As part of its 2017 Statistics Report on the international association meetings market, ICCA has published its country and city rankings by estimated total number of participants. The U.S.A. and Barcelona are the top country and top city in 2017 respectively: they both held the most meetings and hosted the most participants.
The top ten cities for both the total number of meetings and estimated total number of participants in 2017 remains the same, with the exception of Amsterdam. Whilst the Dutch capital fell to 16th place in 2017 for total number of meetings held, the city places in ninth with 75,578 total estimated participants in 2017. This indicates Amsterdam held less meetings in 2017, but hosted larger ones in comparison to other destinations.
Whilst regular top ten placeholders Vienna and Paris are in joint second place in the 2017 city rankings by number of meetings, Paris drops to third place when it comes to number of participants, hosting 111,725 in 2017 compared to Vienna’s 113,891.
Rank City # Participants
1 Barcelona 148,624
2 Vienna 113,891
3 Paris 111,725
4 Madrid 110,438
5 Berlin 97,549
6 Singapore 83,762
7 London 78,811
8 Lisbon 76,549
9 Amsterdam 75,578
10 Prague 66,790
The U.S.A. continues to dominate the country rankings, holding first place in the country rankings by both number of meetings and estimated total number of participants in 2017. Spain, Germany and the United Kingdom place in the top five by number of participants for another year.
Rank Country # Participants
1 U.S.A. 424,010
2 Spain 327,996
3 Germany 246,045
4 France 211,129
5 UK 192,544
6 Italy 172,274
7 Canada 168,223
8 Austria 139,187
9 Netherlands 134,510
10 Japan 133,025
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