Kigali preferred city for hosting global events in Africa

Rwanda’s capital, Kigali, remains the second preferred city for hosting global events in Africa, as ranked by the International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA), the global meetings industry network.

The 2022 ranking comes at a time when the global organization observed that approximately 85 percent of meetings were held in-person, after halting the survey for two years due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The ICCA represents the world’s leading suppliers in handling, transporting, and accommodating international meetings and events. Kigali ranked as the second most preferred destination for meetings in Africa after Cape Town, in South Africa. The organization counted 21 in-person meetings hosted in the city in 2022.

This shows the efforts embarked on by the government to market the country as a Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions (MICE) destination are paying off.

While on the recovery journey from the pandemic, as a service-based economy with tourism industry being the first largest income earner of the country, it has hosted thousands of people attending one conference after another.

By Alice Kagina

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