ICCA’s annual statistics for the year 2014 on the number of rotating international association meetings hosted by countries and cities were released recently indicate overall stability in the MICE business. Hyderabad has emerged as one of the leading metros in India for MICE destinations, ranking only behind Delhi, and is on the fast track to becoming India’s Convention Capital.
Paris, France retained its top city ranking alongside USA winning the top country ranking in the latest International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA) annual ratings. In the city rankings, Vienna swapped places with Madrid, moving up from three to two, and Berlin and Barcelona swapped places from four and five respectively.
India holds the 35th position in the rankings worldwide and achieved ninth position in the Asia Pacific region, seeing 116 global business events in 2014. The major cities which hosted the events were Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, Kolkata, Goa, Chandigarh, Jaipur and Kerala.
Hyderabad hosted 18 prestigious meetings in the year 2014. The significant contribution of Hyderabad International Convention Center is highlighted by the fact that 13 of these 18 meetings were hosted here. 2015 is poised to be a strong year for Hyderabad International Convention Centre (HICC), with more events than ever before, including the 19th Indian Plumbing Conference, 29th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium, FIMPART 2015, National Conference on Periodontics, Building Simulation 2015, 50th Indian Orthodontics Conference, 2015, International Union of Crystallography and many more.
