- FITUR to Hold its 36th Edition.
IFEMA is going to hold the 36th edition of the International Travel Show, FITUR 2016, on January 20 – 24 at FERIA DE MADRID. This event will gather the most complete exhibit of offers and destinations of companies, organisms and institutions from 165 countries, thus standing out as the largest business platform of the world travel industry.
FITUR will be zeroing in on the different spaces it has developed, specifically, FITUR SHOPPING and FITUR HEALTH, which were successfully introduced during the previous edition and stand for two sectors with tremendous growth potential.
The list of usual segments comprises FITUR KNOW HOW & EXPORT, in their fourth edition, fostered by the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism, by means of SEGITTUR and the collaboration with ICEX España Exportación e Inversiones. On the other hand, FITURTECH, supported by the Hotel Technological Institute, ITH, will bring the future of the travel industry to its tenth edition.
FITUR 2016 also invites to the 7th edition of FITURGREEN, along with WTO and ITH. The sixth FITUR GAY (LGBT), organized with Diversity Consulting, also provides a business spaces for the gay sector, which in Spain represents 6,100 million of incomes in terms of visits.
The fair is going to boost up customized meetings and contact agendas in a bid to facilitate business reunions. That’s the case of FITUR B2B Workshop Hosted Buyer, which develops an intense agenda of face-to-face meetings between attending companies and a comprehensive group of international buyers.