Fewer visitors, more exciting ideas.

Around 20 percent, the number of visitors to Cebit fallen, even with the exhibitors, there was a sharp decline - still holds the organizer of the exhibition a success. Companies have taken new courage and Hanover with full order books to leave.

 

What were the periods when it at the Cebit in certain halls reinkam not anymore! The crowd in the corridors was so great that people with claustrophobia only the width could search. The golden age for the Cebit, however, are long gone. For years, falling visitor and exhibitor numbers. And this trend is 2009, the year of the global economic crisis, exacerbated.

20 percent fewer visitors, reported by Deutsche Messe AG. Instead 495,000 arrived last year as this year only 400,000, said the Cebit Board of Deutsche Messe AG, Ernst Raue. The exhibitor numbers (4300, represents a decrease of 25 per cent) and the rented exhibition space (200,000, equivalent to minus 20 percent) declined.

Raue was nevertheless satisfied with the course of the fair. "A large part of the 4300 companies from 69 countries, at the Cebit take new courage," he said. Many exhibitors and visitors leaving Hanover with new hope, full order books and a solid base for new business. "

Raue said, with a view to the fairgrounds on the application shown by an "innovative, fair break." It should have been sold well, Raue said, adding: "The Cebit killer may act as a crisis."

In fact, surprised that it
at the Cebit abnormally reduced many new impulses to see there. Among the attractions of the Cebit this year included digital readers - also known as E-Book. At the fair
A German company has a Linux reader to the Kindle, Sony and Co. will be competing.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU), had the show on Monday night officially opened. At the start of the fair was also the governor of this Cebit partner country of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, in the Lower Saxony state capital has come --
for some visitors to the actual climax of the show. The Cebit 2010, one day will be shortened.