This year´s Venice International Boat Show/NauticShow has welcomed 25.000 visitors. The popular Italian exhibition was running from 13-15 and 20-22 April at Saint Giuliano Park in the mainland of Venice, Italy.
The show presented around 220 yachts of up to 12 meters, and more than 170 exhibitors. Despite the bad weather, good results on sales and contacts were registered by exhibitors.
The Venice Boat Show took place in 120.000 square meters of exhibition area, 360 mt. of wharf (250 mt. last year). Compared to the 2011 edition the show increased more than 30% the number of yachts and exhibitors: these data confirm the efficacy of the focus on the small-medium boats.
“It’s too soon to affirm that the market is raising”, says Lorenzo Pollicardo, former UCINA secretary general and coordinator of the Venice Boat Show, “but the Venice Boat Shows confirms the fact that the market of boats of up to 12 m (40ft) is successfully facing the economical turbulences”
The Show hosted the first stage of Cluster Club, the European project by IPA Adriatic CBC, which aim is to foster the cooperation between nautical companies of the Adriatic area; more than 300 operators from Italy, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Albania, Serbia and Greece participated to B2B meetings.
The Venice International Boat Show/NauticShow is the result of the union of the two main boat show of the Italian Adriatic Sea: the Venice International Boat Show by Expo Venice and the NauticShow by Veneto Exhibitions.