Paris and Barcelona top the city charts.
For the first time, ICCA publishes country and city rankings by estimated total number of participants in 2014, as part of its public abstract of the ICCA statistics report, aimed at international associations.
Like in the city ranking by number of meetings, Paris is ranked first, with an estimated total of 130,516 participants visiting 214 association meetings in 2014, closely followed by Barcelona (fifth in the city ranking by number of meetings with 182 meetings in 2014, which means Barcelona hosts relatively large meetings) with 127,469 participants. Third in both the city ranking by number of meetings and by number of participants is Madrid, with 91,452 participants at 200 meetings. London (sixth in the ranking by number of meetings) is fourth in this ranking, and Vienna (second in the ranking by number of meetings) fifth, with respectively 89,969 and 81,902 participants.
Table 1: Top 10 city ranking by estimated total number of participants to all meetings organised in 2014, including number of meetings organised in 2014
RankCity# participants# meetings1Paris130,5162142Barcelona127,4691823Madrid91,4522004London89,9691665Vienna81,9022026Amsterdam79,3561337Berlin76,8801938Istanbul75,8641309Copenhagen57,55110510Singapore57,497142
The top five countries by estimated total number of participants is made up of the same countries as the ranking by number of meetings, but we see some position changes: USA is first in both rankings with 365,338 participants in 2014, Spain is one place higher in this ranking at the cost of Germany, which is third. France and UK switch places compared to the ranking by number of meetings and take fourth and fifth place respectively.
Table 2: Top 10 country ranking by estimated total number of participants to all meetings organised in 2014, including number of meetings organised in 2014
RankCountry# participants# meetings1USA365,3388312Spain289,0395783Germany264,1566594France233,0755335United Kingdom199,1005436Italy175,4004527Australia151,8082608Japan147,2453379Canada133,60926510Netherlands133,105307
From next year onwards, ICCA will publish its rankings by estimated total number of participants at the same time as its rankings by number of meetings.
Download the public abstract of the ICCA Statistics Report 2014.
See also "ICCA 2014 statistics released: Paris remains number one city, USA top country".
