Caravan, motor and tourism
The Caravan - Motor - Touristik (CMT) is a German public trade fair for tourism and leisure. It always takes place on nine days in January on the grounds of Messe Stuttgart . In 2018, 265,000 people attended the CMT. In 2018 the world's largest public trade fair for tourism and leisure celebrated its 50th birthday.
history
The CMT took place for the first time in 1968. At that time still under the name "Motor-Sport-Freizeit". In 1971 there was the CCT - Caravan, Camping, Tourismus in Stuttgart. The CMT has been taking place under its current name since 1972.
Since the 1990s, the CMT has been continuously expanded to include subsidiary events:
- Golf Travel (1995)
- Bicycle and Adventure Travel (2000)
- Wellness Travel (2003)
- Cruise and Ship Travel (2004)
- Hiking (2005)
Subject areas
The CMT comprises three large exhibition areas:
- C (caravan) - caravans, motorhomes, camping
- M (motor) - caravan towing vehicles, SUVs, family vans, e-mobility
- T (tourism) - countries, regions, tour operators, travel agencies, bus operators, airlines, hotels
particularities
The Corps Touristique (association of foreign national tourism organizations and railways in Germany) awarded the CMT the “Best Travel Fair” prize for the eighth time among the German holiday fairs in 2016, and the CMT came second three times.
Every year the CMT has different partner countries and regions that are the focus of the event.
- Partner country 2017: Albania
- Partner region 2017: Northern Black Forest
- Partner countries 2018: Panama and Hungary
- Partner region 2018: Trentino
Daughter events
- Bicycle & adventure travel with hiking: Bicycle, adventure, hiking, GPS, accessories, bicycle course. Starting in 2018, the bicycle and adventure trips with hiking will be supplemented by topics such as hang gliding and paragliding, paragliding and kite surfing. The thermal trade fair that has taken place in Sindelfingen to date will then become part of the event.
- Golf & wellness trips: golf, wellness, driving range, accessories
- Cruise & Ship Travel: Cruise, Ship Travel
numbers and facts
The CMT is one of the largest events at Messe Stuttgart. It occupies all nine halls of the exhibition grounds with a gross exhibition area of over 105,000 square meters. In 2018, the CMT will be the first event ever to occupy the new Hall 10 at Messe Stuttgart. The exhibition area grows to 120,000 square meters.
Certified visitor numbers
- 2015: 239,611
- 2016: 219,331
- 2017: 234,942
Certified exhibitor numbers
- 2015: 2,025
- 2016: 2,082
- 2017: 2,035
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ [1] Official final report CMT 2018, accessed on February 5, 2018
- ↑ [2] ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Press release from Messe Stuttgart, accessed on July 27, 2017.
- ↑ Press release from Messe Stuttgart, accessed on July 27, 2017. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 5, 2017 ; accessed on July 27, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Website of the Society for Voluntary Control of Fair and Exhibition Statistics (FKM) ( Memento of the original from January 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (evaluated on July 27, 2017)
