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| Expo Real reports attendance decline As generally expected, this year's Expo Real, the 12th International Commercial Property Exposition, showed a decline in attendance of around 15% to 21,000 visitors from 73 countries (24,800 from 78 countries in 2008). In addition to the visitors, the exhibiting companies brought 14,750 representatives to the trade fair. Expo Real 2009 thus hosted over 35,000 participants. The top ten visiting countries next to Germany were in order – United Kingdom, Austria, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Poland, France, the Czech Republic, USA, Russia and Luxembourg. The themes of the trade fair revolved around how to cope with the crisis and what opportunities it provided. Sustainability, especially from the economic point of view, was also a much-discussed topic. 1580 companies from 34 countries exhibited at Expo Real 2009. For the first time there was a large participation from Luxembourg and also from Belarus. Turkey's group stand this year was their largest participation yet. The next Expo Real takes place from 4-6 October 2010 in Munich. write your comments about the article :: © 2009 Construction News :: home page |