ICCA’s GlobeWatch Country & City Rankings 2024 analyses 11,000+ international association meetings, showing Europe leading in volume while Asia-Pacific and North America follow. Vienna tops city rankings; the United States ranks first among countries. Medical sciences, technology and science dominate sectors. Most meetings are mid-sized (150–999 attendees). The report highlights USD 11.6 billion immediate impact, rising delegate spend, and urges destinations to prioritise legacy, sustainability and strategic, impact-driven meeting attraction.
ICCA’s research team reviewed all the meetings submitted by our members, resulting in a report that includes more than 10,000 meetings that took place in calendar year 2023.
Throughout 2016, ICCA captured 12,212 rotating international association meetings taking place which is a clear all-time record for ICCA's annual snapshot of immediate past year's meetings data, and 136 additional meetings compared to 2015.
In another successful year for the international association meetings industry, ICCA captured a record
number of 12,558 rotating international association meetings taking place in 2017, with 346 additional
meetings taking place compared to 2016.
