Brussels. The Union of International Associations (UIA) has published its international meetings statistics for the year 2010. Thus the USA rank as the top meeting country and Singapore is the leading meeting city. The more detailed rankings are as follows:
Top international meeting countries in 2010
Country / Number of meetings / percentage of all meetings
1. USA 936 8.1%
2. Japan 741 6.5%
3. Singapore 725 6.4%
4. France 686 6.0%
5. Belgium 597 5.2%
6. Spain 572 5.0%
7. Germany 499 4.3%
8. Korea Rep 464 4.0%
9. UK 375 3.3%
10. Austria 362 3.1%
Top international meeting cities in 2010
City / Number of meetings / Percentage of all meetings
1. Singapore 725 6.5%
2. Brussels 486 4.4%
3. Paris 394 3.6%
4. Vienna 257 2.3%
5. Seoul 201 1.8%
6. Barcelona 193 1.7%
7. Tokyo 190 1.7%
8. Geneva 189 1.7%
9. Madrid 175 1.6%
10. Berlin 165 1.5%
The total number of meetings in the UIA database amounts to 359,673. Meetings taken into consideration include those organized and/or sponsored by the international organizations which appear in the Yearbook of International Organizations and in the International Congress Calendar, i.e.: the sittings of their principal organs, congresses, conventions, symposia, regional sessions grouping several countries, as well as some national meetings with international participation organized by national branches of international associations. Not included are purely national meetings as well as those of an exclusively religious, didactic, political, commercial, or sporting nature, and corporate and incentive meetings, the survey of these specific markets not being within the scope of activities of the UIA.
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 international organizations which appear in the Yearbook of International Organizations and in the International Congress Calendar, i.e.: the sittings of their principal organs, congresses, conventions, symposia, regional sessions grouping several countries, as well as some national meetings with international participation organized by national branches of international associations.
