the total number of meetings in a specific continent with the average number of 

participants per meeting in the same continent. This formula enables events where no accurate 

figures are known to be included in the estimated total. 

The estimated total number of participants to all meetings in the ICCA Association Database is 

over 4.2 billion.

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participants per country 


Rank Country 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

1 U.S.A. 608,004 449,705 612,368 594,923 612,824 416,204 626,276 844,517 477,594 427,556 

2 Italy 103,555 129,506 319,156 134,557 204,731 210,624 269,689 243,720 247,788 349,614 

3 Germany 199,863 211,517 219,373 243,306 267,679 263,306 292,099 208,628 228,696 305,809 

4 Spain 158,147 178,841 149,615 140,558 260,253 209,081 197,041 151,612 312,552 273,421 

5 Austria 91,109 77,602 71,514 81,110 85,585 127,374 108,729 109,369 119,047 175,751 

6 France 194,082 164,154 308,358 194,665 268,502 298,637 379,565 269,955 243,773 162,901 

7 United Kingdom 193,253 173,648 215,256 181,704 149,939 152,379 245,478 178,748 160,612 144,626 

8 Japan 135,192 86,996 125,434 113,139 228,442 156,698 214,562 101,978 187,736 134,234 

9 China-P.R. 28,920 48,320 48,345 71,565 90,713 25,444 111,418 107,081 239,447 133,494 

10 Canada 159,035 127,748 254,593 128,289 143,978 151,092 143,957 198,441 214,950 128,153 

11 Netherlands 116,836 95,634 187,686 157,411 99,024 88,182 95,027 110,203 113,903 120,715 

12 Brazil 84,190 79,713 152,650 57,966 84,375 104,661 115,350 121,316 170,620 113,754 

13 Australia 70,794 101,698 159,461 106,352 106,393 146,824 104,892 93,571 101,352 102,680 

14 Czech Republic 22,579 42,655 45,900 57,456 82,755 100,690 110,580 97,071 93,933 92,194 

15 Switzerland 99,804 41,517 65,138 91,217 84,361 56,130 76,941 68,787 113,080 87,363 

16 Greece 40,445 36,688 29,064 48,406 42,770 51,815 65,817 95,333 221,922 84,354 

17 Turkey 12,619 28,493 24,645 63,804 36,294 61,150 63,344 125,779 93,685 83,180 

18 Sweden 74,794 112,707 90,803 133,973 106,589 60,668 67,503 96,655 96,359 80,673 

19 Mexico 32,818 91,683 72,824 51,375 43,830 65,767 174,714 61,381 83,610 73,591 

20 Argentina 32,269 95,041 97,324 80,763 28,968 50,509 73,387 106,054 30,602 72,987 

21 Portugal 61,114 34,313 61,622 70,407 57,710 126,108 95,974 86,053 48,252 71,274 

22 Thailand 23,473 32,209 39,014 38,619 53,273 44,852 95,604 58,649 41,382 70,958 

23 Republic of Korea 74,143 39,405 61,794 87,133 67,916 35,344 75,782 80,361 121,224 70,798 

24 South Africa 29,015 54,218 53,550 58,114 25,838 47,857 43,135 48,709 77,357 59,184 

25 India 42,524 27,042 19,100 21,547 22,790 45,506 85,028 34,796 33,083 53,934 

26 Belgium 52,589 84,579 124,354 40,952 49,972 35,270 42,880 40,427 40,438 52,848 

27 United Arab Emirates 0 4,000 2,200 0 600 10,800 3,885 10,252 31,238 51,851 

28 Singapore 16,934 61,884 52,489 25,284 19,207 53,382 41,022 51,984 67,970 51,021 

29 Denmark 40,308 44,061 44,598 66,293 64,275 62,702 46,247 105,219 93,095 49,254 

30 Malaysia 24,226 32,920 24,993 47,774 37,993 31,865 41,254 45,803 56,817 47,471 

31 Chinese Taipei 20,943 21,855 40,409 32,615 34,968 26,917 18,798 25,386 39,240 46,481 

32 Hungary 26,516 28,815 26,435 23,794 48,518 21,754 39,808 36,762 34,021 41,703 

33 Poland 21,650 20,115 35,277 23,030 21,088 29,618 36,108 53,916 28,914 40,633 

34 Hong Kong, China-P.R. 17,777 16,431 25,033 31,300 58,571 15,315 44,029 56,531 39,297 40,431 

35 Finland 41,380 53,879 42,052 44,013 32,434 38,852 39,339 27,170 68,443 40,358 

36 Indonesia 4,752 15,899 18,303 13,393 8,141 11,505 10,091 12,715 7,621 35,434 

37 Colombia 19,746 7,627 8,820 5,118 16,807 0 9,600 28,660 3,872 30,269 

38 Russia 7,800 7,308 5,610 17,607 15,402 15,028 12,425 17,045 23,890 30,231 

39 Panama 0 5,600 2,100 20,000 0 10,125 1,600 12,373 6,906 27,015 

40 Norway 24,922 36,738 55,773 23,745 43,717 38,237 27,437 26,618 24,176 26,222 

41 Ireland 23,095 19,203 21,817 19,900 21,913 29,949 26,379 37,187 32,113 25,202 

42 Chile 13,091 25,412 9,387 21,015 28,597 41,140 26,927 40,915 30,960 22,786 

43 Kenya 3,520 660 2,675 1,258 129 7,000 1,400 0 6,000 22,000 

44 Croatia 10,553 4,218 9,350 17,517 12,700 7,082 6,914 9,942 7,141 19,835 

45 New Zealand 10,745 5,478 16,330 22,689 7,431 20,218 14,165 15,779 13,874 18,458


participants per country (continued) 

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Rank Country 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

46 Slovenia 9,351 8,295 7,532 7,331 11,251 16,180 25,862 10,366 25,110 17,567 

47 Uruguay 5,274 8,568 8,930 11,661 0 10,744 6,450 12,705 10,193 16,015 

48 Bulgaria 1,900 2,400 1,800 800 3,897 583 2,901 10,142 3,368 15,488 

49 Ecuador 1,875 2,100 0 1,400 0 17,117 31,130 8,357 8,918 13,023 

50 Romania 960 3,300 0 14,161 28,155 9,295 11,690 6,356 0 12,545 

51 Monaco 5,875 4,330 9,825 6,237 12,960 7,228 7,846 7,030 13,329 11,894 

52 Pakistan 600 1,850 0 700 0 70 0 6,067 14,000 11,855 

53 Morocco 8,606 4,550 5,600 0 2,000 8,263 12,420 22,096 7,332 11,271 

54 Philippines 30,144 24,493 28,831 21,855 8,769 36,652 27,352 20,681 25,422 10,831 

55 Latvia 2,070 0 6,555 5,663 5,004 3,500 2,363 4,107 8,181 10,778 

All other countries had estimated total participant numbers in 2007 lower than 10,000. 

The estimated total number of participants to international meetings per country is calculated 

by multiplying the total number of meetings in a specific country with the average number of 

participants per meeting in the same country. This formula enables events where no accurate 

figures are known to be included in the estimated total. 

As in the number of meetings per country ranking, the U.S.A. is the number one country 

measured by the estimated total number of participants per country, with 427,556 participants 

in 2007. Italy is second, with an estimated total number of participants in 2007 of 139,613, an 

increase of more than 100,000 compared to the 2006 figures. Germany is third with more than 

300.000 participants in 2007. 


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participants per city 


Rank City 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

1 Vienna 51,957 42,904 36,024 36,242 44,306 76,137 70,162 75,279 68,124 117,774 

2 Barcelona 48,700 48,660 22,360 36,272 84,133 48,367 59,669 41,551 89,898 108,933 

3 Berlin 32,515 30,850 23,566 42,408 52,557 57,750 42,657 44,501 40,383 76,171 

4 Madrid 30,704 32,562 29,106 24,424 22,622 50,350 14,585 19,656 48,140 60,828 

5 Paris 36,578 20,056 44,199 34,144 45,141 48,997 87,420 81,834 84,228 52,228 

6 Amsterdam 52,641 20,512 48,581 38,813 16,104 25,866 27,156 34,311 37,658 48,743 

7 Singapore 10,537 39,967 26,661 11,739 11,467 35,588 34,056 42,063 61,326 43,793 

8 Seoul 44,583 20,787 14,723 43,069 28,406 12,344 25,165 46,065 66,640 43,365 

9 Stockholm 25,356 25,741 31,129 36,811 52,305 15,023 25,306 44,906 22,539 43,234 

10 Munich 1,820 11,243 20,654 20,647 9,897 8,560 48,995 31,817 33,298 42,482 

11 Geneva 37,930 7,305 15,365 14,850 22,494 10,968 27,105 29,328 17,732 42,382 

12 Istanbul 3,970 9,987 9,268 23,070 16,752 19,941 16,422 47,121 45,380 33,337 

13 Lisbon 17,086 12,926 20,411 27,218 24,043 66,743 35,006 45,868 22,557 32,779 

14 Bangkok 9,766 11,578 11,918 17,845 24,692 17,169 44,559 28,356 11,772 32,693 

15 Copenhagen 23,160 26,610 17,027 30,713 35,748 32,076 29,874 58,895 60,718 30,835 

16 Rio de Janeiro 28,601 32,018 57,800 13,012 24,250 16,475 17,600 21,795 21,354 28,808 

17 Sydney, NSW 21,062 36,175 38,378 26,961 29,253 33,665 17,687 28,727 25,353 28,604 

18 Taipei 11,159 9,695 8,677 17,969 12,964 10,237 7,879 12,716 12,733 28,036 

19 Kuala Lumpur 5,847 13,410 6,428 17,243 18,403 14,256 18,626 15,875 27,611 27,605 

20 Sao Paulo 12,163 10,500 7,310 3,783 12,130 3,550 10,780 17,603 37,627 27,547 

21 Buenos Aires 11,288 18,103 34,360 19,902 8,490 10,900 20,372 24,033 5,174 25,060 

22 Budapest 14,375 16,200 14,479 7,448 24,284 8,900 19,758 17,401 16,217 25,052 

23 Florence 12,677 6,776 43,180 5,499 15,567 15,872 27,130 6,860 17,738 24,856 

24 Prague 8,920 13,735 19,210 23,827 23,551 36,972 37,699 30,968 42,391 24,313 

25 Glasgow 8,805 13,471 9,861 26,350 12,110 15,495 26,470 22,595 20,365 21,915 

26 Montreal, QC 36,228 7,759 27,369 14,261 23,000 20,287 26,132 43,466 15,399 21,652 

27 Beijing 5,600 9,400 14,698 14,506 9,042 2,777 19,285 11,963 20,073 20,987 

28 Milan 980 7,405 1,734 2,395 6,350 18,178 1,069 19,200 543 20,950 

29 Athens 9,032 7,140 2,050 9,268 7,200 2,276 14,432 26,035 53,985 20,801 

30 Vancouver, BC 11,844 21,430 11,349 17,630 10,082 10,112 18,263 12,188 30,402 20,079 

All other cities had estimated total participant numbers in 2007 lower than 20,000. 

This ranking is calculated by taking the sum of all the participant numbers stored in ICCA 

Association Database. Please note that this is different than the formula that is used to calculate 

the estimated total number of participants per continent and country. 

The city that hosted most events in 2007, Vienna, also is the number one city measured by 

estimated total number of participants in 2007. Barcelona takes second place in this ranking and 

Berlin third.

12. Frequency 

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Frequency 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

Annual 1,815 1,953 2,151 2,341 2,632 2,867 3,157 3,503 3,551 3,521 

Biennial 1,172 1,096 1,298 1,162 1,427 1,261 1,517 1,381 1,403 1,283 

Triennial 335 329 341 392 360 351 429 378 374 405 

4 Years 176 149 226 144 192 147 226 150 172 161 

5 Years 20 14 31 13 14 20 16 35 13 13 

1-2 Years 85 111 125 122 135 141 142 138 154 138 

2-3 Years 86 93 99 100 98 112 103 101 94 97 

3-4 Years 19 27 47 19 18 24 48 20 17 43 

4-5 Years 2 8 7 2 2 6 5 5 2 5 

Every 6 or more years 6 7 5 4 5 13 7 7 6 6 

1 Or 2 Per Year 31 29 28 33 39 47 52 56 48 36 

Biannual 65 79 91 104 132 155 192 210 205 162 

More than twice a year 15 24 31 38 55 63 93 95 143 128 

Irregular 53 50 70 60 75 53 70 66 58 59 

Totals 3,880 3,969 4,550 4,534 5,184 5,260 6,057 6,145 6,240 6,057 


Frequency 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

Annual 46.8% 49.2% 47.3% 51.6% 50.8% 54.5% 52.1% 57.0% 56.9% 58.1% 

Biennial 30.2% 27.6% 28.5% 25.6% 27.5% 24.0% 25.0% 22.5% 22.5% 21.2% 

Triennial 8.6% 8.3% 7.5% 8.6% 6.9% 6.7% 7.1% 6.2% 6.0% 6.7% 

4 Years 4.5% 3.8% 5.0% 3.2% 3.7% 2.8% 3.7% 2.4% 2.8% 2.7% 

5 Years 0.5% 0.4% 0.7% 0.3% 0.3% 0.4% 0.3% 0.6% 0.2% 0.2% 

1-2 Years 2.2% 2.8% 2.7% 2.7% 2.6% 2.7% 2.3% 2.2% 2.5% 2.3% 

2-3 Years 2.2% 2.3% 2.2% 2.2% 1.9% 2.1% 1.7% 1.6% 1.5% 1.6% 

3-4 Years 0.5% 0.7% 1.0% 0.4% 0.3% 0.5% 0.8% 0.3% 0.3% 0.7% 

4-5 Years 0.1% 0.2% 0.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1% 

Every 6 or more years 0.2% 0.2% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.2% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 

1 Or 2 Per Year 0.8% 0.7% 0.6% 0.7% 0.8% 0.9% 0.9% 0.9% 0.8% 0.6% 

Biannual 1.7% 2.0% 2.0% 2.3% 2.5% 2.9% 3.2% 3.4% 3.3% 2.7% 

More than twice a year 0.4% 0.6% 0.7% 0.8% 1.1% 1.2% 1.5% 1.5% 2.3% 2.1% 

Irregular 1.4% 1.3% 1.5% 1.3% 1.4% 1.0% 1.2% 1.1% 0.9% 1.0% 

Totals 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 


All meetings of which the frequency is stored in the Association Database are included in the 

above tables. 

The number of annual meetings has relatively increased over the past 10 years from 47% in 

1998 to 58% in 2007, which is the highest percentage of the last 10 years. The amount of 

biennial meetings (which means they take place every 2 years) is gradually dropping over the 

years from 30% of all meetings in 1998 to 21% in 2007, which is the lowest percentage of the 

last 10 years.

36 13. Favourite months 



Month 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

January 49 60 68 68 72 90 97 116 111 130 

February 58 66 82 76 104 135 161 137 160 136 

March 134 139 148 157 186 217 330 305 333 350 

April 170 201 224 239 295 261 379 443 398 404 

May 344 344 431 458 519 558 675 729 751 745 

June 446 434 517 510 598 655 830 864 845 907 

July 297 311 413 414 456 439 517 543 606 601 

August 348 315 397 301 415 389 504 503 517 492 

September 514 589 632 717 797 847 1,013 1,111 1,067 1070 

October 366 390 439 465 610 620 723 720 864 829 

November 243 236 277 304 313 400 485 573 535 533 

December 68 74 101 92 133 177 152 181 168 182 

Totals 3,037 3,159 3,729 3,801 4,498 4,788 5,866 6,225 6,355 6,379 


Month 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

January 1.6% 1.9% 1.8% 1.8% 1.6% 1.9% 1.7% 1.9% 1.7% 2.0% 

February 1.9% 2.1% 2.2% 2.0% 2.3% 2.8% 2.7% 2.2% 2.5% 2.1% 

March 4.4% 4.4% 4.0% 4.1% 4.1% 4.5% 5.6% 4.9% 5.2% 5.5% 

April 5.6% 6.4% 6.0% 6.3% 6.6% 5.5% 6.5% 7.1% 6.3% 6.3% 

May 11.3% 10.9% 11.6% 12.0% 11.5% 11.7% 11.5% 11.7% 11.8% 11.7% 

June 14.7% 13.7% 13.9% 13.4% 13.3% 13.7% 14.1% 13.9% 13.3% 14.2% 

July 9.8% 9.8% 11.1% 10.9% 10.1% 9.2% 8.8% 8.7% 9.5% 9.4% 

August 11.5% 10.0% 10.6% 7.9% 9.2% 8.1% 8.6% 8.1% 8.1% 7.7% 

September 16.9% 18.6% 16.9% 18.9% 17.7% 17.7% 17.3% 17.8% 16.8% 16.8% 

October 12.1% 12.3% 11.8% 12.2% 13.6% 12.9% 12.3% 11.6% 13.6% 13.0% 

November 8.0% 7.5% 7.4% 8.0% 7.0% 8.4% 8.3% 9.2% 8.4% 8.4% 

December 2.2% 2.3% 2.7% 2.4% 3.0% 3.7% 2.6% 2.9% 2.6% 2.9% 

Totals 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 

Only meetings whose exact dates are stored in the Association Database are included in these 

figures. 

September has been the most popular month for organising international meetings over the past 

10 years. The period from May until October has always been the most popular time to organise 

meetings in the past 10 years. August has become less popular month over the years though. 

December, January and February have been the least favourite months to organise international 

meetings over the past 10 years.

14. Average length 

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Year Average length (in days) 

1998 4.44 

1999 4.36 

2000 4.36 

2001 4.18 

2002 4.21 

2003 4.07 

2004 4.06 

2005 4.00 

2006 3.94 

2007 3.94 


Graph 5. Average length of meetings per year 

Only meetings whose exact dates (and thus duration) are stored in the ICCA Association 

Database are included in these figures. 

Over the last 10 years meetings became shorter; the average length of a meeting in 1998 was 

4.44 days, in 2007 the average of a meeting is 3.94 days, which is the exact same average as 

2006.

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15. Congress venues used 



Type of congress venue 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

Meeting facilities in Hotels 437 478 541 575 602 606 698 830 1,127 1,354 

Conference/Exhibition Centre 563 554 678 642 685 672 757 779 963 1,071 

University 260 271 290 262 261 263 237 285 418 535 

Other Venues 176 167 156 182 194 131 149 162 209 311 

Totals 1,436 1,470 1,665 1,661 1,742 1,672 1,841 2,056 2,717 3,271 



Meeting facilities in Hotels 30.4% 32.5% 32.5% 34.6% 34.6% 36.2% 37.9% 40.4% 41.5% 41.4% 

Conference/Exhibition Centre 39.2% 37.7% 40.7% 38.7% 39.3% 40.2% 41.1% 37.9% 35.4% 32.7% 

University 18.1% 18.4% 17.4% 15.8% 15.0% 15.7% 12.9% 13.9% 15.4% 16.4% 

Other Venues 12.3% 11.4% 9.4% 11.0% 11.1% 7.8% 8.1% 7.9% 7.7% 9.5% 

Totals 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 

Graph 5. Average length of meetings per year 

These tables and this graph includes all events of which the type(s) of suppliers which were used 

to organise the event is/are stored in the Association Database. 

Since 2005, “Meeting facilities in Hotels” has taken over as most popular type of venue to organise 

an event from “Conference/Exhibition Centres”. In 2007 the usage of meeting facilities in hotels 

consolidated it’s first place with 41.4%. Usage of conference/exhibition centres lost more ground 

in 2007 and is now 32.7%. The use of universities as a congress venue has risen one percentage 

point to 16.4%. Usage of other venues, like castles, boats etc. was 9.5% in 2007.

16. Subjects 

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Rank Event Subject 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

1 Medical Sciences 1,061 1,060 1,221 1,167 1,369 1,322 1,558 1,514 1,559 1,549 

2 Technology 684 696 812 825 908 974 1,102 1,155 1,145 1,182 

3 Science 771 804 848 853 957 941 1,065 1,112 1,028 1,061 

4 Industry 382 389 433 430 489 523 599 624 627 620 

5 Education 262 257 304 298 340 358 406 408 425 416 

6 Social Sciences 292 301 344 330 377 394 445 438 423 413 

7 Economics 196 210 264 238 275 309 330 362 358 366 

8 Law 180 186 234 230 290 296 332 362 372 360 

9 Management 170 190 215 227 241 261 303 335 314 352 

10 Commerce 159 169 189 201 220 238 261 271 274 283 

11 Transport & Communication 165 155 179 183 204 218 259 278 290 280 

12 Agriculture 161 150 208 177 195 189 245 207 207 195 

13 Culture & Ideas 152 134 174 157 192 195 216 208 218 195 

14 Ecology & Environment 113 103 119 117 142 145 157 181 165 175 

15 Sports & Leisure 102 115 115 131 140 146 139 161 149 134 

16 Arts 90 88 107 99 120 112 131 113 133 126 

17 Safety & Security 76 71 85 90 98 104 111 118 115 125 

18 Linguistics 74 81 85 89 88 97 114 106 109 107 

19 Mathematics & Statistics 78 59 76 66 91 78 101 96 89 102 

20 Library & Information 60 59 70 70 80 84 85 100 94 83 

21 Architecture 47 53 48 56 58 66 68 85 75 69 

22 Literature 50 46 57 50 57 53 63 64 60 60 

23 Historical Sciences 56 49 59 52 52 67 64 62 59 56 

24 General 10 10 10 11 20 17 24 24 29 27 

25 Geography 20 19 19 23 21 19 24 25 26 24 

Totals 5,411 5,454 6,275 6,170 7,024 7,206 8,202 8,409 8,343 8,360 


40 16. Subjects (continued) 



Rank Event Subject 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

1 Medical Sciences 19.6% 19.4% 19.5% 18.9% 19.5% 18.3% 19.0% 18.0% 18.7% 18.5% 

2 Technology 12.6% 12.8% 12.9% 13.4% 12.9% 13.5% 13.4% 13.7% 13.7% 14.1% 

3 Science 14.2% 14.7% 13.5% 13.8% 13.6% 13.1% 13.0% 13.2% 12.3% 12.7% 

4 Industry 7.1% 7.1% 6.9% 7.0% 7.0% 7.3% 7.3% 7.4% 7.5% 7.4% 

5 Education 4.8% 4.7% 4.8% 4.8% 4.8% 5.0% 5.0% 4.9% 5.1% 5.0% 

6 Social Sciences 5.4% 5.5% 5.5% 5.3% 5.4% 5.5% 5.4% 5.2% 5.1% 4.9% 

7 Economics 3.6% 3.9% 4.2% 3.9% 3.9% 4.3% 4.0% 4.3% 4.3% 4.4% 

8 Law 3.3% 3.4% 3.7% 3.7% 4.1% 4.1% 4.0% 4.3% 4.5% 4.3% 

9 Management 3.1% 3.5% 3.4% 3.7% 3.4% 3.6% 3.7% 4.0% 3.8% 4.2% 

10 Commerce 2.9% 3.1% 3.0% 3.3% 3.1% 3.3% 3.2% 3.2% 3.3% 3.4% 

11 Transport & Communication 3.0% 2.8% 2.9% 3.0% 2.9% 3.0% 3.2% 3.3% 3.5% 3.3% 

12 Agriculture 3.0% 2.8% 3.3% 2.9% 2.8% 2.6% 3.0% 2.5% 2.5% 2.3% 

13 Culture & Ideas 2.8% 2.5% 2.8% 2.5% 2.7% 2.7% 2.6% 2.5% 2.6% 2.3% 

14 Ecology & Environment 2.1% 1.9% 1.9% 1.9% 2.0% 2.0% 1.9% 2.2% 2.0% 2.1% 

15 Sports & Leisure 1.9% 2.1% 1.8% 2.1% 2.0% 2.0% 1.7% 1.9% 1.8% 1.6% 

16 Arts 1.7% 1.6% 1.7% 1.6% 1.7% 1.6% 1.6% 1.3% 1.6% 1.5% 

17 Safety & Security 1.4% 1.3% 1.4% 1.5% 1.4% 1.4% 1.4% 1.4% 1.4% 1.5% 

18 Linguistics 1.4% 1.5% 1.4% 1.4% 1.3% 1.3% 1.4% 1.3% 1.3% 1.3% 

19 Mathematics & Statistics 1.4% 1.1% 1.2% 1.1% 1.3% 1.1% 1.2% 1.1% 1.1% 1.2% 

20 Library & Information 1.1% 1.1% 1.1% 1.1% 1.1% 1.2% 1.0% 1.2% 1.1% 1.0% 

21 Architecture 0.9% 1.0% 0.8% 0.9% 0.8% 0.9% 0.8% 1.0% 0.9% 0.8% 

22 Literature 0.9% 0.8% 0.9% 0.8% 0.8% 0.7% 0.8% 0.8% 0.7% 0.7% 

23 Historical Sciences 1.0% 0.9% 0.9% 0.8% 0.7% 0.9% 0.8% 0.7% 0.7% 0.7% 

24 General 0.2% 0.2% 0.2% 0.2% 0.3% 0.2% 0.3% 0.3% 0.3% 0.3% 

25 Geography 0.4% 0.3% 0.3% 0.4% 0.3% 0.3% 0.3% 0.3% 0.3% 0.3% 

Totals 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 

These figures include all events organised of which the subject matter(s) is/are stored in the ICCA 

Association Database. Please note that an event often has more than one subject matter, which is 

the reason why the total number of meetings in the Subjects table is much higher than the total 

number of meetings organised per year. 

Medical Science has been the most occuring subject of international association meetings in the 

last 10 years, even though the relative number of meetings with a medical science subject has 

dropped from 19.6% in 1998 to 18.5% in 2007. Technology, Science and Industry have always 

been in the top 4 with Medical Sciences for the last 10 years. Technology was third from 1998 

until 2003, and second as of 2004. Education was fifth in 2007.

17. Registration fees and expenditure 

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Average registration fee & total expenditure (USD) per delegate per meeting 

Year Average fee per delegate per meeting Average expenditure per delegate per meeting n 

1998 512 2,327 276 

1999 516 2,345 320 

2000 510 2,318 388 

2001 516 2,345 381 

2002 517 2,350 354 

2003 573 2,605 363 

2004 576 2,618 448 

2005 517 2,350 400 

2006 546 2,482 649 

2007 565 2,568 810 

The average fee per delegate per meeting is calculated by converting all registration fees into USD 

(source: “FXCrossRate - Currency cross rate table” http://www.oanda.com/cgi/crossrate/crossrate. 

shtml on 20 June 2008) and by calculating the average of all meetings of which the registration 

fees are stored in the Association Database per year (which was the case for 810 meetings in 

2007: n=810. This is the biggest population ever used to calculate the average fees). 

The average total expenditures presented in these tables are calculated based on the assumption 

that 22% of the total delegate expenditure is spend on the registration fee. This assumption 

is based on two studies performed in 2004 by the Vienna Convention Bureau and the Finland 

Convention Bureau. Research among delegates of meetings in both destinations showed the same 

percentage of 22%. However, it should be noted that the structure of expenditure might vary per 

destination. 


The average registration fee per delegate per meeting in 2007 is USD 565. This is the highest 

average registration fee since 2004. 

Average registration fee & total expenditure (USD) per delegate per day 

Year Average fee per delegate per day Average expenditure per delegate per day 

1998 120 545 

1999 126 573 

2000 122 555 

2001 124 564 

2002 121 550 

2003 145 659 

2004 146 664 

2005 131 593 

2006 151 686 

2007 162 736 

The average registration fee & expenditure per delegate per day is calculated by first calculating 

the registration fee per day per meeting and then the average of these fees is calculated for 2007.

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17. Registration fees and expenditure 

(continued) 


Average total income (USD) from registration fees of all delegates per meeting & 

average total expenditure by all delegates per international meeting 

Year Average income from fees per meeting Average total expenditure per meeting 

1998 386,048 1,754,764 

1999 372,036 1,691,073 

2000 427,380 1,942,636 

2001 371,520 1,688,727 

2002 362,417 1,647,350 

2003 380,472 1,729,418 

2004 389,376 1,769,891 

2005 325,193 1,478,150 

2006 376,194 1,709,973 

2007 370,640 1,684,727 

The following formula is used to calculate the average income from registration fees per meeting: 

Average registration fee per delegate per meeting * average number of participants per meeting. 

Average total income (USD) from registration fees from all meetings & average total 

expenditure on all international meetings 

Year Average income from fees all meetings Average total expenditure all meetings 

1998 1,638,773,760 7,448,971,636 

1999 1,619,100,672 7,359,548,509 

2000 2,107,410,780 9,579,139,909 

2001 1,839,395,520 8,360,888,727 

2002 2,039,682,876 9,271,285,800 

2003 2,199,508,632 9,997,766,509 

2004 2,590,518,528 11,775,084,218 

2005 2,214,564,330 10,066,201,500 

2006 2,546,080,992 11,573,095,418 

2007 2,476,245,840 11,255,662,909 

The following formula is used to calculate the total income from registration fees from all 

meetings: Average income from registration fees per meeting per year * total number of 

international meetings in the same year. 

The estimated total income on all meetings in the ICCA Association Database is over USD 11 billion 

in 2007, which is an all-time record. 

It should be noted that the above figures relate only to personal expenditures of the delegate and 

do not include additional investments from the organizer neither secondary economical effects for 

the destination.

The international association meetings market 1998-2007 - Africa 





Africa 

await 


98 07

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1. Number of meetings & rotation areas 

The International Association Meetings Market 1998-2007 - Africa 

Number of meetings per year in Africa 

Year # Events Market share 

1998 124 2.9% 

1999 104 2.4% 

2000 122 2.5% 

2001 122 2.5% 

2002 135 2.4% 

2003 136 2.4% 

2004 151 2.3% 

2005 163 2.4% 

2006 140 2.1% 

2007 155 2.3% 

Rotation areas of meetings organised in Africa 


Rotation Area 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

World/International 96 80 92 94 99 108 117 128 112 110 

Africa 21 21 21 17 25 19 29 28 14 27 

Africa/Europe 4 1 2 5 6 2 3 4 7 10 

Commonwealth 0 1 2 2 2 3 2 1 2 3 

Mediterranean 1 1 3 3 3 1 0 2 3 3 

French Speaking Countries 2 0 2 1 0 3 0 0 2 2 

Totals 124 104 122 122 135 136 151 163 140 155 


Rotation Area 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 


Africa 16.9% 20.2% 17.2% 13.9% 18.5% 14.0% 19.2% 17.2% 10.0% 17.4% 

Africa/Europe 3.2% 1.0% 1.6% 4.1% 4.4% 1.5% 2.0% 2.5% 5.0% 6.5% 

Commonwealth 0.0% 1.0% 1.6% 1.6% 1.5% 2.2% 1.3% 0.6% 1.4% 1.9% 

Mediterranean 0.8% 1.0% 2.5% 2.5% 2.2% 0.7% 0.0% 1.2% 2.1% 1.9% 

French Speaking Countries 1.6% 0.0% 1.6% 0.8% 0.0% 2.2% 0.0% 0.0% 1.4% 1.3% 

Totals 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 

Only international association meetings taking place in the continent of Africa and of which the 

rotation areas are known by ICCA are included in these figures.


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Rank Country 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

1 South Africa 67 62 71 61 54 60 74 67 67 67 

2 Egypt 10 13 7 16 19 14 13 17 23 19 

3 Morocco 12 7 8 8 10 15 9 16 11 13 

4 Kenya 8 3 5 4 3 7 7 11 1 11 

5 Tunisia 3 1 5 5 7 7 10 10 5 9 

6 Senegal 4 3 2 4 3 2 5 10 3 6 

Tanzania 1 0 0 2 6 6 2 1 1 6 

8 Cameroon 0 0 2 4 2 1 2 3 1 4 

Uganda 1 0 1 0 2 2 3 4 3 4 

10 Ghana 0 2 4 0 4 2 6 4 5 3 

11 Burkina Faso 1 0 1 1 3 0 1 0 1 2 

12 Algeria 0 0 2 2 0 1 0 0 1 1 

Angola 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 

Congo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 

Ethiopia 0 1 1 0 4 2 0 3 4 1 

Gabon 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 

Libya 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 

Mauritius 1 0 2 2 1 1 1 3 2 1 

Mozambique 1 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 

Namibia 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 

Rwanda 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 

Zambia 0 0 1 2 0 0 1 2 1 1 

Other 14 11 7 9 11 16 15 11 10 0 

Totals 124 104 122 122 135 136 151 163 140 155 

The International Association Meetings Market 1998-2007 - Africa

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(continued) 



Rank Country 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

1 South Africa 54.0% 59.6% 58.2% 50.0% 40.0% 44.1% 49.0% 41.1% 47.9% 43.2% 

2 Egypt 8.1% 12.5% 5.7% 13.1% 14.1% 10.3% 8.6% 10.4% 16.4% 12.3% 

3 Morocco 9.7% 6.7% 6.6% 6.6% 7.4% 11.0% 6.0% 9.8% 7.9% 8.4% 

4 Kenya 6.5% 2.9% 4.1% 3.3% 2.2% 5.1% 4.6% 6.7% 0.7% 7.1% 

5 Tunisia 2.4% 1.0% 4.1% 4.1% 5.2% 5.1% 6.6% 6.1% 3.6% 5.8% 

6 Senegal 3.2% 2.9% 1.6% 3.3% 2.2% 1.5% 3.3% 6.1% 2.1% 3.9% 

Tanzania 0.8% 0.0% 0.0% 1.6% 4.4% 4.4% 1.3% 0.6% 0.7% 3.9% 

8 Cameroon 0.0% 0.0% 1.6% 3.3% 1.5% 0.7% 1.3% 1.8% 0.7% 2.6% 

Uganda 0.8% 0.0% 0.8% 0.0% 1.5% 1.5% 2.0% 2.5% 2.1% 2.6% 

10 Ghana 0.0% 1.9% 3.3% 0.0% 3.0% 1.5% 4.0% 2.5% 3.6% 1.9% 

11 Burkina Faso 0.8% 0.0% 0.8% 0.8% 2.2% 0.0% 0.7% 0.0% 0.7% 1.3% 

12 Algeria 0.0% 0.0% 1.6% 1.6% 0.0% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.7% 0.6% 

Angola 0.0% 0.0% 0.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.6% 

Congo 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.6% 0.0% 0.6% 

Ethiopia 0.0% 1.0% 0.8% 0.0% 3.0% 1.5% 0.0% 1.8% 2.9% 0.6% 

Gabon 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.8% 1.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.6% 

Libya 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.8% 0.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.7% 0.6% 

Mauritius 0.8% 0.0% 1.6% 1.6% 0.7% 0.7% 0.7% 1.8% 1.4% 0.6% 

Mozambique 0.8% 0.0% 0.8% 0.0% 0.7% 0.0% 1.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.6% 

Namibia 0.8% 0.0% 0.8% 0.0% 1.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.6% 

Rwanda 0.0% 1.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.6% 

Zambia 0.0% 0.0% 0.8% 1.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.7% 1.2% 0.7% 0.6% 

Other 11.3% 10.6% 5.7% 7.4% 8.1% 11.8% 9.9% 6.7% 7.1% 0.0% 

Totals 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 

There are no other African countries which organised meetings in 2007.


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Rank City 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

1 Cape Town 27 14 30 17 23 18 40 36 42 40 

2 Cairo 5 13 6 13 16 8 9 13 20 14 

3 Marrakech 9 3 4 5 7 10 5 13 7 12 

4 Durban 10 15 13 16 9 15 9 13 7 11 

5 Nairobi 6 2 4 2 3 5 7 10 1 10 

6 Johannesburg 6 6 10 6 5 13 13 4 4 9 

7 Dakar 4 3 2 4 3 2 5 9 2 6 

8 Arusha 1 0 0 1 4 3 2 0 1 5 

9 Kampala 1 0 1 0 2 2 2 3 1 4 

Yaounde 0 0 2 4 2 1 0 2 1 4 

11 Accra 0 2 3 0 3 1 5 4 5 3 

Tunis 2 1 2 2 4 3 5 3 1 3 

13 Alexandria 1 0 1 1 0 5 0 2 2 2 

Hammamet 0 0 2 1 2 1 2 4 3 2 

Ouagadougou 1 0 1 1 3 0 1 0 1 2 

Pretoria 8 7 5 1 5 5 3 3 5 2 

Sharm el Sheikh 1 0 0 1 2 0 1 1 0 2 

Soussa 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 2 

Sun City 5 6 5 5 3 1 2 2 3 2 

Other 36 32 31 42 38 43 38 41 34 20 

Totals 124 104 122 122 135 136 151 163 140 155 

All other African cities organised 1 or no international association meetings in 2007. 

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Year 

Average participant number 

1998 548 

1999 694 

2000 728 

2001 736 

2002 560 

2003 832 

2004 1,533 

2005 808 

2006 1,094 

2007 760 

Graph 6. Average number of participants per meeting in Africa per year 





was lacking.


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Category 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

From 50 to 149 10 5 12 10 7 5 5 9 5 3 

From 150 to 249 9 10 6 8 12 6 13 6 3 11 

From 250 to 499 17 13 9 15 17 10 18 17 13 17 

From 500 to 999 14 9 11 9 5 13 19 18 15 9 

From 1000 to 1999 5 7 9 3 5 6 3 9 5 10 

From 2000 to 2999 2 1 0 1 1 2 1 2 1 4 

From 3000 to 4999 1 0 0 0 2 2 0 4 3 2 

From 5000 to 10000 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 

10000 and up 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 

Totals 58 46 48 47 49 45 61 66 47 56 


Category 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

From 50 to 149 17.2% 10.9% 25.0% 21.3% 14.3% 11.1% 8.2% 13.6% 10.6% 5.4% 

From 150 to 249 15.5% 21.7% 12.5% 17.0% 24.5% 13.3% 21.3% 9.1% 6.4% 19.6% 

From 250 to 499 29.3% 28.3% 18.8% 31.9% 34.7% 22.2% 29.5% 25.8% 27.7% 30.4% 

From 500 to 999 24.1% 19.6% 22.9% 19.1% 10.2% 28.9% 31.1% 27.3% 31.9% 16.1% 

From 1000 to 1999 8.6% 15.2% 18.8% 6.4% 10.2% 13.3% 4.9% 13.6% 10.6% 17.9% 

From 2000 to 2999 3.4% 2.2% 0.0% 2.1% 2.0% 4.4% 1.6% 3.0% 2.1% 7.1% 

From 3000 to 4999 1.7% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 4.1% 4.4% 0.0% 6.1% 6.4% 3.6% 

From 5000 to 10000 0.0% 2.2% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 2.2% 1.6% 1.5% 2.1% 0.0% 

10000 and up 0.0% 0.0% 2.1% 2.1% 0.0% 0.0% 1.6% 0.0% 2.1% 0.0% 

Totals 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 






was lacking.




1998 5.67 

1999 5.12 

2000 5.26 

2001 5.02 

2002 5.14 

2003 4.89 

2004 4.96 

2005 4.99 

2006 4.68 

2007 4.74 

Graph 7. Average length per meeting in Africa per year 


Database are included in these figures.


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Conference/Exhibition Centre 11 13 12 14 16 22 21 40 30 41 

Meeting facilities in Hotels 7 9 9 12 8 9 11 11 22 20 

University 10 5 5 6 6 3 2 1 2 2 

Other Venues 3 2 2 7 8 2 2 3 0 0 

Totals 31 29 28 39 38 36 36 55 54 63 





University 32.3% 17.2% 17.9% 15.4% 15.8% 8.3% 5.6% 1.8% 3.7% 3.2% 

Other Venues 9.7% 6.9% 7.1% 17.9% 21.1% 5.6% 5.6% 5.5% 0.0% 0.0% 

Totals 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 


Graph 8. Congress venues used for meetings in Africa per year 


to organise the event is/are stored in the Association Database.

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8. African countries included 

in this report 


Algeria 

Angola 

Benin 

Botswana 

Burkina Faso 

Burundi 

Cameroon 

Cape Verde 

Congo 

Egypt 

Equatorial Guinea 

Ethiopia 

Gabon 

Gambia 

Ghana 

Guinea 

Ivory Coast 

Kenya 

Libya 

Madagascar 

Malawi 

Mali 

Mauritania 

Mauritius 

Morocco 

Mozambique 

Namibia 

Niger 

Nigeria 

Rwanda 

Senegal 

South Africa 

Sudan 

Tanzania 

Togo 

Tunisia 

Uganda 

Zambia 

Zimbabwe

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1. Number of meetings & rotation areas 

The International Association Meetings Market 1998-2007 - Asia/Pacific & Middle East 

Number of meetings per year in Asia/Pacific & Middle East 


1998 796 18.7% 

1999 859 19.8% 

2000 946 19.2% 

2001 990 20.0% 

2002 1,081 19.2% 

2003 1,064 18.4% 

2004 1,390 20.9% 

2005 1,436 21.1% 

2006 1,442 21.3% 

2007 1,489 22.3% 

Rotation areas of meetings organised in Asia/Pacific & Middle East 


Rotation Area 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 


Asia/Pacific 177 186 212 218 255 246 308 323 329 337 

Asia 87 107 117 153 152 169 227 234 234 253 

Pacific Rim 19 24 22 36 32 27 32 35 31 34 

Asean Countries 16 17 22 20 28 27 35 29 31 24 

Europe 16 16 19 15 6 6 12 18 17 22 

Middle East 1 0 3 2 0 1 2 1 1 0 

Totals 796 859 946 990 1,081 1,064 1,390 1,436 1,442 1,489 


Rotation Area 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 


Asia/Pacific 22.2% 21.7% 22.4% 22.0% 23.6% 23.1% 22.2% 22.5% 22.8% 22.6% 

Asia 10.9% 12.5% 12.4% 15.5% 14.1% 15.9% 16.3% 16.3% 16.2% 17.0% 

Pacific Rim 2.4% 2.8% 2.3% 3.6% 3.0% 2.5% 2.3% 2.4% 2.1% 2.3% 

Asean Countries 2.0% 2.0% 2.3% 2.0% 2.6% 2.5% 2.5% 2.0% 2.1% 1.6% 

Europe 2.0% 1.9% 2.0% 1.5% 0.6% 0.6% 0.9% 1.3% 1.2% 1.5% 

Middle East 0.1% 0.0% 0.3% 0.2% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 

Totals 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 

Only international association meetings taking place in the continents of Asia/Pacific & Middle 

East and of which the rotation areas are known by ICCA are included in these figures.


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Rank Country 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

1 Japan 163 149 168 207 200 189 180 197 194 215 

2 China-P.R. 56 67 79 79 118 76 202 203 189 195 

3 Australia 125 139 197 159 164 163 179 184 200 194 

4 Republic of Korea 63 67 49 102 104 85 132 124 141 120 

Singapore 45 48 63 56 67 78 106 131 133 120 

6 Malaysia 37 40 38 53 70 64 86 58 97 92 

Thailand 33 43 62 39 75 91 101 93 84 92 

8 Chinese Taipei 40 47 39 44 60 44 63 65 57 90 

9 India 31 43 20 36 47 54 58 70 69 79 

10 Hong Kong, China-P.R. 32 46 53 61 43 41 89 98 66 72 

11 Indonesia 18 17 19 23 27 24 26 38 31 36 

12 New Zealand 20 22 23 36 21 31 37 29 28 35 

13 Philippines 31 28 39 31 25 34 23 30 38 26 

Vietnam 1 8 3 12 8 16 19 25 19 26 

15 United Arab Emirates 3 5 6 0 2 9 14 16 17 19 

16 Macao, China-P.R. 4 6 1 1 5 5 2 6 12 11 

17 Sri Lanka 3 3 5 3 4 6 11 9 9 10 

18 Israel 60 43 41 16 10 3 4 4 8 8 

19 Iran 1 3 3 1 1 3 5 8 3 5 

Pakistan 2 5 0 1 1 5 1 7 4 5 

Other 28 30 38 30 29 43 52 41 37 39 

Totals 796 859 946 990 1,081 1,064 1,390 1,436 1,436 1,489 

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Rank Country 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

1 Japan 20.5% 17.3% 17.8% 20.9% 18.5% 17.8% 12.9% 13.7% 13.5% 14.4% 

2 China-P.R. 7.0% 7.8% 8.4% 8.0% 10.9% 7.1% 14.5% 14.1% 13.2% 13.1% 

3 Australia 15.7% 16.2% 20.8% 16.1% 15.2% 15.3% 12.9% 12.8% 13.9% 13.0% 

4 Republic of Korea 7.9% 7.8% 5.2% 10.3% 9.6% 8.0% 9.5% 8.6% 9.8% 8.1% 

Singapore 5.7% 5.6% 6.7% 5.7% 6.2% 7.3% 7.6% 9.1% 9.3% 8.1% 

6 Malaysia 4.6% 4.7% 4.0% 5.4% 6.5% 6.0% 6.2% 4.0% 6.8% 6.2% 

Thailand 4.1% 5.0% 6.6% 3.9% 6.9% 8.6% 7.3% 6.5% 5.8% 6.2% 

8 Chinese Taipei 5.0% 5.5% 4.1% 4.4% 5.6% 4.1% 4.5% 4.5% 4.0% 6.0% 

9 India 3.9% 5.0% 2.1% 3.6% 4.3% 5.1% 4.2% 4.9% 4.8% 5.3% 

10 Hong Kong, China-P.R. 4.0% 5.4% 5.6% 6.2% 4.0% 3.9% 6.4% 6.8% 4.6% 4.8% 

11 Indonesia 2.3% 2.0% 2.0% 2.3% 2.5% 2.3% 1.9% 2.6% 2.2% 2.4% 

12 New Zealand 2.5% 2.6% 2.4% 3.6% 1.9% 2.9% 2.7% 2.0% 1.9% 2.4% 

13 Philippines 3.9% 3.3% 4.1% 3.1% 2.3% 3.2% 1.7% 2.1% 2.6% 1.7% 

Vietnam 0.1% 0.9% 0.3% 1.2% 0.7% 1.5% 1.4% 1.7% 1.3% 1.7% 

15 United Arab Emirates 0.4% 0.6% 0.6% 0.0% 0.2% 0.8% 1.0% 1.1% 1.2% 1.3% 

16 Macao, China-P.R. 0.5% 0.7% 0.1% 0.1% 0.5% 0.5% 0.1% 0.4% 0.8% 0.7% 

17 Sri Lanka 0.4% 0.3% 0.5% 0.3% 0.4% 0.6% 0.8% 0.6% 0.6% 0.7% 

18 Israel 7.5% 5.0% 4.3% 1.6% 0.9% 0.3% 0.3% 0.3% 0.6% 0.5% 

19 Iran 0.1% 0.3% 0.3% 0.1% 0.1% 0.3% 0.4% 0.6% 0.2% 0.3% 

Pakistan 0.3% 0.6% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1% 0.5% 0.1% 0.5% 0.3% 0.3% 

Other 3.5% 3.5% 4.0% 3.0% 2.7% 4.0% 3.7% 2.9% 2.6% 2.6% 

Totals 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 

All other countries in Asia/Pacific & Middle East organised less than 5 meetings in 2007.


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Rank City 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

1 Singapore 45 48 63 56 67 78 106 131 133 120 

2 Beijing 29 32 45 41 52 29 100 90 81 87 

3 Hong Kong 32 46 53 61 43 41 89 98 66 72 

4 Bangkok 17 29 32 29 51 64 70 65 63 70 

Seoul 44 50 29 68 69 50 82 79 90 70 

6 Taipei 30 35 29 39 43 31 49 53 39 67 

7 Kuala Lumpur 22 30 19 34 49 39 57 45 70 66 

8 Sydney, NSW 36 53 61 55 55 44 42 55 55 65 

9 Tokyo 32 42 31 42 33 37 35 57 42 47 

10 Shanghai 7 8 9 17 32 14 45 46 43 45 

11 Melbourne, VIC 30 35 36 34 30 40 37 53 53 36 

12 Kyoto 20 10 21 23 31 25 23 20 25 31 

13 New Delhi 15 16 6 10 23 19 22 29 24 26 

14 Brisbane, QLD 14 17 18 25 14 15 35 14 22 23 

Perth, WA 8 8 15 9 14 10 15 13 18 23 

16 Bali 7 11 10 15 12 11 11 18 11 18 

Hanoi 0 6 1 10 5 12 16 17 13 18 

Cairns, QLD 3 3 12 7 13 9 14 16 14 18 

19 Jeju 3 4 6 9 11 9 22 17 14 17 

20 Yokohama 10 10 14 9 14 9 18 15 19 15 

21 Busan 0 0 4 7 8 13 9 8 23 14 

Dubai 2 4 3 0 2 6 11 11 12 14 

Manila 23 19 30 28 17 22 16 24 25 14 

24 Mumbai 3 5 3 6 4 6 12 12 9 12 

Osaka 7 12 10 15 22 14 14 8 12 12 

26 Macao 3 6 1 1 4 4 2 6 12 11 

Sendai 5 5 4 7 4 5 5 4 4 11 

Adelaide, S.A. 14 7 13 15 14 11 17 8 19 11 

Auckland 8 9 7 15 5 8 12 14 14 11 

30 Fukuoka 6 6 5 6 8 7 10 5 7 10 

31 Bangalore 3 4 2 8 6 10 6 7 10 9 

Kobe 9 5 4 7 6 7 7 7 11 9 

Pattaya 3 4 4 1 3 4 5 7 7 9 

Gold Coast, Qld. 3 1 10 1 7 3 4 8 3 9 

35 Chennai 1 5 2 5 2 3 2 5 4 8 

Colombo 2 2 3 3 3 5 7 9 7 8 

Ho Chi Minh City 0 1 2 2 3 4 3 7 6 8 

Hyderabad 0 1 2 0 1 2 3 4 2 8 

Jakarta 5 3 1 3 3 6 8 11 10 8 

Kaohsiung 4 2 3 1 5 3 5 3 12 8 

Nagoya 8 7 9 13 12 9 6 10 8 8 

Penang 5 3 5 8 1 6 9 2 6 8 

Christchurch 5 1 3 10 6 10 10 3 6 8 


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Rank City 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

44 Chiang Mai 8 4 13 4 7 14 12 9 7 7 

Tsukuba 6 6 8 10 8 9 5 8 4 7 

Xiamen, Fj 0 1 1 0 4 1 2 0 1 7 

47 Cebu City 2 3 2 1 4 8 4 1 7 6 

Daejeon 3 2 1 2 3 3 4 1 1 6 

Kita-Kyushu 4 0 0 3 2 2 4 0 0 6 

Nara 3 4 1 5 8 8 3 8 4 6 

51 Abu Dhabi 1 1 3 0 0 0 2 3 5 5 

Chengdu, Sc 0 1 2 0 1 1 3 1 6 5 

Hiroshima 3 1 3 3 3 0 1 1 1 5 

Kumamoto 0 2 2 2 1 0 0 0 3 5 

Nanjing 1 2 3 1 1 3 7 3 1 5 

Teheran 1 3 3 1 0 3 5 6 2 5 

Xi'an (Sian) 0 2 4 2 3 1 5 2 6 5 

Other 241 222 260 201 229 257 262 279 270 247 

Totals 796 859 946 990 1,081 1,064 1,390 1,436 1,442 1,489 

All other cities in Asia/Pacific & Middle East organised less than 5 meetings in 2007.


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Year 


1998 727 

1999 658 

2000 758 

2001 670 

2002 739 

2003 662 

2004 648 

2005 546 

2006 671 

2007 590 


Graph 9. Average number of participants per meeting in Asia/Pacific & Middle East per year 





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Category 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

From 50 to 149 49 52 48 82 98 99 119 187 116 147 

From 150 to 249 75 84 81 71 101 90 135 167 136 163 

From 250 to 499 136 131 124 147 154 127 219 200 199 230 

From 500 to 999 105 111 107 111 104 94 154 145 136 156 

From 1000 to 1999 52 47 68 59 60 54 71 72 68 82 

From 2000 to 2999 13 14 14 15 14 16 22 12 11 22 

From 3000 to 4999 6 7 9 13 13 7 9 13 15 13 

From 5000 to 10000 4 4 7 4 6 6 4 4 10 7 

10000 and up 2 1 3 1 3 3 4 3 4 1 

Totals 442 451 461 503 553 496 737 803 695 821 


Category 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

From 50 to 149 11.1% 11.5% 10.4% 16.3% 17.7% 20.0% 16.1% 23.3% 16.7% 17.9% 

From 150 to 249 17.0% 18.6% 17.6% 14.1% 18.3% 18.1% 18.3% 20.8% 19.6% 19.9% 

From 250 to 499 30.8% 29.0% 26.9% 29.2% 27.8% 25.6% 29.7% 24.9% 28.6% 28.0% 

From 500 to 999 23.8% 24.6% 23.2% 22.1% 18.8% 19.0% 20.9% 18.1% 19.6% 19.0% 

From 1000 to 1999 11.8% 10.4% 14.8% 11.7% 10.8% 10.9% 9.6% 9.0% 9.8% 10.0% 

From 2000 to 2999 2.9% 3.1% 3.0% 3.0% 2.5% 3.2% 3.0% 1.5% 1.6% 2.7% 

From 3000 to 4999 1.4% 1.6% 2.0% 2.6% 2.4% 1.4% 1.2% 1.6% 2.2% 1.6% 

From 5000 to 10000 0.9% 0.9% 1.5% 0.8% 1.1% 1.2% 0.5% 0.5% 1.4% 0.9% 

10000 and up 0.5% 0.2% 0.7% 0.2% 0.5% 0.6% 0.5% 0.4% 0.6% 0.1% 

Totals 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 





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1998 4.53 

1999 4.46 

2000 4.52 

2001 4.23 

2002 4.25 

2003 4.20 

2004 4.17 

2005 4.04 

2006 4.07 

2007 3.98 


Graph 10. Average length per meeting in Asia/Pacific & Middle East per year 



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University 36 30 35 52 39 35 52 55 82 130 

Other Venues 30 41 26 29 35 30 19 17 33 55 

Totals 312 347 380 436 426 369 508 554 718 953 





University 11.5% 8.6% 9.2% 11.9% 9.2% 9.5% 10.2% 9.9% 11.4% 13.6% 

Other Venues 9.6% 11.8% 6.8% 6.7% 8.2% 8.1% 3.7% 3.1% 4.6% 5.8% 

Totals 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 

Graph 11. Congress venues used for meetings in Asia/Pacific & Middle East per year 



8. Asia/Pacific & Middle Eastern 

countries included in this report 

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Armenia 

Australia 

Azerbaijan 

Bahrain 

Bangladesh 

Bhutan 

Brunei Darussalam 

Cambodia 

China-P.R. 

Chinese Taipei 

Cook Islands 

Fiji 

French Polynesia 

Guam 

Hong Kong, China-P.R. 

India 

Indonesia 

Iran 

Israel 

Japan 

Jordan 

Kazakhstan 

Kiribati 

Kuwait 

Laos 

Lebanon 

Macao, China-P.R. 

Malaysia 

Maldives 

Marshall Islands 

Micronesia, Fed.States of 

Mongolia 

Myanmar 

Nepal 

New Caledonia 

New Zealand 

Niue 

Oman 

Pakistan 

Palau 

Papua New Guinea 

Philippines 

Qatar 

Republic of Korea 

Reunion 

Samoa 

Saudi Arabia 

Seychelles 

Singapore 

Solomon Islands 

Sri Lanka 

Syrian Arab Republic 

Tahiti 

Thailand 

Tonga 

Turkmenistan 

United Arab Emirates 

Uzbekistan 

Vanuatu 

Vietnam 


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Europe 

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The International Association Meetings Market 1998-2007 - Europe 

Number of meetings per year in Europe 


1998 2,465 58.1% 

1999 2,477 56.9% 

2000 2,796 56.7% 

2001 2,817 56.9% 

2002 3,254 57.8% 

2003 3,381 58.5% 

2004 3,795 57.0% 

2005 3,854 56.6% 

2006 3,840 56.7% 

2007 3,719 55.7% 

Rotation areas of meetings organised in Europe 


Rotation Area 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

Europe 1164 1234 1351 1420 1627 1756 1948 1991 2061 1967 


Scandinavia 94 90 108 103 117 114 142 133 113 116 


German Speaking Countries 4 8 10 10 12 20 21 23 21 20 

Mediterranean 14 11 12 15 13 15 19 19 15 18 

Ibero-America 20 8 18 10 22 15 22 14 19 12 

Baltic Cntrs/Scandinavia 6 6 6 11 14 13 11 11 11 11 

Totals 2,465 2,477 2,796 2,817 3,254 3,381 3,795 3,854 3,840 3,719 


Rotation Area 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

Europe 47.2% 49.8% 48.3% 50.4% 50.0% 51.9% 51.3% 51.7% 53.7% 52.9% 


Scandinavia 3.8% 3.6% 3.9% 3.7% 3.6% 3.4% 3.7% 3.5% 2.9% 3.1% 


German Speaking Countries 0.2% 0.3% 0.4% 0.4% 0.4% 0.6% 0.6% 0.6% 0.5% 0.5% 

Mediterranean 0.6% 0.4% 0.4% 0.5% 0.4% 0.4% 0.5% 0.5% 0.4% 0.5% 

Ibero-America 0.8% 0.3% 0.6% 0.4% 0.7% 0.4% 0.6% 0.4% 0.5% 0.3% 

Baltic Cntrs/Scandinavia 0.2% 0.2% 0.2% 0.4% 0.4% 0.4% 0.3% 0.3% 0.3% 0.3% 

Totals 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 

Only international association meetings taking place in the continent of Europe and of which the 

rotation areas are known by ICCA are included in these figures.


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Rank Country 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

1 Germany 225 272 324 282 306 314 380 368 389 430 

2 Spain 200 195 200 218 298 296 360 319 293 307 

3 United Kingdom 273 267 312 230 284 310 297 345 318 282 

4 France 228 218 283 256 253 263 346 328 316 255 

5 Italy 196 209 231 257 272 306 284 279 257 250 

6 Austria 103 95 99 102 112 152 163 177 222 204 

7 Netherlands 146 152 184 182 160 182 228 229 211 195 

8 Switzerland 90 83 102 106 149 164 155 175 181 175 

9 Portugal 114 55 79 91 110 128 136 131 132 153 

10 Sweden 128 99 130 139 141 146 150 152 149 137 

11 Belgium 101 74 97 86 115 93 118 128 116 124 

12 Finland 98 117 103 117 114 120 120 114 111 121 

13 Greece 66 73 56 82 114 91 113 116 135 117 

14 Hungary 55 64 71 56 91 82 105 116 116 112 

15 Denmark 92 85 85 114 130 102 104 97 102 100 

16 Turkey 26 40 34 51 50 60 74 86 84 95 

17 Norway 62 78 80 71 85 96 94 79 77 93 

18 Poland 32 45 67 78 60 59 91 103 94 89 

19 Ireland 31 40 38 43 51 76 69 81 60 83 

20 Czech Republic 54 68 51 64 73 104 93 96 112 82 

21 Slovenia 25 25 28 22 34 27 45 41 41 45 

22 Russia 18 21 17 27 45 39 36 42 41 41 

23 Croatia 19 12 17 24 30 29 38 29 29 35 

24 Latvia 6 3 6 13 14 10 9 17 46 30 

25 Estonia 5 3 5 5 13 22 21 23 23 23 

26 Romania 3 11 8 17 22 13 20 20 18 21 

27 Lithuania 6 2 4 6 11 10 13 20 21 18 

28 Iceland 10 16 31 12 24 23 23 26 21 16 

29 Bulgaria 5 6 3 4 13 5 16 11 24 15 

Other 48 49 51 62 80 59 94 106 101 71 

Totals 2,465 2,477 2,796 2,817 3,254 3,381 3,795 3,854 3,840 3,719 

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Rank Country 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

1 Germany 9.1% 11.0% 11.6% 10.0% 9.4% 9.3% 10.0% 9.5% 10.1% 11.6% 

2 Spain 8.1% 7.9% 7.2% 7.7% 9.2% 8.8% 9.5% 8.3% 7.6% 8.3% 

3 United Kingdom 11.1% 10.8% 11.2% 8.2% 8.7% 9.2% 7.8% 9.0% 8.3% 7.6% 

4 France 9.2% 8.8% 10.1% 9.1% 7.8% 7.8% 9.1% 8.5% 8.2% 6.9% 

5 Italy 8.0% 8.4% 8.3% 9.1% 8.4% 9.1% 7.5% 7.2% 6.7% 6.7% 

6 Austria 4.2% 3.8% 3.5% 3.6% 3.4% 4.5% 4.3% 4.6% 5.8% 5.5% 

7 Netherlands 5.9% 6.1% 6.6% 6.5% 4.9% 5.4% 6.0% 5.9% 5.5% 5.2% 

8 Switzerland 3.7% 3.4% 3.6% 3.8% 4.6% 4.9% 4.1% 4.5% 4.7% 4.7% 

9 Portugal 4.6% 2.2% 2.8% 3.2% 3.4% 3.8% 3.6% 3.4% 3.4% 4.1% 

10 Sweden 5.2% 4.0% 4.6% 4.9% 4.3% 4.3% 4.0% 3.9% 3.9% 3.7% 

11 Belgium 4.1% 3.0% 3.5% 3.1% 3.5% 2.8% 3.1% 3.3% 3.0% 3.3% 

12 Finland 4.0% 4.7% 3.7% 4.2% 3.5% 3.5% 3.2% 3.0% 2.9% 3.3% 

13 Greece 2.7% 2.9% 2.0% 2.9% 3.5% 2.7% 3.0% 3.0% 3.5% 3.1% 

14 Hungary 2.2% 2.6% 2.5% 2.0% 2.8% 2.4% 2.8% 3.0% 3.0% 3.0% 

15 Denmark 3.7% 3.4% 3.0% 4.0% 4.0% 3.0% 2.7% 2.5% 2.7% 2.7% 

16 Turkey 1.1% 1.6% 1.2% 1.8% 1.5% 1.8% 1.9% 2.2% 2.2% 2.6% 

17 Norway 2.5% 3.1% 2.9% 2.5% 2.6% 2.8% 2.5% 2.0% 2.0% 2.5% 

18 Poland 1.3% 1.8% 2.4% 2.8% 1.8% 1.7% 2.4% 2.7% 2.4% 2.4% 

19 Ireland 1.3% 1.6% 1.4% 1.5% 1.6% 2.2% 1.8% 2.1% 1.6% 2.2% 

20 Czech Republic 2.2% 2.7% 1.8% 2.3% 2.2% 3.1% 2.5% 2.5% 2.9% 2.2% 

21 Slovenia 1.0% 1.0% 1.0% 0.8% 1.0% 0.8% 1.2% 1.1% 1.1% 1.2% 

22 Russia 0.7% 0.8% 0.6% 1.0% 1.4% 1.2% 0.9% 1.1% 1.1% 1.1% 

23 Croatia 0.8% 0.5% 0.6% 0.9% 0.9% 0.9% 1.0% 0.8% 0.8% 0.9% 

24 Latvia 0.2% 0.1% 0.2% 0.5% 0.4% 0.3% 0.2% 0.4% 1.2% 0.8% 

25 Estonia 0.2% 0.1% 0.2% 0.2% 0.4% 0.7% 0.6% 0.6% 0.6% 0.6% 

26 Romania 0.1% 0.4% 0.3% 0.6% 0.7% 0.4% 0.5% 0.5% 0.5% 0.6% 

27 Lithuania 0.2% 0.1% 0.1% 0.2% 0.3% 0.3% 0.3% 0.5% 0.5% 0.5% 

28 Iceland 0.4% 0.6% 1.1% 0.4% 0.7% 0.7% 0.6% 0.7% 0.5% 0.4% 

29 Bulgaria 0.2% 0.2% 0.1% 0.1% 0.4% 0.1% 0.4% 0.3% 0.6% 0.4% 

Other 1.9% 2.0% 1.8% 2.2% 2.5% 1.7% 2.5% 2.8% 2.6% 1.9% 

Totals 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 

All other countries in Europe organised less than 15 meetings in 2007.


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Rank City 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

1 Vienna 74 65 64 65 75 101 116 136 155 154 

2 Berlin 42 61 70 64 73 96 114 103 107 123 

3 Paris 71 60 107 90 84 91 125 121 148 115 

4 Barcelona 56 55 55 71 101 94 131 127 104 106 

5 Budapest 42 50 53 48 71 67 89 94 95 90 

Lisbon 68 34 43 47 61 72 75 76 72 90 

7 Amsterdam 62 55 63 57 66 59 77 91 82 82 

8 Madrid 68 45 54 50 54 59 66 64 59 77 

9 Copenhagen 64 59 48 74 92 63 75 78 72 74 

10 Prague 41 59 42 54 58 90 81 81 102 72 

11 Stockholm 66 43 61 63 72 65 70 73 66 70 

12 London 56 56 79 59 64 68 71 84 79 69 

13 Brussels 45 36 46 43 52 42 59 67 67 66 

Istanbul 17 23 27 32 33 46 48 55 64 66 

15 Dublin 22 27 23 36 35 56 48 63 43 59 

16 Athens 24 22 20 30 41 41 55 55 64 54 

17 Munich 15 29 31 28 40 22 36 54 33 45 

Oslo 27 31 30 22 37 40 44 26 27 45 

19 Geneva 25 14 27 19 44 40 43 53 47 44 

Rome 38 42 27 53 56 69 67 59 42 44 

21 Helsinki 42 57 50 60 44 66 51 42 46 43 

22 Edinburgh 39 37 46 33 47 44 40 54 48 41 

23 Zurich 11 17 17 15 19 23 18 26 38 40 

24 Warsaw 13 20 21 26 27 22 26 36 30 36 

25 Sevilla 13 17 16 16 28 21 29 23 17 31 

26 Riga 5 3 6 12 11 9 8 15 39 30 

27 Valencia 10 12 11 12 15 22 27 22 21 29 

28 Glasgow 16 20 23 22 22 33 32 35 30 28 

29 Florence 18 27 30 16 30 23 25 22 20 25 

Göteborg 16 17 22 22 24 29 25 27 31 25 

31 Hamburg 20 9 19 7 11 16 15 16 18 23 

Ljubljana 10 11 13 10 16 18 24 17 28 23 

Porto 17 5 16 18 18 15 21 16 20 23 

The Hague 14 14 18 10 14 15 25 15 25 23 

35 Cracow 9 12 22 25 13 16 24 24 25 22 

Turku 11 8 8 6 12 9 15 15 8 22 

37 Thessaloniki 7 7 8 9 11 10 15 15 14 21 

38 Basel 3 6 12 6 16 13 11 16 23 20 

Gent 12 5 8 9 11 11 14 14 17 20 

40 Lyon 12 22 19 17 16 22 24 28 18 19 

Rotterdam 6 10 13 21 10 14 19 21 13 19 

42 Antwerp 10 9 11 7 13 9 14 16 8 18 

43 Moscow 7 8 7 15 22 16 16 24 16 17 

Nice 25 15 21 12 17 14 22 16 20 17 

Uppsala 7 5 9 8 10 11 23 18 20 17 

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Rank City 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

46 Frankfurt am Main 7 6 11 4 6 10 8 18 9 16 

Manchester 13 9 7 8 18 9 17 23 15 16 

Reykjavik 9 14 30 12 23 21 21 24 20 16 

Tallinn 4 2 3 3 9 17 16 18 16 16 

Vilnius 5 0 2 6 7 8 10 17 18 16 

51 Antalya 2 10 2 11 8 5 7 12 9 14 

Bergen 9 12 20 18 20 16 17 19 16 14 

Cologne 12 3 2 6 4 6 6 10 11 14 

Dresden 10 16 14 9 11 15 15 13 19 14 

Espoo 9 11 12 10 8 11 11 10 9 14 

Oxford 13 8 11 7 16 10 9 11 11 14 

Torino 9 8 11 12 11 12 6 19 20 14 

Trondheim 7 7 11 7 12 18 9 10 10 14 

59 Leipzig 1 6 6 9 8 2 9 7 11 13 

Milan 9 17 12 12 9 20 10 18 16 13 

Salzburg 9 3 5 6 9 12 10 8 15 13 

Sofia 1 4 0 3 6 1 9 9 13 13 

St. Petersburg 6 11 7 10 14 18 15 13 17 13 

Tampere 9 7 11 19 16 8 15 12 15 13 

65 Zagreb 11 3 7 6 10 11 11 13 6 12 

66 Berne 4 2 3 7 6 10 13 12 9 11 

Bologna 12 7 19 4 13 7 11 14 14 11 

Dubrovnik 4 6 3 7 14 8 12 7 13 11 

Graz 3 8 10 5 6 16 12 9 12 11 

Lausanne 17 8 8 12 14 13 14 13 15 11 

Monte Carlo 9 6 8 6 10 10 8 7 12 11 

Naples 11 5 11 11 12 9 6 8 12 11 

Venice 15 14 12 19 8 13 25 9 17 11 

74 Bilbao 1 5 5 6 5 9 9 20 8 10 

Bonn 4 9 9 9 5 12 5 16 17 10 

Cardiff 5 3 7 6 9 5 5 10 8 10 

Freiburg 3 3 2 2 3 2 9 0 9 10 

Montpellier 9 3 11 11 11 8 17 8 13 10 

Portoroz 8 4 6 4 10 5 5 9 6 10 

Stuttgart 8 2 7 2 2 9 11 7 9 10 

81 Bucharest 1 7 3 8 10 9 10 12 10 9 

Delft 1 8 9 10 7 8 10 7 6 9 

Groningen 2 1 5 5 3 11 11 8 6 9 

Heidelberg 9 9 10 8 14 7 12 9 9 9 

Liverpool 2 1 0 0 2 4 4 4 12 9 

Maastricht 12 22 18 16 13 11 12 15 17 9 

Marseille 7 8 8 4 4 6 9 15 4 9 

Pisa 5 1 6 3 5 9 7 7 7 9 

Potsdam 3 3 9 5 6 2 7 5 12 9 

Strasbourg 15 8 11 9 9 5 6 9 7 9 

Wroclaw 1 2 2 3 5 2 13 3 6 9


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Rank City 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

92 Belgrade 0 1 1 1 0 1 9 11 7 8 

Bled 6 6 5 3 6 3 7 10 3 8 

Brugge 11 8 7 6 15 6 5 6 5 8 

Catania, Sicily 2 2 5 1 3 4 3 1 4 8 

Innsbruck 5 6 7 6 5 6 10 12 17 8 

97 Aalborg 3 4 10 8 6 2 3 8 2 7 

Brighton, Sussex 9 8 14 6 2 2 7 3 2 7 

Galway 1 2 0 1 3 6 4 3 7 

Genova 5 5 3 4 12 10 13 6 6 7 

Grenoble 6 5 4 7 7 7 12 10 4 7 

Limerick 3 1 5 3 1 5 2 4 9 7 

Lugano,Ti 4 3 3 2 4 10 2 2 1 7 

Luxembourg 6 4 6 5 7 5 10 17 11 7 

NewcastleGateshead 0 5 1 2 1 3 4 9 6 7 

106 Bordeaux 7 4 7 13 6 12 5 7 5 6 

Bratislava 5 9 8 13 15 4 14 8 13 6 

Bremen 3 2 6 5 4 1 1 5 9 6 

Cambridge 13 12 21 11 14 16 22 8 12 6 

Cork 1 5 3 1 5 5 7 6 1 6 

Crete 5 9 4 2 13 11 7 9 2 6 

Davos 3 3 3 3 3 3 1 4 5 6 

Duesseldorf 5 5 5 6 3 7 2 3 7 6 

Faro 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 6 

Kiev 2 2 0 1 1 4 2 3 10 6 

Les Diablerets 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 2 4 6 

Leuven 10 4 9 4 11 8 14 15 10 6 

Lund 5 10 5 10 5 5 6 6 6 6 

Malmö 2 2 7 10 6 6 7 5 7 6 

Nuremberg 1 4 2 7 4 1 5 8 1 6 

Regensburg 0 1 1 2 3 1 5 1 1 6 

Rhodes 8 6 4 11 9 7 10 6 10 6 

San Sebastian 7 4 3 0 3 3 3 0 3 6 

Sorrento 4 4 4 10 7 6 6 6 4 6 

Southampton 4 3 2 1 3 2 2 0 12 6 

Stavanger 4 6 3 5 4 4 6 2 5 6 

Trieste 4 6 3 4 3 5 4 6 1 6 

Other 709 766 820 864 944 979 1024 980 964 768 

Totals 2,465 2,477 2,796 2,817 3,254 3,381 3,795 3,854 3,840 3,719 


All other cities in Europe organised less than 6 meetings in 2007.

72 4. Average number of participants 


Year 


1998 676 

1999 672 

2000 752 

2001 680 

2002 645 

2003 619 

2004 606 

2005 580 

2006 656 

2007 625 

Graph 12. Average number of participants per meeting in Europe per year 





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Category 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

From 50 to 149 212 171 171 195 271 378 430 520 443 528 

From 150 to 249 224 214 200 204 267 322 338 393 379 401 

From 250 to 499 364 321 357 318 414 374 456 472 532 530 

From 500 to 999 227 266 276 257 266 250 303 331 314 299 

From 1000 to 1999 119 97 140 126 121 129 144 148 146 178 

From 2000 to 2999 45 30 45 39 30 26 39 46 48 56 

From 3000 to 4999 24 30 40 26 32 33 43 38 41 39 

From 5000 to 10000 15 10 14 11 16 17 19 27 19 26 

10000 and up 5 4 6 4 6 5 4 5 10 9 

Totals 1,235 1,143 1,249 1,180 1,423 1,534 1,776 1,980 1,932 2,066 


Category 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

From 50 to 149 17.2% 15.0% 13.7% 16.5% 19.0% 24.6% 24.2% 26.3% 22.9% 25.6% 

From 150 to 249 18.1% 18.7% 16.0% 17.3% 18.8% 21.0% 19.0% 19.8% 19.6% 19.4% 

From 250 to 499 29.5% 28.1% 28.6% 26.9% 29.1% 24.4% 25.7% 23.8% 27.5% 25.7% 

From 500 to 999 18.4% 23.3% 22.1% 21.8% 18.7% 16.3% 17.1% 16.7% 16.3% 14.5% 

From 1000 to 1999 9.6% 8.5% 11.2% 10.7% 8.5% 8.4% 8.1% 7.5% 7.6% 8.6% 

From 2000 to 2999 3.6% 2.6% 3.6% 3.3% 2.1% 1.7% 2.2% 2.3% 2.5% 2.7% 

From 3000 to 4999 1.9% 2.6% 3.2% 2.2% 2.2% 2.2% 2.4% 1.9% 2.1% 1.9% 

From 5000 to 10000 1.2% 0.9% 1.1% 0.9% 1.1% 1.1% 1.1% 1.4% 1.0% 1.3% 

10000 and up 0.4% 0.3% 0.5% 0.3% 0.4% 0.3% 0.2% 0.3% 0.5% 0.4% 

Totals 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 






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1998 4.45 

1999 4.31 

2000 5.58 

2001 5.04 

2002 4.94 

2003 3.90 

2004 3.91 

2005 3.84 

2006 3.75 

2007 3.76 

Graph 13. Average length per meeting in Europe per year 




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University 185 204 219 178 192 193 153 205 291 355 

Other Venues 134 109 106 131 138 89 113 130 167 238 

Totals 886 871 969 919 1,016 990 1,012 1,155 1,528 1,800 





University 20.9% 23.4% 22.6% 19.4% 18.9% 19.5% 15.1% 17.7% 19.0% 19.7% 

Other Venues 15.1% 12.5% 10.9% 14.3% 13.6% 9.0% 11.2% 11.3% 10.9% 13.2% 

Totals 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 


Graph 14. Congress venues used for meetings in Europe per year 



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8. European countries included 

in this report 

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Albania 

Andorra 

Austria 

Belarus 

Belgium 

Bosnia-Hercegovina 

Bulgaria 

Croatia 

Cyprus 

Czech Republic 

Denmark 

Estonia 

Faroe Islands 

Finland 

Form.Yugosl.Rep.Macedonia 

France 

France, Metropolitan 

Georgia 

Germany 

Gibraltar 

Greece 

Greenland 

Hungary 

Iceland 

Ireland 

Italy 

Latvia 

Liechtenstein 

Lithuania 

Luxembourg 

Malta 

Moldova-Rep. 

Monaco 

Montenegro 

Netherlands 

Norway 

Poland 

Portugal 

Romania 

Russia 

San Marino 

Serbia 

Slovak Republic 

Slovenia 

Spain 

Sweden 

Switzerland 

Turkey 

Ukraine 

United Kingdom 

Vatican

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North- and Latin America 

await 


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78 1. Number of meetings & rotation areas 

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Number of meetings per year in North- and Latin America 


1998 860 20.2% 

1999 912 21.0% 

2000 1067 21.6% 

2001 1022 20.6% 

2002 1158 20.6% 

2003 1200 20.8% 

2004 1317 19.8% 

2005 1357 19.9% 

2006 1346 19.9% 

2007 1318 19.7% 

Rotation areas of meetings organised in North- and Latin America 


Rotation Area 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 


Latin America 83 108 104 130 123 160 155 209 182 197 

Interamerican 31 40 44 45 53 68 68 69 69 79 


Ibero-America 34 38 46 47 52 52 60 64 72 57 

Latin America/Caribbean 26 26 35 33 29 36 38 43 37 40 

Totals 860 912 1,067 1,022 1,158 1,200 1,317 1,357 1,346 1,318 


Rotation Area 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 


Latin America 9.7% 11.8% 9.7% 12.7% 10.6% 13.3% 11.8% 15.4% 13.5% 14.9% 

Interamerican 3.6% 4.4% 4.1% 4.4% 4.6% 5.7% 5.2% 5.1% 5.1% 6.0% 


Ibero-America 4.0% 4.2% 4.3% 4.6% 4.5% 4.3% 4.6% 4.7% 5.3% 4.3% 

Latin America/Caribbean 3.0% 2.9% 3.3% 3.2% 2.5% 3.0% 2.9% 3.2% 2.7% 3.0% 

Totals 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 

Only international association meetings taking place in the continents of North- and Latin America 

and of which the rotation areas are known by ICCA are included in these figures.


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Rank Country 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

1 U.S.A. 409 446 509 451 537 535 568 569 522 467 

2 Brazil 76 73 114 92 90 106 138 159 212 209 

3 Canada 128 134 157 153 179 154 184 167 178 197 

4 Mexico 54 49 52 61 93 98 113 78 92 100 

5 Argentina 43 42 55 62 45 44 61 75 53 60 

6 Chile 25 36 28 27 38 43 54 67 58 48 

7 Colombia 15 16 15 15 13 17 18 40 24 34 

Uruguay 15 14 19 25 15 18 15 33 33 34 

9 Ecuador 3 7 4 7 10 13 18 13 14 20 

10 Cuba 8 11 18 23 15 33 22 33 26 19 

11 Dominican Republic 3 7 5 7 4 12 13 9 11 18 

Peru 13 15 14 11 23 21 27 24 20 18 

13 Panama 3 10 14 5 8 15 8 14 20 14 

Venezuela 15 12 12 15 15 9 14 11 10 14 

15 Bolivia 3 2 4 8 13 9 2 5 8 11 

Costa Rica 8 4 10 14 13 11 14 10 10 11 

17 Puerto Rico 9 8 8 9 9 8 11 10 9 10 

18 Guatemala 2 4 5 10 8 11 13 6 11 9 

19 Paraguay 4 4 3 4 6 8 1 8 8 5 

Other 24 18 21 23 24 35 23 26 27 20 

Totals 860 912 1,067 1,022 1,158 1,200 1,317 1,357 1,346 1,318 

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Rank Country 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

1 U.S.A. 47.6% 48.9% 47.7% 44.1% 46.4% 44.6% 43.1% 41.9% 38.8% 35.4% 

2 Brazil 8.8% 8.0% 10.7% 9.0% 7.8% 8.8% 10.5% 11.7% 15.8% 15.9% 

3 Canada 14.9% 14.7% 14.7% 15.0% 15.5% 12.8% 14.0% 12.3% 13.2% 14.9% 

4 Mexico 6.3% 5.4% 4.9% 6.0% 8.0% 8.2% 8.6% 5.7% 6.8% 7.6% 

5 Argentina 5.0% 4.6% 5.2% 6.1% 3.9% 3.7% 4.6% 5.5% 3.9% 4.6% 

6 Chile 2.9% 3.9% 2.6% 2.6% 3.3% 3.6% 4.1% 4.9% 4.3% 3.6% 

7 Colombia 1.7% 1.8% 1.4% 1.5% 1.1% 1.4% 1.4% 2.9% 1.8% 2.6% 

Uruguay 1.7% 1.5% 1.8% 2.4% 1.3% 1.5% 1.1% 2.4% 2.5% 2.6% 

9 Ecuador 0.3% 0.8% 0.4% 0.7% 0.9% 1.1% 1.4% 1.0% 1.0% 1.5% 

10 Cuba 0.9% 1.2% 1.7% 2.3% 1.3% 2.8% 1.7% 2.4% 1.9% 1.4% 

11 Dominican Republic 0.3% 0.8% 0.5% 0.7% 0.3% 1.0% 1.0% 0.7% 0.8% 1.4% 

Peru 1.5% 1.6% 1.3% 1.1% 2.0% 1.8% 2.1% 1.8% 1.5% 1.4% 

13 Panama 0.3% 1.1% 1.3% 0.5% 0.7% 1.3% 0.6% 1.0% 1.5% 1.1% 

Venezuela 1.7% 1.3% 1.1% 1.5% 1.3% 0.8% 1.1% 0.8% 0.7% 1.1% 

15 Bolivia 0.3% 0.2% 0.4% 0.8% 1.1% 0.8% 0.2% 0.4% 0.6% 0.8% 

Costa Rica 0.9% 0.4% 0.9% 1.4% 1.1% 0.9% 1.1% 0.7% 0.7% 0.8% 

17 Puerto Rico 1.0% 0.9% 0.7% 0.9% 0.8% 0.7% 0.8% 0.7% 0.7% 0.8% 

18 Guatemala 0.2% 0.4% 0.5% 1.0% 0.7% 0.9% 1.0% 0.4% 0.8% 0.7% 

19 Paraguay 0.5% 0.4% 0.3% 0.4% 0.5% 0.7% 0.1% 0.6% 0.6% 0.4% 

Other 2.8% 2.0% 2.0% 2.3% 2.1% 2.9% 1.7% 1.9% 2.0% 1.5% 

Totals 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 

All other countries in North- and Latin America organised less than 15 meetings in 2007.


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Rank City 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

1 Sao Paulo 28 12 15 9 17 12 23 27 55 61 

2 Vancouver, BC 27 29 24 30 33 22 43 38 54 49 

3 Montreal, QC 24 25 35 32 40 39 44 37 33 48 

4 Buenos Aires 29 29 40 39 29 25 46 51 41 44 

5 Rio de Janeiro 20 27 48 32 31 32 38 43 50 37 

6 Toronto, ON 16 22 25 17 32 19 36 27 27 36 

7 New York City, NY 13 14 20 19 23 22 28 37 25 29 

8 Santiago de Chile 15 26 19 18 27 31 34 46 40 28 

9 Salvador (Bahia) 2 3 5 4 4 13 10 18 17 27 

10 Cancun, Qr. 10 9 11 18 21 18 24 15 14 26 

11 San Diego, Ca 13 11 13 15 23 27 13 21 20 25 

12 Montevideo 10 10 9 17 9 11 10 23 21 22 

Boston, MA 23 21 23 10 29 23 30 27 31 22 

Mexico City 13 13 14 15 20 28 30 24 32 22 

15 Chicago, IL 11 15 27 15 19 20 36 25 23 19 

Washington, DC 28 26 30 28 34 29 31 28 25 19 

17 San Francisco, Ca 22 19 21 25 15 30 19 21 25 18 

18 Havana 8 10 16 18 15 29 20 28 23 16 

19 Orlando, Fl 12 15 11 10 21 21 12 16 16 15 

Seattle, Wa 10 8 10 15 16 18 12 9 21 15 

21 Cartagena 7 10 12 8 8 11 12 19 10 14 

Panama City 1 9 13 5 8 14 8 14 19 14 

Quito 2 5 1 6 5 8 16 9 12 14 

Santo Domingo 3 4 3 7 2 7 9 6 9 14 

25 Bogota 3 1 1 4 3 5 4 9 10 12 

Miami, FL 5 4 8 3 11 13 12 14 10 12 

27 Lima 13 11 9 9 19 15 21 21 16 11 

San Jose 7 3 8 13 9 9 12 8 9 11 

29 Porto Alegre,Rs 1 0 4 5 6 2 11 3 4 10 

Honolulu, HI 4 6 15 13 14 11 13 6 8 10 

Merida 0 2 4 1 6 11 9 10 11 10 

Monterrey 2 3 0 3 3 4 5 2 1 10 

New Orleans, LA 8 3 10 12 15 10 11 14 6 10 

Quebec City 10 10 14 18 13 13 6 12 15 10 

35 Florianopolis,Sc 2 1 2 5 0 7 7 6 7 9 

Guatemala City 0 3 3 6 2 7 7 3 9 9 

37 Punta del Este 5 4 8 7 5 7 4 7 7 8 

Vina del Mar 6 1 2 1 3 5 3 6 2 8 

Ottawa, ONT 11 9 12 12 15 15 18 9 7 8 

San Antonio, Tx 3 9 8 5 3 7 2 3 5 8 


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Rank City 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

41 Cusco 0 0 2 0 2 2 2 3 2 7 

Atlanta, GA 8 11 11 10 10 5 12 6 8 7 

Berkeley, CA 2 4 6 2 5 5 2 2 2 7 

Houston, TX 7 4 5 4 8 2 7 2 4 7 

Las Vegas, NV 10 8 6 9 8 9 12 14 6 7 

Los Angeles, CA 4 9 14 10 8 6 9 11 11 7 

Minneapolis, MN 3 4 5 5 6 4 5 8 10 7 

Philadelphia, Pa 10 9 5 8 9 7 12 15 10 7 

Portland, Or 3 1 4 6 5 6 8 3 7 7 

50 Foz Do Iguacu 0 3 4 1 4 3 8 8 4 6 

Medellin 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 6 

Ouro Preto 1 0 1 1 1 3 1 0 2 6 

San Juan 4 7 5 5 7 7 9 8 6 6 

Santa Cruz 3 1 2 3 9 4 4 4 6 

Baltimore, MD 9 4 7 3 9 6 4 7 3 6 

Banff, AB 4 1 7 5 10 10 10 6 4 6 

Calgary, AB 4 8 6 4 6 5 4 7 6 6 

Puebla 4 3 3 3 5 4 4 0 4 6 

Victoria, BC 4 2 4 4 4 3 1 5 6 6 

60 Campinas,Sao Paulo 2 1 2 2 2 2 1 1 6 5 

Guayaquil 1 1 3 1 3 3 0 2 2 5 

Isla de Margarita 3 2 1 2 8 1 3 1 3 5 

Mar del Plata 2 1 3 8 4 4 4 7 0 5 

Austin, TX 4 5 3 2 3 1 2 3 5 5 

Guadalajara 3 1 4 3 8 5 11 6 5 5 

Halifax, NS 5 3 7 1 3 6 3 3 3 5 

Pittsburgh, Pa 7 6 7 2 7 7 4 5 7 5 

All other cities in North- and Latin America organised less than 5 meetings in 2007.


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Year 


1998 1158 

1999 1021 

2000 1288 

2001 950 

2002 910 

2003 852 

2004 912 

2005 968 

2006 798 

2007 661 


Graph 15. Average number of participants per meeting in North- and Latin America per year 





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Category 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

From 50 to 149 33 24 33 40 41 51 60 79 92 101 

From 150 to 249 26 42 46 51 33 39 56 64 90 81 

From 250 to 499 77 66 82 71 69 84 75 115 133 166 

From 500 to 999 77 73 74 74 72 83 89 92 109 109 

From 1000 to 1999 45 48 52 48 63 50 71 67 71 56 

From 2000 to 2999 11 15 17 15 18 16 23 13 26 18 

From 3000 to 4999 12 10 13 11 10 15 12 14 13 11 

From 5000 to 10000 8 6 13 3 6 4 7 7 8 7 

10000 and up 5 3 6 3 1 1 3 3 4 2 

Totals 294 287 336 316 313 343 396 454 546 551 


Category 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 

From 50 to 149 11.2% 8.4% 9.8% 12.7% 13.1% 14.9% 15.2% 17.4% 16.8% 18.3% 

From 150 to 249 8.8% 14.6% 13.7% 16.1% 10.5% 11.4% 14.1% 14.1% 16.5% 14.7% 

From 250 to 499 26.2% 23.0% 24.4% 22.5% 22.0% 24.5% 18.9% 25.3% 24.4% 30.1% 

From 500 to 999 26.2% 25.4% 22.0% 23.4% 23.0% 24.2% 22.5% 20.3% 20.0% 19.8% 

From 1000 to 1999 15.3% 16.7% 15.5% 15.2% 20.1% 14.6% 17.9% 14.8% 13.0% 10.2% 

From 2000 to 2999 3.7% 5.2% 5.1% 4.7% 5.8% 4.7% 5.8% 2.9% 4.8% 3.3% 

From 3000 to 4999 4.1% 3.5% 3.9% 3.5% 3.2% 4.4% 3.0% 3.1% 2.4% 2.0% 

From 5000 to 10000 2.7% 2.1% 3.9% 0.9% 1.9% 1.2% 1.8% 1.5% 1.5% 1.3% 

10000 and up 1.7% 1.0% 1.8% 0.9% 0.3% 0.3% 0.8% 0.7% 0.7% 0.4% 

Totals 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 





was lacking.


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1998 4.77 

1999 4.64 

2000 4.54 

2001 4.44 

2002 4.37 

2003 4.36 

2004 4.29 

2005 4.27 

2006 4.30 

2007 4.27 


Graph 16. Average length per meeting in North- and Latin America per year 



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University 29 32 31 26 24 32 30 24 43 48 

Other Venues 9 15 22 15 13 10 15 12 9 18 

Totals 207 223 288 267 262 277 285 292 417 455 





University 14.0% 14.3% 10.8% 9.7% 9.2% 11.6% 10.5% 8.2% 10.3% 10.5% 

Other Venues 4.3% 6.7% 7.6% 5.6% 5.0% 3.6% 5.3% 4.1% 2.2% 4.0% 

Totals 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 

Graph 17. Congress venues used for meetings in North- and Latin America per year 



8. North- and Latin American 

countries included in this report 

87 

Anguilla 

Antigua and Barbuda 

Argentina 

Aruba 

Bahamas 

Barbados 

Belize 

Bermuda 

Bolivia 

Brazil 

Canada 

Cayman Islands 

Chile 

Colombia 

Costa Rica 

Cuba 

Dominica 

Dominican Republic 

Ecuador 

El Salvador 

French Guiana 

Grenada 

Guadeloupe 

Guatemala 

Guyana 

Haiti 

Honduras 

Jamaica 

Martinique, W.I. 

Mexico 

Netherlands Antilles 

Nicaragua 

Panama 

Paraguay 

Peru 

Puerto Rico 

Saint Kitts and Nevis 

Saint Lucia 

Saint Vincent, W.I. 

Surinam 

Trinidad & Tobago, W.I. 

U.S.A. 

Uruguay 

Venezuela 

Virgin Islands (U.S.) 


Head Office 

Toren A, De Entree 57, 1101 BH Amsterdam, The Netherlands 

Automated phone menu +31 20 398 1919 Fax +31 20 699 0781 Email icca@icca.nl Website www.iccaworld.com 

Direct phone numbers: 

Events Department +31 20 398 1910 Marketing Department +31 20 398 1963 

Membership Department +31 20 398 1904 Research Department +31 20 398 1915 

ICCA Asia Pacific 

Suite 12.05, Amcorp Tower, Amcorp Trade Centre, 18 Persiaran Barat, 46050 Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia 

Phone +60 3 7955 3343 Fax +60 3 7955 3348 Email asiapacific@icca.nl 

ICCA Latin America 

Plaza Independencia 759 Oficina 763, UY 11100 Montevideo, Uruguay 

Phone +598 2 901 1807 Fax +598 2 901 1807 Email latino@icca.nl 

ICCA North America 

Box 6833, Freehold, New Jersey 07728-6833, U.S.A. 

Phone +1 732 851 6603 Fax +1 732 851 6584 Email n.america@icca.nl

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