Horeca 21st exhibition kicks off in the beginning of April with 350 exhibitors and 18 thousand expected visitors

Horeca's 21st exhibition will kick off between 1 and 4 April and will occupy a surface area of 15 thousand square meters at the Biel exhibition centre.  Some 350 companies will participate in this year's event which is expected to attract more than 18000 visitors.  The exhibition includes a number of food competition including a cooking event in which 200 competitors and 12 jury members have signed up, a hospitality competition with 100 participants and 10 jurors considered to be amongst te experts in their fields.  Other competitions include an olive oil competition in which will take part some 50 different olive oil products to be seen by 8 jurors, in addition to a gourmet space with international chefs and tasters.  Horeca includes three section allocated for food, packaging, interior design, hygiene, technology, bakery, nutrition, food, coffee and tea, consultation, recruitment, training and international pavilions.
Horeca organisaers, Hospitality Services, noted that the exhibition is now almost fully booked and had reached its 80% registration capacity some three months ago.  The organisers attribute this to the high reputation of this event which now attracts exhibitors from Poland, Italy, the USA, Turkey, France, Holland, Jordan, Iran and Lebanon.
Source: Al-Nahar 26 February 2014