In India, many conferences are linked to these publishers. Many scholars are attending the conferences so that organizing committee gets more profits. Publishers like IRAJ, SARC, ASAR, ITR, ICIMPACT . They organize around 30 international conferences in a hotel every year (not in a institute/college) and publish the articles from research scholars.
Link: http://www.allconferencealerts.com/conference.php?ccid=11
This is happening in india (our country) , Title like “International conference/journal …..” attracts more people and Assistant professors to get promotions requires at least to publish in Non-referred journals, force students to publish in these journals and international conferences. which are mostly predatory journals.—- reason is to get good academic performance indicators (API’s) —
(Link: http://www.ugc.ac.in/pdfnews/8539300_English.pdf ). Page 12 tells the reason behind this. People requires journals with ISSN /ISBN number to get the points.
Many of the Institutes organizing international conferences are linked to the predatory journals. Motive is to attract people.
Although India has good researchers and institutes they are no governing bodies to take care of this issues.
