







That is the ninth year in successive whereas the International Exhibition for Hospitality & Hotel Equipment comes to be the center of meeting the specialists in the hospitability world, and to be an occasion for communicating between the producers and consumers, as well as, to be the main station for the interested professionals for having up-to-date equipment and technologies for the hospitality industry.
The event will occupy an area of 9000 m2, with about 200 Local, Arabic and International exhibitors specialized in the following domains:
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A comprehensive advertising campaign is accompanying the event containing the mass media which cover the whole Syrian cities in addition to the main cities in the states of region which ensure achieving all economical and tourist activities in Syria, Regional Countries and Arab Gulf States, utilizing the followings:
billboards, targeted invitations, advertising coverage in radio, television, official gazettes and the pioneering magazines in the region.
Up-on that, it is expected to have about /15000/ visitors during the days of the event from different fields of specialization as professionals & decision makers of:
Within the advertising campaign, accompanying the event, Hospex'11 provides many opportunities of advertisement and commercial sponsorship which ensure to exhibitors the chance to support their marketing plans and their wide circulations in the markets of region.
Hospex 2011 provides special prices of accommodation in the most important hotels in Damascus for every and each participant and visitor of the event,
In addition to authorizing specialist company for shipment and customs clearance to facilitate import and re-export the merchandises related to the event.
Hospex'10 has been covered an area of 7500 m2 with about 104 participant from Turkey, Germany, Italy, Tunisia, Jordan, Lebanon, U.A.E. and Syria was participating at Hospex'10 to represent more than 600 international and local brand names.
Moreover, about 10300 visitors have attended the event that is of specialties, and of the tourist & economical activities. The information recorded at the reception department has been a proof of the distributions of specialty sectors of visitors according to the following data:
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The nationalities of the visitors have varied between visitors from all over the world, in addition to the local visitors according to the following percentages:
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Syrian tourism Investments have been witnessed in between 2009 - 2010 a remarkable development based on the following facts and figures:
The number of the projects which started the active service is / 167 / tourist establishment until July 2010 containing / 36 / hotel and / 131 / restaurant a cost of about / 150 / million $.
Where the number of hotel beds, which entered service / 1833 / bed until July 2010 a growth rate of + 35% over the same period in 2009, reflecting a marked improvement in the growth of hotel capacity and it is expected to accelerate further improvement in 2010, beside to that, the total number of restaurant chairs, which entered service / 18811 / restaurant chair until July 2010 and a growth rate of + 54.3%. for the same period in 2009.
As for tourism projects under construction:
The number of projects that got the license / 64 / project until July 2010, an investment cost of about / 480 / million $, includes/ 40 / hotel containing / 5093 / bed and / 23 / restaurant containing / 24654 / restaurant chair until July 2010 and knowing that there are 29 projects applied for an investment license a cost of about one billion U.S. Dollar is currently completing the procedures of licensing.
Accordingly, the total number of the active and under construction projects are 231 projects during the first seven months of 2010 a growth rate of + 46% over the same period in 2009.
In this way the total number of tourism projects under construction 564 projects with 89330 hotel bed and 318524 restaurant chair with an investment cost of 6.5 billion $.
In addition to that, the total investment cost of the active tourism institutions around 4.5 billion $ includes 52754 bed and 343472 restaurant chair, and thus the total tourism investments ( in service and under construction) about 11 billion dollar.

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