(Finance) – Travel, transport, hospitality, supplies, furnishings and surfaces, the design of outdoor and green spaces: with a +19% of professional visitors compared to 2022, TTG And InOut, respectively in its 60th edition and its debut, concluded today at the Rimini Fair, marking a constant trend of growth in attendance from the international and Italian tourist market. Attendance also growing compared to 2019. TTG Travel Experience and InOut – The Contract Community by Italian Exhibition Group they are confirmed for the market as the most important b2b events in Italy for the international tourism industry with 2,700 exhibiting brands. An opinion also shared by Minister Daniela Santanchè who last Wednesday participated in the inaugural ceremony of the two salons in Rimini. Media visibility was extraordinary with over 270 million gross contacts reached.
The legacy and future of the historic events SIA Hospitality Design And SUN Beach&Outdoor Style have found completion in the eagerly awaited 2023 novelty InOut, the new format designed by IEG and dedicated to contract community which also includes Superfaces and the new one Greenscape for the design of green spaces, both external and internal in the hospitality world. These supply chains have been joined, in the b2b offer, by the swimming pool and wellness industry with the pavilion Poolwidedirected by Assopiscine, which also proposed discussion panels and perspectives for the sector which brings together 2,300 Italian companies for a total of more than 15 thousand employees and which in the last ten years has recorded an average growth of more than 5%, which jumped to +13% in the last two years.
A thousand foreign buyers attended the fair over the three days of the event, from 62 countries, with 58% coming from Europe and 42% from the rest of the world, thanks also to the partnerships with Agency ICE in particular for the new InOut format. Coming mostly from the USA, UK, Germany, Spain, France and Switzerland, they confirm Italy, with all the Regions present at the fair, among the most desired destinations by travelers from all over the world and which in particular make the square of Rimini the highlight for the incoming sector.
TTG led to Rimini 55 international destinationsi: from the return of Turkey, to a greater presence of Portugal and Egypt: important recognition of the strategic role of the event. Among the new features is China, which has returned to the business center of Rimini to reinvent its tourism offer. The Kingdom of Jordan, however, was TTG’s country partner for the second consecutive time.
TTG Luxury Event And TTG Med, the first one was good. Driven by international buyers who frequent the Rimini marketplace, IEG has created a b2b event to purchase tourist products not only in Italian destinations, but abroad to abroad in Mediterranean destinations, with a very positive sentiment from the operators. Furthermore, with the event dedicated to the luxury segment, TTG allows us to refine the proposal of Italian excellence on markets ranging from the United States to India, passing through France and Argentina.
TTG and InOut brought the clear message of the to the public of stakeholders of the two shows and to the protagonists of the industry institutions he was born in government on the subject of state concessions and the centrality of tourism supply chains, thus collecting the message of the new president of IEG Maurice Hermes: “Tourism is the perfect sector for our country, because it redistributes wealth and value among medium-small businesses.”
The ceremony was attended by the vice president of the Senate Gian Marco Centinaiothe undersecretary of culture Victor Sgarbithe president of Federalberghi Bernabo Mouththe mayor of Rimini Jamil Sadegholvaad, Andrew CorsiniCouncilor for Tourism of the Emilia-Romagna Region, Ivana JelinicPresident of ENIT, e Louis Cabrinipresident of Global Sustainable Tourism Council.
TTG and InOut have chosen as the main theme UTFPIA. LIVE. BELIEVE, to interpret, develop and amplify the requests for renewal that are going through the tourism sector, in line with the new values of travellers. No longer a simple space for escape, tourism is preparing to welcome the challenges imposed by contemporary sentiment, with a marked attention to sustainability, in the broadest possible sense, all still to be defined and imagined, yet alive in its urgency. Theme explored in most of the events scheduled for the three days of the event, with specific focuses on travel, recovery of the relationship with nature – from the outdoors to furnishing elements – and green spaces. IEG’s ability to bring together the professional community has made available over 200 events with more than 250 speakers hosted in the nine Arenas: from the use of digital technologies and the metaverse to space travel, to Vision +24, to learn about the new languages of consumer market.
Together with the most representative ones associations of category, from Federalberghi and all the sectors represented by Confcommercio, to ASTOI, FTO, up to FAITA Federcamping, SIB, Fiavet, Assoviaggi and CNA, Assopiscine, the institutional partner ENIT, all the Regions, up to the world of research with ISNART, Polytechnic of Milan and the CNR, ISMED, CISET, Legambiente, ISNART and Unioncamere. IEG gives an appointment to the entire Italian and international tourism industry, from 9 to 11 October 2024.