Paris ties with Vienna as top conference city in ICCA rankings

Paris has tied with Vienna as the most popular city for meetings and conventions according to the 2008 ICCA rankings published today.

Both cities hosted 139 international association meetings in 2008, and it marks the first time Vienna has shared the top spot in three years.

Barcelona came third with 136 meetings, an increase of 30 over 2007, followed by Singapore and Berlin in fourth and fifth place.

Budapest, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Seoul and Lisbon also made the top ten, while newcomers in the top 20 include Athens, Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo and Tokyo.

For the fifth year running, the US and Germany are the number one and two countries respectively measured by the number of international meetings organised in 2008.

Spain and France, which took fourth and fifth spots had a considerable increase by amount of meetings they hosted compared to 2007: by 40 to 347 and by 79 to 334 respectively.


ICCA Top 20 city rankings

1. Vienna (139)
    Paris (139)
3. Barcelona (136)
4. Singapore (118)
5. Berlin (100)
6. Budapest (95)
7. Amsterdam (89)
8. Stockholm (87)
9. Seoul (84)
10. Lisbon (83)
11. Copenhagen (82)
12. Sao Paulo (75)
13. Prague (74)
14. Beijing (73)
15. Istanbul (72)
      Athens (72)
      Buenos Aires (72)
18. Bangkok (71)
19. London (68)
Tokyo (68)

ICCA Top 20 country rankings

1. USA (507)
2. Germany (402)
3. Spain (347)
4. France (334)
5. UK (322)
6. Italy (296)
7. Brazil (254)
8. Japan (247)
9. Canada (231)
10. Netherlands (227)
11. China (223)
12. Austria (196)
13. Switzerland (194)
14. Australia (182)
15. Portugal (177)
16. Republic of Korea (169)
17. Sweden (163)
18. Finland (142)
19. Greece (123)
20. Belgium (122)