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Barcelona International
Comic Fair
14-17 APRIL
MONTJUÏC. 29TH EDITION
Surface area:
19.000 m
2
Exhibitors:
168
Nature:
public
Activities:
exhibitions, awards, round-table
debates, workshops
Organiser:
Ficomic
Comic strip enthusiasts filled Pavilion no. 8 on
Montjuïc, the venue for the 29th edition of the
International Comic Fair, an event that high-
lighted the dynamism of a discipline that goes
far beyond simple entertainment.
Thanks to its varied programme of activities, the
Comic Fair, which was visited by over 100,000
people, constituted a nucleus of recreational and
cultural interest. Visitors’ attention was focused
on several thematic exhibitions: those devoted to
zombies, the living dead that feature in films, tel-
evision series, books and comics; to the legend-
ary Tarzan; to the fascinating personality of cats;
and to the attempted coup d’état that took place
in Spain on February 23 1981, just 30 years ago,
with comic strips published by the magazines El
Jueves and El Víbora, which recall what occurred
that day at the House of Deputies.
A series of rock concerts, a video-game area and
encounters between professionals completed
the programme of an event that also took to the
streets, for the International Comic Fair organ-
ised nighttime film projections at a number of
venues in Barcelona and Badalona.
The long list of Spanish and foreign cartoonists
who attended the Fair attests to the high crea-
tive and artistic level of the present-day comic,
now regarded as the ‘ninth art’. Furthermore, and
as on previous occasions, the event served as a
point of contact and agreement between crea-
tors and publishers.
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Cosmobelleza &Wellness
The International Hairdressing,
Beauty and Wellness Show
26-28 FEBRUARY
GRAN VIA. 17TH EDITION
Surface area:
38.000 m
2
Exhibitors:
295
Nature:
professional
Activities:
technical seminars; training sessions;
competitions; congresses; business rounds
Organiser:
Grup Cosmobelleza
The latest trends in hairdressing, beauty
treatment, cosmetics and makeup, hot-spring
treatment and wellness were presented, once
again, at Cosmobelleza & Wellness, one of
the Euromediterranean region’s major events
devoted to all-round beauty.
This edition was attended by 295 exhibitors from
Germany, Australia, Belgium, China, the United
States, France, Italy, Jordan, Pakistan, the Neth-
erlands, Poland, Portugal, the United Kingdom,
the Czech Republic, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine and
Venezuela. The event, therefore, has acquired
great prestige worldwide and attracted 98,600
professionals, of whom 15%were foreigners
from a total of 69 countries.
Cosmobelleza &Wellness organised several
business rounds betweenmanufacturers and
distributors in order to foster trade contacts. As
has become customary by now, training sessions
took place at which the latest beauty-treatment
techniques were taught. Prominent in this context
were the 25th Aesthetics Congress, a classic for
professionals in the sector, at which new develop-
ments inmassage,makeup and treatments
are presented, and the Barcelona Hair Fashion
Parade, graced by the presence of Michael Shaun,
the famous Hollywood star hairdresser.
Furthermore, practical sessions were held
on beauty-treatment techniques (ultrasound
cavitation, neocollagenesis, photoepilation, etc.),
as well as the now traditional body makeup
contest, seminars on hot-spring treatment and
franchises, and demonstrations of nail decora-
tion, one of the fastest growing segments in
Spain in recent years.
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E-commretail Barcelona
The Professional e-Commerce
and Online Business Show
02-03 MARCH
MONTJUÏC. 2ND EDITION
Surface area:
6.700 m
2
Exhibitors:
120
Nature:
professional
Activities:
seminars, conferences, master
classes, ECOMM Awards prizegiving
Organiser:
Fopren
Companies and professionals from several sec-
tors related to technology and electronic trade
services, social media, browsers, digital market-
ing, logistics and cloud computing, among oth-
ers, met at a Fair that after only two editions has
doubled in numbers of exhibitors and visitors.
The Fira has also become consolidated as a
benchmark in a speciality, applicable to a host of
sectors and economic activities, that is undergo-
ing rapid expansion.
E-commretail organised numerous seminars, con-
ferences andmaster classes imparted by a total
of over 200 international speakers,who covered
the range of experience in onlinemarketing and
electronic trade of firms like Google, Facebook, FC
Barcelona, LinkedIn,Telepizza, Softonic,Munic,
Cuatrecasas, Vodafone, ACB, Buy Vip, Privalia,
Vente Priveé, Pixmania, Euroleague Basketball,
Fnac,McCann Eriksson, Herraiz & Soto, Cofidis,
Fotocasa, Drupal and Joomla, among others.
Experts forecast an 18% increase in online sales
in Europe during 2011 and a business turnover
of 200,000 million euros. It was estimated that
online sales in Spain would increase by 19%,
reaching a figure of some 9,400 million euros,
and that each Spaniard spends an average of
892 euros per year in online purchases.
On theoccasionof the fair, theprizegiving ceremony
of theECOMMAwards 2011 tookplace, in recogni-
tionof thebest Spanishelectronic tradefirms in
thefields of services and technologies for electronic
trade.Among thewinnerswereZara.com,Dressfor-
less.es,Enepe.com,Rentamus.es andHotel.info.
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EIBTM
Exhibition for the Incentive, Business Travel
and Meeting Industry
29 NOVEMBER - 01 DECEMBER
GRAN VIA. 8TH EDITION IN BARCELONA
Surface area:
42.900 m
2
Exhibitors:
3.116
Nature:
professional
Activities:
conferences, seminars, workshops,
business rendezvous, awards
Organiser:
Reed Travel Exhibitions
EIBTM, regarded as the most important world
event in its speciality, held one of its most suc-
cessful editions with the presence of visitors
and buyers from 90 countries, notably the United
States, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Russia,
Poland, Holland, China and Brazil.
Among those attending were travel agents, tour
operators, congress and convention centres,
hotel chains, service providers and international
event organisers from all over the world.
During the three days of the event the Fair was
visited by some 15,200 buyers and travel plan-
ners, and meetings took place there to present all
the new developments and trends in the sector
and to decide where and how future events would
be held. In this context, we highlight the fact that
around 65,000 trade rendezvous took place, a
figure that far surpasses that of 2010.
Prominent among new developments was the new
space ‘Experience for Future Events’, a foretaste of
what conferences andmeetings will probably be
like in forthcoming years and how technological
innovations will influence the sector.
For the first time China officially presented
its business tourism, congress and incentives
travel programme, a field with major growth
prospects in that country.
Other initiatives included the presentation of
a new international study of the sector, the
EIBTM Awards, several seminars, conferences,
networking events, workshops, demonstrations
and product promotions.
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