Fira de Barcelona, with its modern facilities and the attractiveness of the Catalan capital and its metropolitan area as a welcoming place, continues to promote the growth of international fairs. Seafood, the largest exhibition in the world dedicated to seafood, will be held for the third time at the Fira Gran Via de l'Hospitalet de Llobregat venue between April 23 and 25 after arriving from Brussels in 2022. Since then it has not stopped growing. “It will be the largest edition in history. We are very hopeful. Coming to Barcelona is an opportunity to grow,” said Wynter Courmont, vice president of Diversified Communications, the organizing entity of the event, this Thursday during her presentation.
Specifically, Seafood will occupy 51,277 net square meters of exhibition space, which represents 4% more than in 2023. At the moment, there are already 2,050 companies from 84 countries that have confirmed their participation. “There are more than last year at this time,” Courmont said.
The most optimistic forecast, confessed the vice president of Diversified Communications, is to “almost double the number of attendees.” Some 34,000 professionals attended the event last year, when the historical record of attendees was already reached.
“Seafood is a successful project. Every year it gets better and we are happy,” celebrated the general director of Fira de Barcelona, Constantí Serrallonga. “Barcelona is the ideal setting to grow,” he added with his sights set on the expansion of the Fira Gran Via venue, whose works are already underway.
Serrallonga acknowledged that this beginning of the year, with the Mobile World Congress, the ISE and Alimentaria, is posing “a challenge for Fira and for the city.” These are three events that have hundreds of thousands of attendees and whose reach is global. According to the general director of Fira, Barcelona is “certainly among the five most important exhibition venues in Europe.” For Serrallonga, Seafood is in the “top five” of the events organized by Fira de Barcelona.
