One of the biggest trade fairs in the world is held right now in Barcelona, The World Mobile Congress, where leaders in the mobile technology and cell phone market gather to network and collaborate!
Read about the first day in this article!
Hotels and venues in Barcelona are telling us that they notice a decrease in the number of booked hotelnights, the corporate events are less than earlier years etc. The biggest shock though was that the mega player Nokia decided not to have a stand inside the fair this year, but to outside in the pavillion only… But other big players like Ericsson, Samsung etc are here to win market and despite that a handful skipped the fair this year there is plenty of good news to be found in the mobile industry! Read more about in Businessweek!
In the trade fair area of Plaza Espanya another interesting venue is also located, the old bullfighter stadium! Barcelona has had two stadiums until a couple of years ago when the catalans took the decicion to make one of them into a comercial centre (as they are not passionate for this activity). They lifted the whole bullfighting arena 3 metres up in the air and started reconstructions! Within short they will transform this scene of the crime into a comercial shopping mall and hopefully attract more tourists than the typical trade fair visitor to the zone!
