Vacation fair St. Gallen becomes part of the spring and trend fair Offa
Not enough exhibitors have been found for the St. Gallen vacation fair planned for January. Now the fair will take place as a special theme at Offa.
The St. Gallen vacation trade fair planned for January 2023 was unable to achieve the targets set in terms of exhibitor bookings. Therefore, the trade fair will now find a new place as a guest event and special theme in the spring and trend trade fair Offa (Olma Messen St. Gallen) from April 19 to 23.
The event-ex AG, organizer of the vacation fair St. Gallen, has decided in these days to renounce the realization of its three-day fair from January 20 - 22, 2023 in the planned form as a singular event and to postpone it to February 2024. The target size for pre-registrations of around 200 exhibiting travel companies could not be reached by October 2022.
Staff shortage and parallel event
"One thing that has put a spanner in the works is the fact that, since the summer months, many tour operators and travel agencies have been
We are literally overrun by customer inquiries and have to work with fewer staff than before the crisis. For this reason, a large number of the hoped-for exhibitors will not be able to take part in an additional vacation trade fair due to a lack of personnel, in addition to the existing trade fairs in Zurich and Berne," says Peter Plan, head of the organizer team. Another difficulty is the simultaneous CMT Stuttgart (Europe's largest travel trade fair), which makes participation in St. Gallen impossible, especially for country representatives, regional tourism offices and airlines.
