Christmas Fair Barcelona

Almost 300 stands will remain open to the public until December 23

Fira de Santa Llúcia-2018

La Fira de Santa Llúcia is much more than a fair or a point of sale for purely Christmas items, for many people in Barcelona it is the beginning of the Christmas holidays. And so it has been happening since time immemorial, there are those who already have 232 editions, since 1786. The fact is that this appointment has already become a tradition to celebrate these days: the purchase of ornaments, figures for the Nativity scene, tiós , Christmas trees, zambombas or ornaments in general.

But it is not only Barcelona’s neighbors who enjoy this particular market, but thousands of tourists who come to the vicinity of the Cathedral to get into the Catalan Christmas tradition, where they discover two singular characters: the tió and, the star of In recent years, the caganer. The latter a figure “is a real success among the outsiders who buy it as if it were a souvenir”, recognizes one of the merchants who sells figures for the nativity scene. And it is that this charming character of the Catalan crib has conquered millions of people around the world interpreting all kinds of public personalities, the political, sports and social world.

The 285 stands that form this year the Fira de Santa Llúcia will remain open until next December 23. The working days from 11 a.m. to 8.30 p.m. and holidays and vigils from 10 a.m. to 9.30 p.m.

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Integrated Systems Europe (ISE)-Barcelona

Barcelona will host the world’s leading audiovisual fair since 2020

 

Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) Barcelona

The difficulties to renew the board of directors of the Fira de Barcelona have not affected the daily management of this important economic institution of the Catalan capital. After many months of intense and very discreet negotiation, the team led by the general director of the Fira, Constantí Serrallonga, has agreed with the organizing company of the Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) fair so that, starting in the year 2020, it will be held in Barcelona.

The ISE will therefore leave its traditional headquarters, Amsterdam, where almost all previous editions have been held. It is a world leading business meeting in the audiovisual sector (AV) and integrated systems. The last edition, held last February, was attended by more than 80,000 professional visitors from all over the world.

Its duration is the same as Mobile, from Monday to Thursday and also stands out for its high professional and global component. Precisely, one of the concerns of the managers of the Fira has been to ensure a high level of fair activity for successive years to ensure the economic soundness of the project.

The current contract with Mobile expires in 2023, so both megabytes will coincide in several years in the same city. The ISE is held in Amsterdam in the month of February, so in Barcelona you must change the date to not coincide with the Mobile. The new agreement, in any case, consolidates Barcelona as a leading city in this field, regardless of what happens at the end of the current contract with the Mobile organization led by John Hoffman as GSMA’s top executive.

The megasalón started in Geneva and has been held in Amsterdam during the last years

The organization of the ISE is in the hands of an association with the same name between the two main world business organizations of the audiovisual industry, Avixa and Cedia. The director of the fair is Mike Blackman. The event was born in 2004, with a first edition in Geneva, with 120 exhibitors and 3,500 visitors. This year, the first ones were 1,200 and the second ones, 80,000.

The direct economic impact of a hall of these characteristics is of a level quite close to that of Mobile, which is estimated to amount to about 470 million euros per year and about 13,000 temporary jobs.

But, in addition, there is the effect of adding value to the rest of the economy, encouraging the development of new activities and companies, in a sector that on the other hand is hardly present in Catalonia. It is a dynamic similar to that of Mobile, which generated new companies in the field of communications and has ended up being a subsector with great job creation in the Catalan economy.

The ISE organizes its salons into seven major subproduct categories: projection systems, manual remote controls, wiring, conference infrastructure, digital signage, audio systems and content management. In addition, each edition addresses specific topics. In this year we have included residential solutions, building automation, digital signage, audio and video for live shows, audiovisual for education and training, technology for work and augmented reality, virtual and mixed.

In addition to the four strict days of the fair, in previous days, the hall organizes conferences, training and formation programs, demos.

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Car Show Barcelona-2017

Tesla will be the novelty of the show and will have about 300 square meters of exhibition

Car Show Barcelona-2017

Automobile Barcelona, ​​a reference for the automotive sector, will triple the number of brands in its first edition with the new commitment to innovation and technology. Of the thirty brands of last year will be more than ninety. “The project has liked,” said Enrique Lacalle, president of Automobile. For example, large technology such as Facebook, Waze (Google), IBM, Oracle or HP will pass through the show.

Behind the landing is the pursuit of innovation in the engine. This year will be incorporated into the traditional hall several platforms that endow it with that aura more technologically advanced. “It’s a new concept, a new philosophy. We have reinvented ourselves and surpassed ourselves, “said Lacalle.

On the one hand, because the connected car is where the automotive is headed. On the other, because “it guarantees the future of the hall” going “a step ahead in the fairs continental”. Nevertheless, it will be “a unique congress in Europe and in the world”, in which some 750,000 visitors are expected, in line with the previous year.

Tesla as a reference
The show, to be held at the fairgrounds of Montjuïc from 11 to 21 May, will count for the first time with the brand of cars par excellence in that to innovate. Tesla will say present. The automaker of Elon Musk will count for the first time with a space in the fair. About 300 square meters will serve to bring the future that the company imagines.

Together with Tesla, the traditional big brands: Seat, Toyota, Fiat, Ferrari, Mercedes Benz, Honda, Nissan, Renault, Mitsubishi … The list is around thirty. In addition, there will be institutional actors and industry associations. “It is offered much more than ever,” analyzed José Miguel García, director of Automobile Barcelona.

Future to debate
The new bet will pivot around two major events. One is the Connected Hub, which will host conference cycles, with some seventy representatives from companies around the world. Luca de Meo (Seat), Andreu Veà (ambassador of the EC digital agenda in Spain) or Juan Ignacio Zoido (Interior Minister) will be some of the voices that will be heard.

Topics such as cybersecurity, ownership of the vehicle, approach to the Internet of Things … “It is the opportunity to know what will happen in three or four years in the connected vehicle,” said Ugo Valenti, director of the Connected Hub.

Director of Connected Hub
In this sense, the Connected Hub will go to Innovation Square, where 25 startups will come into direct contact with manufacturers to offer their solutions. “You can not reinvent yourself without the startup ecosystem,” Valenti acknowledged. “It is the point of differentiation regarding anything that is done in other halls,” said Ricard Zapatero, a member of the steering committee of Fira de Barcelona.

Connected Hub to one side, the other great pivot of innovation in the Automobile will be Connected Street; The nexus between brands and visitors, where the firms will offer their latest news to drivers. “This is where innovations will be tested,” said Zapatero. It is about putting cutting-edge technologies within the user’s reach.

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Alimentaria Fair Barcelona

The fair, to be held from 25 to 28 April in the Gran Via de Fira de Barcelona, provides a higher economic impact of 170 million euros

Alimentaria Fair Barcelona

Alimentaria 2016, held from 25 to 28 April in the Gran Via de Fira de Barcelona, ​​addresses this year its most international edition coinciding with its 40th anniversary, when I expected to generate more than 170 million economic impact, similar the 2014 edition.

Also, the fair expects to maintain 42,000 140,000 visitors from other countries, while it will have 4,000 participating companies from 70 countries, up from 3,800 the previous edition. “The food industry and Spanish cuisine with creativity and work beyond what can be considered normal. We are a positive anomaly “, he stressed on Thursday at the presentation of the XXI edition of the Alimentaria Fair and president of Fira de Barcelona, ​​Josep Lluís Bonet.

Speaking to the media, Bonet added that the potential of the Spanish food industry allows it to be increasingly recognized internationally, so expect a “magnificent edition”, also thanks to the recovery of the Spanish economy is a fact , he has said.

Business Platform

The managing director of Alimentaria Exhibitions and lounge, J. Antonio Valls, Food erected as a business platform, so this issue has strengthened its program of international buyers and has invited more than 800 operators and importers from Latin America , Asia, USA, Canada, Europe and the Middle East.

Under these business meetings and new this year, the fair has created the Intervin Business Meetings, a program with 180 international buyers in the wine sector, while in the Food & Drink Business Meetings interviews between buyers and European exhibitors will be made, and The Brokerage Event will serve to close commercial and technological cooperation between European companies and innovation centers agreements.

Alimentaria 2016 maintains its traditional lounges, as Intervin, Intercarn, Interlact and Restaurama and presents new exhibition areas, as ‘Multiple Foods’, which is claimed as the lounge of food trends and special and functional products, housing Expoconser, international pavilions , Lands of Spain, Snacks, Biscuits & Confectionary, Mediterranean Foods, Healthy Foods, Fine Foods, Bar olive oils and premium area.

‘Showcookings’ 40 chefs’

In the 90,000 square meters that will hold the show together in the gastronomic forum The Alimentaria Experience 40 chefs, among them Joan Roca, Angel Leon, Ana Merino and Beatriz Sotelo, who will perform cooking demonstrations with the new gourmet dining trends were also given.

In the Vinorum Think they will present the latest industry and the most internationally renowned hand sommeliers and winemakers Spanish wines, and in The Alimentaria Hub more than 200 activities will be held, 300 innovative products will be presented and will be held 10,000 business meetings with buyers from foreign markets. Alimentaria 2016 will also host the international conference The Food Revolution Forum, organized by Reimagine Food and bringing together 100 speakers and robotics experts who will discuss the future of food.

Power: first industry

Industry food and drinks has established itself as the leading industrial sector in Spain with a turnover of 93,000 million euros, 3% of GDP, and exports stood at 24.018 million in 2014, 5.9 % more. In addition, the sector employs half a million people directly in Spain, 2.5 million and five million indirectly throughout the chain, with the best industry that has withstood the impact of the crisis.

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easyHotel in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat

The British chain easyHotel in L’Hospitalet will open its first hotel in Spain

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The British chain easyHotel will built in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat its first hotel in Spain, a facility with 200 rooms will open in 2018 and will involve an investment of 15 million euros.

The hotel will be located on the Avenue of the Granvia, it will also be the first chain to have their property outside the UK, but has other facilities or under a franchise operator in different European countries, as reported by the City Council in a statement.

The Mayor, Núria Marín, said that this new hotel “L’Hospitalet reaffirms as one of the leading business tourism and economic dynamism in Catalonia”. The company has chosen to settle around the Plaza de Europa of L’Hospitalet in assessing the proximity to the airport, Fira de Barcelona and the center of Barcelona, as well as connections to public transport and services on the environment.

The hotel easyHotel the 13 hotels that currently has the second largest city of Catalonia and offering a total of 3,600 seats will be added.

 

Children’s Festival

Emotions for children and youth

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The 52th edition Festival for Children comes loaded with fun for children of the family. The Montjuïc Fira de Barcelona will find more than 100 activities of all kinds. As a novelty, this year the festival expands the range of more traditional activities such as theater, puppets and magic, and release a large circus stilt walkers, trapeze artists and strongmen. In addition, they promote activities related to new technologies, such as robotics workshops, promoted concepts such as ecology, recycling and the environment. Healthy habits are also very present, as well as sports activities. In this edition, even you can make a kayak tour in a pool!

Another great new feature of the festival is the Peppa Pig theme park in which recreates the world of the characters of the famous cartoon series. “One day with Peppa the festival” can be seen from 27 to 30 December and 2 January 4.

Trends and action for children

The XD Young Fest is an ideal space for boys and girls between 10 and 14 years. In this space there is entertainment to sell and experiences related to multimedia technology, urban dances, 3D, sports and graffiti, among many others. From young people can develop apps and get into the world of robotics to perform concerts and electronic music sessions.

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90 activities and 10 Michelin stars at Barcelona Degusta

The food festival will be held from 24th to 27th September at the Fira Montjuïc participants known as Joan Roca, Carme Ruscalleda Christian Escribà

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The Barcelona Degusta food festival offers more than 90 activities to try and buy the best food production. Among the activities you can find lectures, workshops, tastings, stories or films.

Festival categoriacom participating chefs Joan Roca, Carme Ruscalleda, Fermin Puig, Nandu Jubany or Ada Parellada and master bakers as Christian Escribà or David Pallàs.

Children are also players in the area Taste Kids, designed so they know the food and experience there. Also, chocolate lovers and crafts can enjoy the sweet BCN & CAKE, the international fair of confectionery creative, this year joins Barcelona Degusta.

The agenda also includes the activities planned living outdoors that are held in place in the universe of the fairgrounds. In addition to a picnic area and an urban garden, settles a dining area caravans presenting the latest trends in cuisine street.

Barcelona Degusta also has a large market in the best national food production, with a special role of handcrafted creations.

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39 salons and congresses in the Fira de Barcelona in 2015

In the first half of the year, the Montjuïc and Gran Via have offered 39 rooms and conferences, more than half of which are scheduled throughout the year

Mobile World Congress

During the first meeting of the Fira Barcelona the Mayor of Barcelona, ​​Ada Colau highlighted the important economic and social role it plays in the institution and has been satisfied by the renewal until 2023 in Barcelona as Mobile World Capital and therefore, at the Mobile World Congress.

A total of 150 million profit

During 2014 Fira Barcelona earned revenues of 152.6 million euros, an increase of almost 30% compared to 2013 and 32% compared with 2012.

Results that the President of the Board of Directors of Fira Barcelona, ​​Josep Lluís Bonet, described as “exceptional” because they are the result of the combination of several factors recorded in 2014, as the improvement of shows organized by Fira, the holding major international events, and particularly the concentration of important corporate conferences medical nature and technology.

The calendar of events professionals

The General Council praised the smooth running of the financial year 2015, which will significantly exceed initial forecasts. During the first half of the year took place at the premises of Fira, part of the Mobile World Congress, the Motor Show, Hispack and Bta., Barcelona Bridal Week, or Beyond Building Graphispag Barcelona – Construmat.

In the second half of the calendar also includes professional events such as Smart City Expo World Congress, Pool & Spa Barcelona Boat Show, BcnRail, or IBTM World PharmaProcess. Among the novelties, on September IOT Solutions World Congress will be held the first World Congress on Industrial Applications of the Internet of things organized by Fira Barcelona.

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Stepped forward to hold the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona

Colau is the responsibility of the organizing and assumes the presidency of the mobile capital

The director of GSMA with Barcelona´s new major Ada Colau photo

Barcelona has done all his homework. Now if only the GSMA, the association has the rights and organizes the major international mobile congress decides, hopefully next week, if the event extends his contract with the Catalan capital, ending in 2018, during another five years until 2023. In the congress that the sector held in Shanghai between 15th and 17th of this month, the GSMA could sign the renewal of Barcelona, ​​and reject that option, something that seems unlikely at this point – either postpone the verdict until 2017 or even 2018. However, the latter response would be a worrying sign for the interests of the city, which would be submitted in the near future to a long and permanent bar examination to show that still worthy of the honor of hosting the congress.

After the change of government at City Hall gestures reassured the organizers were needed, convey a sense of “normality”. Therefore, the mayor Ada Colau chaired first meeting of the board of the Foundation Mobile World Capital Barcelona, ​​where the City Council, the Generalitat, the Spanish Government, Fira de Barcelona and a representation of the private sector are present, especially major mobile operators. The meeting, attended by the CEO of the GSMA, John Hoffman, Barcelona served to ratify the commitment of all members of the foundation with mobile capital and with Congress. A formality, but definitely an important gesture, because it tries to dispel doubts that some messages sent from the new municipal government -the latter, suspension of licenses for all kinds of tourist-accommodation had arisen in charge of making such a momentous decision . It was to give an image of cohesion and the goal seems fulfilled.

In the same direction circulated hours before the meeting itself remained Ada Colau, accompanied by the director general of Fira, Agustín Cordón, with John Hoffman. It was the first time Colau and Hoffman were face to face. Mobile is not the left or Barcelona depends on a decision by the GSMA block, but the opinion of his main prescriber will have a decisive weight. That meeting, which Cordon made the introductions took place after that, this week, the mayor kept another preparatory meeting with the cord itself and the president of Fira, Josep Lluís Bonet in Montjuïc, where they reviewed the present fair and future prospects in a key industry for the local economy. The main challenge is that the Mobile remains in Barcelona for many years because, beyond the impact of 436 million induced city economy, represents a third of the turnover of the Fira.

In the afternoon was the time of the photo. Colau made the formal proposal to Hoffman renew the capital of Barcelona and the Mobile World Congress, a proposal must decide who they have in their possession for months delivery. The offer is progressed La Vanguardia on 4 June. In her commitment to the L9 metro is fully operational between Fira and the airport during the congress of 2016. The change in the direction of traffic in the vicinity of the hotel Arts (one of the main properties of the great leaders reiterated ; near him a heliport will be enabled) or creating a special lane for Congress, as was done in the Olympics, are some of the new proposals for Barcelona.

The offer takes into account security: Guardia Urbana bring 250 additional agents. It is also proposed that Barcelona Tourism count, and in 2016, a body of free volunteer labor costs provide assistance and information at hotels, public places and areas related to the conference. Although without doubt one of the most important aspects is the hotels. One clause sets the commitment to ensure the organization of the event at least 29,000 rooms for conference participants. With regard to prices, in 2019 and 2020, rates will increase in the CPI Spanish and, in any case, the rise may exceed 3%. From 2020 could increase the number of rooms reserved in 500 each year, reaching 31,000 in 2023.

At the board meeting balance of activity Mobile World Capital and driven initiatives in entrepreneurship programs, education and smart cities it was made. The foundation aims to create “added value” that Barcelona is the capital of the world of mobile technology such encouraging more social and extending them to all citizens programs, an aspect that Colau wants to promote.

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