First edition · 49 chambers · collected 2026-08-15

The Asia-Pacific Chamber Technology Benchmark

What bilateral chambers of commerce in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore actually run their websites and membership on, measured from the outside, chamber by chamber, with the evidence for every attribution published.

38%

run Glue Up, the only association platform found in the whole sample

62%

run a general website with no association system detected

10%

publish in more than one language

8%

of those without a platform can take payment on their own site

What they run on

Platform attributed only where a chamber links to its own hosted tenant, or its own markup identifies the system. n = 42.

• Glue Up16 · 38%
• Custom/undetected13 · 31%
• WordPress8 · 19%
• Wix3 · 7%
• Squarespace2 · 5%

Glue Up is the only purpose-built association platform with meaningful share here. No MemberClicks, GrowthZone, WildApricot, Novi AMS or Join It tenant appeared on any of the 42 sites, a striking absence given those vendors’ size in North America. The APAC bilateral-chamber market is effectively Glue Up versus a website.

The multilingual gap

Only 4 of 42 chambers publish in more than one language. These are organisations whose entire purpose is connecting two language communities, operating in Taipei, Hong Kong and Singapore.

The four that do are the French chamber in Singapore, both Japanese chambers, and the Italian chamber in Taipei. Every Anglophone chamber in the sample, American, British, Australian, Canadian, Irish, New Zealand, publishes in English only, including those operating in Chinese-language markets.

Taiwan is the least penetrated market: 1 Glue Up customer in 9 chambers, against 7 of 16 in Hong Kong and 8 of 17 in Singapore.

Attracting the visitor, then losing them

Of the 26 chambers not running a dedicated membership platform, 2 can take a payment on their own site, while 92% publish a member directory. The directory is the asset most likely to attract a search. There is then nowhere for the visitor it attracts to join.

Across the whole sample, 43% emit structured data an AI engine can read, 88% publish a sitemap, and 95% are mobile-ready.

The full dataset

Every analysable chamber, with the basis for its platform attribution.

Methodology