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ICCA Names Top 20 Association Meeting Cities

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Top Meeting Countries. On the other hand, ICCA’s top 10 meeting countries did not change much. With 934 meetings in 2016, the United States once again ranked first. It has far and away the world’s highest number of international association meetings; second-place Germany had 689 meetings in 2016.

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Denzil Rankine: ‘We Have an Extraordinary Journey in This Industry’

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Denzil Rankine, founder and executive chairman of AMR International and coauthor of Reinventing Live: The Always-on Future of Events, on the monetization of digital events: “In theory, the economics are very positive for online only, but achieving them is really tough. That’s because everyone came into this unprepared.”