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m+a and UFI, the Global Association of the Exhibition Industry, report on the latest news from the exhibition community.
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Outdoor: new partnership
Outdoor is consolidating its position in Friedrichshafen. A new contract with the sector association European Outdoor Group (EOG) will ensure that the city will remain the annual meeting place of the global outdoor sector even beyond 2013. The largest European outdoor fair has taken place in Friedrichshafen since 1994. The new partnership was signed and sealed in the run-up to the 19th edition of the fair, which this year takes place from July 12 to 15.
Back to the Libyan market
Organiser Montgomery has been the first to succeed in bringing overseas companies back to the Libyan market after the revolution. The fourth editions of two of its major international exhibitions addressing the country’s infrastructure and oil and gas sectors, Infrastructure Libya 2012 and Oil & Gas Libya 2012, attracted 4,687 registered attendees during the four days of the event, which Read now
Bauma 2013: new partner country
At Conbuild Mining Indonesia, Jakarta, the Republic of Indonesia, Messe München, and the German Engineering Federation (VDMA) signed a memorandum of understanding, making Indonesia the official partner country of Bauma 2013 from April 15 to 21 in Munich. It is an opportunity for the country to make new contacts to expand the infrastructure at Bauma, the world’s largest platform. In 2011, the building industry of the country was able to grow 7%. It is the most dynamic sector of Indonesian industry.Investing more in fairs
Hans Joachim Boekstegers is confident: “The German trade fair industry has made a full recovery.” This is reflected in the expectations of the sector for the coming year. For 2012, he forecasts a slight increase in exhibitor and visitor figures in the range of 2%. “But stand floor areas will hardly grow”, the chairman of the German Trade Fair Industry (Auma) is convinced. Although domestic participation is likely to fall, foreign exhibitors are still very much interested in the German market, and by extension in German fairs, due to the relatively healthy state of the German economy, he forecasts, drawing on the results of the Auma Trade Fair Trends, a representative survey of German companies by TNS Emnid.According to that survey, which the association presented in December 2011, a large number of German companies plan to increase their trade fair budgets for 2012/2013 despite growing uncertainty about how the economy will develop. Statistics show that 30% of exhibiting companies aim to spend more on exhibitions, 55% just as much, while 15% intend to reduce their budget...read more!
Car parking during a fair
Viparis is extending its exhibitor service to incorporate the electronic parking ticket. On Epex, the e-commerce page of the Parisian trade fair organiser established in 2011, e-parking services can be ordered for the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles site. This is how it is done: Exhibitors order and pay online for their parking spaces and then print out or download pdfs onto a smartphone with valid barcodes. These are exchanged for a magnetic stripe card at the trade fair's parking ticket office, which is valid for the duration of the fair.
Save the date: February 2013!
In 2013 Ambiente will take place from February 15 to 19 in Frankfurt. Normally it is held on the second weekend in February, but owing to the Chinese New Year Festival it moves to the third next year. ch
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