December 9, 2011:
Despite the difficult economic environment, the major European exhibition centres belonging to EMECA did good business in 2011 and intend to carry on expanding in 2012. More than 100 new exhibitions and events are planned, said EMECA President Piero Venturelli at the association's annual reception in Brussels. Venturelli is head of the Rimini (Italy) exhibition centre. He took over from René Kamm (Basel Exhibition Centre) as EMECA President at the beginning of the year.

"We have every reason to be optimistic about the future", said Venturelli. Against a background of the debt crisis drawing more and more countries into its spell and many business sectors threatened by recession, the exhibition sector continues to develop positively, bucking the trend. "We had more than 1300 exhibitions, with more than 320,000 exhibitors, 40 million visitors and a turnover of more than 2.5 billion Euros", said Venturelli.
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