Ele-Espana 2009 Exhibition

Report

The exhibition took place in the main exhibition center of Barcelona which is located in the heart of the city, at piazza Espana. The 3 days of event (17-19 June 2009 went smoothly in all aspects mainly thanks to the professional teams of the exhibition center that accommodates all major events in Catalonia and dozens of international important exhibitions every year.

We used Hall 1 which is right on the piazza Espana and seen from everywhere. The area has easy access from the airport (15 minutes by car) or underground from everywhere, and many hotels from 2 to 5 stars are around as well as dozens of restaurants for every taste.

As reported pre-event, due to the heavy recession in Spain (which hit mainly the fast growing building sector) the exhibition was considerably reduced in relation to last edition. Nevertheless, the exhibitors benefited excellent turn up of visitors. Even we, the organizers were surprised. Over 2240 visitors in 3 days including 14% from abroad was really a nice surprise. The non Spanish visitors were half from Europe (from all European countries including east Europe with heavy participation of Italian, German and British elevator people. There were visitors from US as well as Latin America. Another large part was from Asia (including a delegation of 12 people from Korea Geochang region). The Korean delegation headed by Mr. Yang Dong – in (the mayor of Geochang county) held a meeting with Joseph Stier, IAEE, discussing future options of co-operation between the county and IAEE both on exhibitions and congresses like Elevcon Asia.  

The enclosed photos show some general views from the exhibition and visitors as well as the meeting with the Korean delegation.

The 5^th edition of Ele-Espana is planned to take place in the same pavilion on 15-17 June 2011.

Written by J Stier. IAEE, 21 June 2009

With deep sadness I inform that my dear friend and the one that assisted to make Ele-Espana happen from day one, Jordi Corominas was taken away from us after a hard illness. His spirit was at the exhibition that he loved so much. The family Corominas even though were broken from this sad event went on and performed the event mainly his beloved wife Mercedes.