Christmas starts at the Trade Fair

AEFI exhibition districts offer a range of trade fairs for the upcoming holidays as well as business opportunities for participating companies

Christmas will be here in a month, the lights are already illuminating the city centres and the air is full of excitement and the magic of the upcoming holidays. For everyone who wants to experience this special time of year and is looking for original gift ideas, ornaments for the tree, ideas for the crib, decorations for the home and table and handmade products, there’s a great number of dates with trade fairs held in AEFI-member exhibition districts to choose from.

There are lots of foods and wines on offer, but also a packed schedule of activities and workshops for all ages and above all an important business opportunity for companies that take part.

Here are all the dates for November and December:

• UDINE E GORIZIA FIERE, IDEANATALE, Udine 14-17 November 2019 http://www.ideanatale.it/034/Edizione2019
• FIERA DI FORLÌ, NATALISSIMO, Forlì 16-17 November 2019 http://www.idealfiere.com/natalissimo.html
• CREMONAFIERE, COUNTRY CHRISTMAS, Cremona 29 November – 1 December 2019 http://www.countrychristmas.it/index.php/en/
• CESENA FIERA, ABILMENTE CHRISTMAS, Cesena 29 November – 1 December 2019 https://www.abilmente.org/it/christmas
• FIERA MILANO, AF-L’ARTIGIANO IN FIERA, Milan 30 November – 8 December 2019 https://artigianoinfiera.it/it/
• E.A. FIERA DI FOGGIA, IL VILLAGGIO DI NATALE, Foggia 6-26 December 2019 https://ilvillaggiodinatalefoggia.it/
• FIERA INTERNAZIONALE DELLA SARDEGNA, FIERA NATALE, Cagliari 6-23 December 2019 https://www.fieradellasardegna.it/
• LINGOTTO FIERE, XMAS COMICS & GAMES, Turin 14-15 December https://www.lingottofiere.it/event/it-912/xmas-comics-amp-games
• FERRARA FIERE CONGRESSI, WINTER WONDERLAND, Ferrara 21-22 December, 25 December – 6 January, 11-12 January and 18-19 January
  https://www.winterwonderlanditalia.com/

AEFI – Associazione Esposizioni e Fiere Italiane, a private non-profit Association, was established in 1983 with the goal of generating synergies between the most important Italian exhibition districts. AEFI currently has 36 member exhibition districts, which organise over 1,000 events a year over an overall exhibition area of 4.2 million square metres. Nearly all international and national trade fairs which take place each year in Italy are held in AEFI-member exhibition districts.

AEFI is a privileged partner for operators and institutions alike, and its role is to support members through the development of activities and programmes in the sphere of training, marketing, promotion and research, as well as to provide services for trade fairs through the activities of its Committees: Exhibition Hub Technical Committee, Legal-Administrative Committee, Internationalisation Committee and Trade Fairs Network Committee. On the internationalisation front, AEFI supports members thanks to agreements with strategic markets. To date, partnerships have been agreed with Iran, Taiwan, Lebanon, India, Thailand and South Africa, with AmCham, the American Chamber of Commerce in Italy, with CENTREX, the International Exhibition Statistics Union and with EUPIC-EU Project Innovation Center. A memorandum of understanding has been signed with SACE and SIMEST.

AEFI has promoted the foundation of ISFCert, the Certification Institute for Exhibition Industry Statistics which, through rigorous methodologies, enables Italian organisers to present and recognise standardised data, in the name of transparency and reliability. AEFI represents Italian trade fairs in UFI – Union of International Fairs.