Fira de Barcelona
| 2014 Report
Hostelco
International Hotel, Restaurant and Community Equipment Show
20-23/October
Gran Via. 17th edition
The latest edition of Hostelco consolidated the
high level of internationalisation of an event
at which new areas and numerous activities
were launched to showcase new business
opportunities, the latest technologies applied to
the catering industry and the most innovative
formats for professionals in the sector. For
the first time, moreover, Hostelco took place
simultaneously with the Gastronomic and
Bar Forum to form Barcelona Hosting Week,
a great platform for the industry that embraces
the whole value chain, from equipment to
product processing.
A total of 518 companies took part in
the show, 25% of them foreign, from 33
countries, and more than 1,200 brands were
represented. To these impressive numbers
should also be added the quality of visitors,
who included more than 600 VIP buyers,
selected amongst the personnel and managers
with the greatest purchasing potential, half
of them international, particularly from
North Africa, the Gulf countries, the United
States, Canada, Latin America and European
markets. In total, this first Barcelona Week
Hosting attracted some 57,000 visitors,
15% of them foreign, from more than one
hundred countries.
Concerned, as ever, with educational
aspects, Hostelco included a series of activities,
such as the Hospitality Business Event, which
included a programme of some 20 talks by
50 leading national and international experts
on the them of hotel management, catering,
fitness, exports and security. According to
these speakers, the future of the industry will
be marked by such aspects as specialisation
in premium or low cost services, capacity
to adapt to customer needs and adoption
of new business models. In the hotel trade,
the keys to the market will be technological
innovation, user experience and differentiation
Area
77.600 m
2
Exhibitors
500
Type
Professional
Activities
Business meetings,
demonstrations,
championships
Organised by
Fira de Barcelona and
Federación Española
de Asociaciones de
Fabricantes de Maquinaria
para Hostelería,
Colectividades e Industrias
Afines (FELAC) in
cooperation with the
Federación Española de
Hostelería (FEHR)
