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Outdoor Retailer sees strong Snow Show in Denver for January 2022
Reacting to an announcement that the buying associations that make up the U.S. Winter Sports Market (WSM) show would be moving their event to Salt Lake City starting next winter, Marisa Nicholson, senior vice president and show director of Outdoor Retailer (OR), stated in an open letter that the winter ...
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Munich Fabric Start ready to "Rise" physically next week
With around 1,000 collections on 430,000 square meters of “Covid-19 compliant” exhibition space at MOC Munich and the newly designed Zenith area, “visitors are invited to be inspired, meet long-term partners and finally experience materials live again in their diversity and depth” at Munich Fabric Start (seasonal title: ”Rise”) on ...
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News briefsMesse München deploys a 5G network
Exhibitors and visitors at ISPO Munich and other shows organized by Messe München may be able to work on the internet faster in the future.Messe München has announced that it will join forces with the mobile communication operators Telekom, Vodafone and Telefónica Deutschland/O2 to launch one of the world’s most ...
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Italian Skipass trade show confirmed as a physical event this autumn
After the cancellation of the event in 2020 due to the Covid-19 crisis, Skipass, the Italian consumer-oriented trade fair for winter sports and tourism, will regularly take place in Modena from Oct. 29 to Nov. 1, 2021. The event, organized by ModenaFiere, targets tour operators, managers of winter resorts, specialty ...
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Paris 2024 and Milano Cortina 2026 sign collaboration agreement
The Organizing Committees for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games and the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games have announced a collaboration agreement aimed at encouraging joint initiatives and activities toward more sustainable and innovative Games in 2024 and 2026. The agreement was signed by Paris ...
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News briefsMarkus Dirr appointed executive director product marketing and sales at Messe München
Source: Messe München Markus Dirr Just in time for the restart of the trade show season, ISPO organizer Messe München has established a new central division, “Product Marketing and Sales.” The newly structured unit is to bring together the marketing and sales competencies of the two disciplines ...
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News briefsCompanies still want in-person trade shows, new survey suggests
Companies appreciated and approved the additional benefits offered by hybrid trade show formats during the pandemic but still want to participate in physical trade fairs. Among the respondents in a new survey conducted by Messe Frankfurt, 97 percent said that in-person events are essential components of trade fairs, including 67 ...
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Diffusion Sport is holding a sports industry congress
Diffusion Sport is organizing a congress, called Sport Forum, for professionals in the sporting sector. The first edition is scheduled for Oct. 20-21 at the International Convention Center in Barcelona, Spain. It will form part of the Plataforma de Negocio event, a gathering of professionals in the security, customer experience, ...
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RiminiWellness opens ticket sales for live event
The organizers of RiminiWellness have announced that online ticket sales are officially open for the 15th edition of the show, which is scheduled to take place as a physical event on Sept. 24-26 at Rimini Expo Center in Rimini, on Italy’s Adriatic coast. RiminiWellness is the Italian Exhibition Group’s (IEG) ...
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2022 Skyrunning World Championships to be held in Italy
The seventh edition of the biennial Skyrunning World Championships will be held in Italy on Sept. 9-11, 2022. The host venue will be Ossola, in Italy’s Piedmont, a region situated to the north of Lago Maggiore, close to the Swiss border. The area, set in an amphitheater surrounded by snow-covered ...
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Expo Riva Schuh closes with 406 exhibitors and 2,700 visitors
The 95th edition of Expo Riva Schuh and the 6th edition of Gardabags attracted over 2,700 visitors from 79 different countries, confirming their international reach despite the travel limitations caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Buyers came from Europe - especially Italy, Germany, Poland, Spain, France and the Netherlands - as ...
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News briefsISPO launches a new network, the Collaborators Club
As a derivative of the ISPO Open Innovation platform for community activation, the ISPO Group has now launched the ISPO Collaborators Club as a new network for both industry members and consumers. As a member, you can keep your finger on the pulse of the consumer and thus improve your ...
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The Sportsdays trade show in Zurich went well
A total of 70 companies representing more than 240 brands took part in the sportsdays.ch by ISPO Munich in Zurich on June 21 and 22, addressing Swiss buyers with a preview of spring/summer 2022 collections. The new format of the national Swiss trade show, which replaces the former Inspirationstage, is ...
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The Scottish Golf Show is being re-branded as it goes national
The Scottish Golf Show, which is regarded as Europe’s largest consumer-oriented golf exhibition, is being re-branded as part of a new growth strategy, resulting in two national events scheduled to take place early in 2022. They will be named “bunkered Live.” The first one will be held at the NEC ...
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The Beijing 2022 Olympics want to engage 300 million Chinese in winter sports
The Beijing Organising Committee of the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games has integrated the goal of positioning China as a new winter sports destination for local and overseas visitors throughout the planning process for the Games. It has just released a 108-page “Legacy Report of Olympic and Paralympic Winter ...
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Pitti Studios: a new creative service for exhibitors
Pitti Immagine, the organizer of various fashion-related trade shows in Florence, is adding a new service, Pitti Studios, providing a new communication platform for exhibitors. They can have their new product releases photographed or filmed by the Pitti team. The customized images and film recordings can be integrated into a ...
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Spain's Festibike cancelled for a second year
In 2021, for the second year in a row, there will be no Festibike. The annual Spanish consumer-oriented cycling-industry festival – organized by a Portuguese events company called Lastlap – was scheduled for Sept. 10-12 in Las Rozas. Also canceled are the accompanying MTB Marathon and FBK Cyclocross, which were ...
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New British Cycling Show in June 2022
Raccoon Events, the U.K.-based company behind events such as the National Running Show, the National Snow Show or the National Outdoor Expo, announced today that it is adding another consumer event to its portfolio: The National Cycling Show, scheduled for June 18-19, 2022, at the NEC in ...
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Women’s Golf Day 2021 exceeds previous records
Women’s Golf Day (WGD) 2021 saw the total number of participating venues reach 941, exceeding previous records. The sixth edition of WGD took place in more than 80 countries around the world on June 1st. New Zealand, Japan and Argentina joined the WGD Community for the first time this year. ...
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Arc’teryx will hold its Alpine Academy on-site and digitally from July 1
Arc’teryx’ Alpine Academy will return to Chamonix for the tenth time on July 1-4, accompanied by a full digital program. For those who can make it to the French alpine village, the downtown area will host movie screenings, DJ sets, product demos and more. An Arc’teryx brand experience area will ...
