World Travel Industry Renews Trust in FITUR 2016

The thirty-sixth staging of FITUR, the International Tourism Trade Show, will be held from 20 to 24 January 2016 in Madrid.

The event, which as is traditional marks the start of the international calendar of happenings in the travel sector, will once again stand out for its capacity as a privileged meeting point for the global tourism industry, and a business tool fostering synergies and promoting commercial contacts and agreements.

As a result, three months before it is held, the response from the various exhibition areas is highly encouraging, with the contracting process advancing at a good pace.

IFEMA, the institution that organizes FITUR 2016, is therefore intensifying preparations for the forthcoming edition with very positive expectations, in line with the results achieved last time around, which set a historical record for participation at the Expo, providing the ideal launching pad for this to be the first major event of the year in the global tourism industry.

In fact FITUR 2015, which brought together the tourism offering of 9,419 companies from 165 countries, clocked up 220,551 visitors, of whom 125,084 were professionals, with an increase of 12% in international professional visitors.

The dedication and trust that tourism companies and official bodies place in FITUR has therefore developed in harmony with the good times being experienced by tourism both globally and specifically in Spain.

In this regard, according to UNWTO forecasts, Spain will amass 68 million international tourists in 2015, an increase of 6.2% in the foreign tourists visiting the country, maintaining its position in the global rankings at third in terms of the number of arrivals, and second by revenue.