ICCA’s 2019 statistics captured 13,254 rotating association meetings. Year and year, ICCA has been a promising consistent growth pattern in the aasociation meetings market. The ICCA Association Database now includes 21,000 regularly occuring meeting series, 216,000 meeting editions and 12,000 international associations. In the number one spot in the ranking by number of association meetings in 2019, Paris is the second year in a row, followed by Lisbon. Regular contenders of the top 5, Berlin (3rd), Barcelona (4th) and Madrid (5th), have made it once again. Prague ranked 9th places with 138 meetings. Impressive newcomers to the Top 50 by number of meetings are Valencia and Istanbul. Titleholder for the last two decades, the USA, remains in the top country spot. Second place went to Germany, France moves up to take third position from Spain. Similar rank swapping of one position takes place between China-P.R. and Japan, Portugal and Canada, Australia and Republica of Korea, and Belgium and Sweden.
