SPAIN – The furniture, lighting and décor fair Hábitat Valencia opens its doors from Tuesday 18th to Friday 21st September, with all the exhibition space available booked and an offering that includes more than 415 international companies and brands.
Feria Hábitat Valencia will be occupying four pavilions on Feria Valencia’s Level 2 plus the Central Mall. Overall, Hábitat will have more than 45,000 square meters of exhibition space at its disposal and net occupation, in terms of stand surface area, is 20% up on last year’s. The positive figures are essentially due to the fair having re-signed almost all the exhibitors from last year on the back of the fair’s excellent performance and, also, having signed up a select group of new exhibitors. Another notable feature this year is that almost twice as many Italian brands are exhibiting against last year.
As the event’s director, Daniel Marco, explains, “following the excellent results that the last edition produced and having fulfilled the objective of returning Valencia’s most emblematic trade fair to its former standing, we set ourselves the task this year of giving the fair a serious boost to launch it on the road to sustainable growth and, at the same time, create an offering that comprises the best companies that in turn offer superior quality and design and the best services for all the professionals who visit.”
Regarding visitors the forecasts are also excellent. Over the last few weeks the fair has seen a 20% rise in the number of professionals pre-registering to visit, together with the rise in confirmations received from foreign buyers. As part of what has been the most ambitious program of recent years to recruit international visitors, the fair is expecting more than 1000 international buyers and specifiers to visit, all of whom have confirmed. It is significant, too, that these visitors will be arriving from 56 countries as opposed to last year’s 45, meaning that now all five continents will be represented.
