The Caravaning, Motoring and Tourism exhibition

Exhibition name:The Caravaning, Motoring and Tourism exhibition

Organiser:Messe Stuttgart International

venue:Stuttgart fair grounds

Detail: The Caravaning, Motoring and Tourism exhibition CMT is Europe's largest consumer travel exhibition. Tour operators, travel agents, holiday destinations, manufacturers of caravans and mobile homes, and specialist holiday companies will have the opportunity to showcase their tourism products and services to German visitors and buyers and are encouraged to take advantage of the qualified assistance of the U.S. co-exhibitors and pavilion organizer, who are represented at the Visit USA pavilion. The U.S. Commercial Service recommends participation at CMT for those U.S. suppliers who have travel and tourism products suitable for the European market and are interested in making trade and press contacts and doing business with European tour operators as well as reaching the German consumer travel market.   At CMT, which took place from January 17 - 25, 2004, there were 26 U.S. exhibitors out of 1,400 exhibitors from 81 countries. A total of 200,000 visitors attended. 9% of the CMT visitors and 160 exhibitors took part in the special exhibition "Fahrrad und Erlebnis Reisen" (Cycling and Adventure travel) which took place at the same time. Another special exhibition Golf and Wellness Travel will also be conducted again next year. In 2003, over 1,180,000 German travelers visited the United States and up to May 2004, 520,000 Germans visited the United States. http://www.messe-stuttgart.de/