Meeting tourism is a key segment. And it was the first tourist product that began to work with professionalism and framed in a state policy. This growth, which was reflected in the ICCA world ranking, is the result of the joint work of the public and private sectors, "said the Minister of Tourism of the Nation, Gustavo Santos, who stressed that the future of the segment is promising, After listing a long list of international events to be held in Argentina in the coming years.

Another of the positive results that registered the ICCA ranking was the consolidation of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires in the vanguard of the whole American continent. For the eighth consecutive time, the Argentine capital surpassed other great cities, like New York, Mexico, San Pablo, Hong Kong, Rome and Tokyo.

 In addition to Buenos Aires, 32 Argentine cities hosted international congresses: Córdoba, Rosario, Mendoza, Salta, La Plata, Mar del Plata, San Miguel de Tucumán, Santa Fe, Puerto Iguazú, Posadas, San Carlos de Bariloche, Puerto Madryn, Pilar, Corrientes, San Salvador de Jujuy, Santiago del Estero, Tigre, Santa Rosa, Villa María, Campana, El Calafate, Concordia, Governor Virasoro, Los Polvorines, Resistencia, Sáenz Peña, San Isidro, San Martin, San Rafael, Tandil and Vicente López and Luján.

 In the presentation of the 2016 results of the Economic Observatory of Meetings Tourism, they accompanied Minister Santos, the governor of the province of Salta, Juan Manuel Urtubey; The president of the Federal Council of Tourism, Mariano Ovejero; The dean of the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires, César Albornoz; The president of the Argentine Association of Organizers and Suppliers of Exhibitions, Congresses and Events, Enrique Pepino. The technical presentation was in charge of Pablo Singerman and Camilo Makón.