The International Congress & Convention Association in Amsterdam has released its 2008 association meetings statistics, placing Germany once again at the top of the list for association meetings outside the United States. And Berlin remains the most popular meeting city in Germany.

ICCA rankings cover meetings organized by international associations that take place on a regular basis and rotate between a minimum of three countries. For 2008, ICCA researchers identified 7,475 events, an increase of nearly 800 events over 2007. As has been the case since 2004, the United States and Germany hosted the greatest number of association meetings (507 and 402 respectively). In the third and fourth positions are Spain, with 347 meetings, and France, with 334 meetings. In fifth place is the United Kingdom with 322 meetings.

The top five cities for association meetings were: Paris; Vienna; Barcelona, Spain; Singapore; and Berlin. View the full report at the ICCA Web site.