UFI
The UFI , formerly also Union des Foires Internationales , Union of International Fairs and Association of International Trade Fairs , is the interest group of the world's largest organizers of trade fairs and owner of trade fair sites. The association is based in Paris .
Goal setting
The UFI sees itself as a communication, marketing and training platform for its members. Studies are also carried out on the industry and its interests are represented by regional associations.
development
The association was founded on April 15, 1925 in Milan by the then 20 largest European trade fair organizers as Union des Foires Internationales . After the Second World War , she resumed her work at the new headquarters in Paris in 1947. With the admission of non-European members, the organization grew to 99 members from 40 countries by 1975, including numerous members from the Eastern Bloc . Global growth efforts continued, so that the UFI had 153 members in 1991, 110 of them European members. In the following years, other national and international associations in the industry as well as owners of exhibition grounds were able to join the interest group. In 2003 it was renamed UFI .
Currently (2019) the association has 786 members who hold more than a thousand trade fair events. 858 trade fair events receive the UFI approved event seal of approval created by the association .