Dubai Travel Show Debuts
Staff -- Tradeshow Week, 4/30/2007
The pace of new show launches abroad continues, with a few date changes and cancellations rounding out this week's international news.
- Senken Shimbun will introduce an exhibition for moderately upscale imported products for the Japanese fashion market. Terroir debuts July 18–20 at Tokyo Big Sight, concurrently with Senken Shimbun's Intl. Fashion Fair for the Japanese fashion market.
- Messe Frankfurt, organizer of Interstoff Asia Essential, will take around 100 exhibitors from the Hong Kong fabric show to a new, specially organized mini-trade fair, Vietnam Business Meeting. The event, which will take place Aug. 9–10 in the Ho Chin Minh City Intl. Convention & Exhibition Centre, will give foreign suppliers and manufacturers of apparel fabrics a chance to meet with such potential buyers from around country as garment makers, fabric trading companies, agents and garment and textile designers.
- Messe Frankfurt Hong Kong will feature consumer brands from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Portugal, Spain, Thailand and the United States in the debut of its Interior Lifestyle China, Sept. 13–16 at the Shanghai Exhibition Centre.
- U.K. organizer TDH Exhibitions will launch Rail Solutions Asia Sept. 19–21 at the Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre. The show will focus on railway development, financing, technology, maintenance, design and operational issues.
- CMP Technology will launch Embedded Systems Conference India, Oct. 4–6 at NIMHANS Convention Centre in Bangalore, India. The event, a spin-off of its U.S. and Asian counterparts, will draw attention to India's growing influence in global embedded systems.
- Reed Tradex of Thailand will debut Metalex Vietnam, Oct. 11–13 in Hanoi's Vietnam Agriculture Marketing Fair and Exhibition Center. The international show will focus on machine tools and metalworking technology.
- Centaur Exhibitions' Business Travel Show, already held in London and Duesseldorf, will debut Oct. 29–30 at Madinat Arena in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The new show is a joint venture with local organizer Dnata World of Events. Paul Robin, travel portfolio director, at Centaur Exhibitions, said Dubai has enormous potential for the show, because the travel market there is growing and many market features long established in Europe, such as zero commission or the use of corporate credit cards, are just arriving there.
- O'Reilly Media and CMP Technology, co-producers of the annual Web 2.0 Summit and the global Web 2.0 Expo event series, will launch Web 2.0 Expo Berlin for the European Web economy, Nov. 6–8 at Fairground Berlin (Germany). The event will focus on technical, design, marketing and business professionals who are building the next generation Web.
