For the past 61 years, the Union of International Associations has undertaken, for the benefit of its members, statistical studies on the preceding year’s international meetings.
As in previous years, the report is also available for sale to the public following a period of three months’ exclusive use by UIA Associate Members.
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.
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 full report, based on 11,929 meetings in 2009, will be available from September 15th 2010 on www.uia.be/stats
Top international meeting countries in 2009
Top international meeting cities in 2009
