Discount. On 15 September UIA’s “International Meetings Statistics – Annual Report for 2011” will be available. For an order before 15 September UIA grants a 45% discount (30% on Print) on the regular price.

The Annual Report shows the geographic distribution of international meetings and the top countries and cities in 2011. It also includes a review of meetings held in the past five years and ten years, and a long-term review covering 150 years, plus a preview of the future top countries and cities where meetings are already planned up to 2025 – valuable information to support the planning of coming business.

This comprehensive 74-page report covers 333,329 meetings. 317,440 of these took place prior to 2011, 10,743 took place in 2011, and 5,545 are scheduled to take place after 2011. 255 countries and 11,261 cities are represented, including the 183 countries and 1,406 cities in which international association meetings were held in 2011.

For the past 63 years, the Union of International Associations has undertaken statistical studies on international meetings. The statistics are based on information systematically collected by the UIA Congress Department and selected according to strict criteria maintained over the years, thus enabling meaningful comparison from year to year.

Meetings taken into consideration include those organized and/or sponsored by the 34,000 international organizations which appear in the “Yearbook of International Organizations” and in the “International Congress Calendar”, as well as some national meetings with international participation.

The report is available here: www.uia.be/catalog/120