According to the International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA), U.S.A. and Germany ranks first and second respectively for the highest number of international meetings organised in 2010. Spain is at the third place. The United Kingdom and France both climb one place to respectively fourth and fifth at the cost of Italy, which now ranks sixth. Japan(seventh) and China(eighth) both also climb one place and Brazil drops two places and is now ninth. Switzerland is a newcomer in the top 10.
The top 5 cities are the same as in the 2009 ranking: Vienna, Barcelona, Paris, Berlin and Singapore. Madrid (jumps from 13 to 6), Istanbul (from 17 to 7), Sydney (from 27 to 10) and Taipei (from 25 to 11) have made significant improvement in rankings. Copenhagen and Stockholm dropped out of the top 10 and Bangkok dropped out of the top 20.
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