SIZE DOES MATTER

COMPARISON WITH THE REGION

The Turkish congress tiger is relentlessly growling and overcoming everything set in front of it. Professionalism and entrepreneurship when they are competing for international events are not lacking and they could be setting an example to other convention bureaus. Congress Bazaar of Istanbul offers everything that a meetings organizer needs, in addition to 7 convention centers, 3 fairgrounds and almost 100.000 hotel rooms, and the excellently organized Convention Bureau of Instanbul. The quality of life in Istanbul is improving as well as the general infrastructure; Turkish airlines has become the fourth-largest airline in the world.

MTLG INDEX / 2019 EDITION

DESTINATION CAPACITY

The number of 4* and 5* category hotel rooms: 106,000
The number of 4* and 5* category hotels: 217
Banquet hall maximum capacity: 3,000
The largest hall in the city (in m2): 8,400 m2
Destination population: 14,804,116
Maximum hall capacity in theatre style: 3,500

Istanbul Convention Bureau

DESTINATION INDICATORS 2019

ICCA Index – worldwide ranking – numbers of meetings84 / 3.97
ACI Airport Connectivity Index12,314 / 5.00
Numbeo Quality of Life Index112,35 / 2.26
Numbeo Safety Index52,90 / 2.86

MTLG CATEGORY

XL  MEETING DESTINATION

Destinations that can host more than 2000 attendees.

OVERALL PERFORMANCE

ISTANBUL INDIVIDUAL GRADES 2019
Natural and cultural factors:4.73
General and transport infrastructure:4.58
Tourist infrastructure:4.97
Meeting infrastructure:4.97
Subjective grade:4.69
Marketing Buzz:4.55
ICCA index:3.97
Numbeo quality of life Index:2.26
Numbeo Safety Index:2.86
ACI Airport Connectivity Index5.00
DESTINATION MARK:4.24

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A long-time meetings industry addict, Gorazd is the Founder and owner of marketing and event agency Toleranca Marketing. He has many years of experience in planning, preparing and carrying out large international meetings and exhibitions. As the founder of the "Power to the Meetings" methodology, he still firmly believes in the power of live events and human to human communication. He is also the author of numerous articles and editor-in-chief of the meetings industry magazine Kongres Magazine.