The next Bern Holiday Fair will not take place until 2022
The Bern Travel Fair, scheduled for January 2021, has been postponed. By doing so, the organizer, Bernexpo, is providing exhibitors with transparency and planning certainty well in advance. The FESPO will still take place as planned.
With around 35,000 visitors, the Bern Holiday Fair is the oldest tourism trade fair in Switzerland. The next edition of the fair, which is held annually on the Bernexpo site, would have been scheduled for January 7-10, 2021. Due to the Corona pandemic and its economic consequences for exhibitors, Bernexpo Groupe has decided not to hold the vacation fair again until 2022.
"The decision was very difficult for us. However, it is important for our customers to make a decision early on, because many exhibitors will soon be starting detailed planning for the trade fair and this will trigger costs," says Jennifer Somm, CEO of Bernexpo. Therefore, in this difficult situation, the group wants to provide clarity and planning security to the exhibitors at an early stage.
Reduced version is not an option
Holding the Bern Fair in a reduced version was also not an option. "In the last two years, we have sharpened the orientation of the fair together with the exhibitors and other partners and received a lot of positive feedback for this. If we were now to hold the vacation fair in a reduced version, this would not be a satisfactory basis for either the exhibitors or the visitors, neither economically nor in terms of content," explains Exhibition Director Mario Kovacevic.
FESPO is carried out
The holding of FESPO in Zurich is being maintained at the present time. Bernexpo Groupe would like to hold the trade fair in Zurich as planned from January 14 to 17, 2021. However, the situation will also be assessed here on an ongoing basis and in close exchange with exhibitors and key partners.
Next vacation fair in 2022
The next vacation fair in Bern will be held from 13 to 16 January 2022. The early postponement of the vacation trade fair allows the players in the travel industry to adapt to the new starting situation with sufficient lead time and to gear their appearance to the situation.
