ICCA Advantage For Press and Meeting Planners
ICCA is probably one of the most important names in the field of international meetings. It is the only association that comprises members who are specialists in handling international events. International meeting planners are known to rely on the ICCA network to find solutions for all their event objectives: venue selection; technical advice; assistance with delegate transportation; full convention planning and other ad hoc services. MICEtalk takes an extract from ICCA’s listing of the advantages of a membership who are your potential advertisers and respected spokespersons in the international meetings industry.
Access to association meeting planners (potential subscribers) through the ICCA Association Database and ICCA Intelligence.
The ICCA Association Database is designed to perfectly suit the marketing information needs of suppliers in the international meeting business. The Association Database Online provides a historical overview of thousands of association meetings, plus current contact addresses. It is a user-friendly tool with easy search capabilities, updated daily, password protected and free to all members. ICCA Intelligence is an online resource and e-newsletter designed to promote your products and services to over 3,500 Association Meeting Planners worldwide.
Profiling of ICCA press members to ICCA member colleagues in the ICCA PR Kit.
The ICCA PR Kit is a listing of the leading media (magazines, websites, e-newsletters) in the international meetings industry which functions as a press list and is available to all ICCA members and potential advertisers.
Exclusive access to the ICCA Congress
Early and exclusive access to the full ICCA Statistics Reports and Destination Comparison Reports.
These figures cover meetings organised by the international associations which take place on a regular basis and which rotate between a minimum of three countries. Each year, the city and country rankings are highly anticipated by the international meetings industry. ICCA produces two statistics reports on the international association meetings market per year. listing of all ICCA members with a description of the destination, their products, services, contact names and addresses. It is available online and also in hard copy format. Only ICCA members can advertise in this Directory.
The ICCA member logo represents good and experienced international meeting suppliers.
As an ICCA member, you can use the ICCA member logo in all your marketing material, like advertisements, websites, stand displays, etc. .
Promotion of ICCA members via ICCA stand at tradeshows.
ICCA has a stand at most of the international meetings and industry-related tradeshows worldwide, via which it promotes ICCA members.
Who can be a Member?
ICCA membership is open to suppliers who provide any kind of service to the meetings industry. ICCA membership is a company membership and not an individual membership, however, no consortia can be accepted; it has to be a single entity.
In order to apply for membership, the organisation needs to market itself in English language to the meetings industry, meaning it needs to have a website in English detailing the various services the company provides for meetings.
All companies applying for membership need to prove they have experience in organising international association events through a track record. This track record has to meet the following criteria:
between three countries
are considered Besides the above criteria, each sector of membership (there are five different sectors depending on the branch of the industry the company is in and they are: Destination Marketing, Meetings Management, Meetings Support, Transport, Venues) has a specific application form with sector specific criteria.
Each organisation needs to complete the application which is checked and then sent to the ICCA Board of Directors for approval.