Of the 222,000 attendees, 136,000 have professionals from the sector and 86,000 guestsThe tourism truthful claims to have an financial influence of 400 million eurosEcuador would be the main nation within the 2024 version
The International Tourism Fair (Fitur) closes its doorways this Sunday after a couple of days which have registered a follow-up progress in comparison with final 12 months, with greater than 222,000 attendees, 136,000 professionals, 68% extra, and 86,000 guests.
In phrases of participation, the truthful has introduced collectively 8,500 firms, 131 international locations, 755 holders, all through 8 pavilions of the fairgrounds, which have represented a internet space of 66,900 m2 of exhibition, equaling the occupation of 2020, has reported Ifema Madrid in a press release.
This motion of arrivals at Fitur is estimated to generate an influence on the Madrid economic system of roughly 400 million euros. It has additionally registered a “nice milestone” within the digital sphere, and that’s that solely on the primary day of the truthful, site visitors to the Ifema Madrid web site skyrocketed, reaching the historic document of 146,000 visits.
#FITUR2023 closes its doorways right this moment, an version that has exceeded all expectations, highlighting the great prospects for world tourism exercise, registering vital progress, equaling the figures of its historic document: greater than 222,000 attendees. pic.twitter.com/r2mOqBzG9Z
— FITUR (@fitur_madrid) January 22, 2023
In this similar context, the Fitur LIVEConnect digital platform, which enhances the truthful with a hybrid format with a higher temporal and geographical scope, data greater than 56,000 registrations up to now, in comparison with the 31,000 whole in 2022.
As yearly, Ifema Madrid has highlighted the “sturdy institutional assist that Fitur has obtained, with the assist of Casa Real which, as soon as once more, put the final touch to the opening day with the presence of Their Majesties the King and Queen of Spain, in addition to by the Government of Spain”.
In addition, Fitur 2023 has had the go to of the President of Guatemala, Alejandro Eduardo Giammattei, accomplice nation of this version; the President of the Government of Spain, Pedro Sánchez; UNWTO representatives; 30 tourism ministers from totally different international locations; the Ministers of Economy and Social Affairs of Guatemala; 6 Spanish ministers; 15 presidents of Autonomous Communities and Tourism Councilors from 16 communities, and 100 ambassadors and enterprise managers, and mayors from totally different cities and cities within the nation. In whole, the attendance of 400 authorities gathered round this version of Fitur has been counted.
The influence of the celebration of Fitur 2023 has additionally been mirrored within the large attendance of the press and worldwide media protection registered in the course of the days of the truthful, wherein 6,374 journalists have been accredited -58% greater than in 2022- of whom 5,861 have been nationwide and 513 worldwide from 46 international locations.
In the social media atmosphere, in the course of the first two days of FITUR there was a progress locally of three,724 followers, in order that the Fitur profiles on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin now have a complete of 288,557 followers. In addition, all of the publications made throughout these first days have obtained 1,676,316 impressions. On the Fitur Twitter profile, it has been a Trending Topic within the No. 1 place in Spain on the 2 days of the truthful, acquiring greater than 500 every day mentions on stated channel.
In addition, the determine of Socio Fitur already has a protagonist for the following version, as was revealed in the course of the celebration of the truthful, wherein it was introduced by the Minister of Tourism of Ecuador, Niels Olsen and the president of the Executive Committee of Ifema Madrid, José Vicente de los Mozos, who signed the collaboration settlement by which Ecuador shall be ‘Fitur Partner Country’ within the subsequent version of the International Tourism Fair, to be held in January 2024.