Italy staged 915 trade fair events in 2025, five percent more than in 2024

Italy staged 915 trade fair events in 2025, five percent more than in 2024, and roughly 11 million square metres of exhibition space were sold over the year. The system rests on a small operating base: about 200 companies and 4,000 employees, on an annual turnover of 1.5 billion euros. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, which compiled the figures from AEFI data, places Italy fourth worldwide for installed exhibition space, behind China, the United States and Germany. Read together, the numbers describe a market in which a compact set of venue operators and organisers carries a very wide annual calendar. For a company weighing an Italian season, that concentration means the counterparties are few and identifiable, while the 11 million square metres sold set the scale against which any single event's floor space can be judged. The figures cover trade fair events held in Italy during 2025.