2. FOREIGN BUSINESS DIVISION
Every year, HMC organizes numerous joint participations in
trade fairs abroad, most of which are implemented on be-
half of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology
and the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture. The main
focus was on the maritime, medical technology, oil and nat-
ural gas and hospitality sectors. During the reporting year,
HMC implemented 18 joint participations on behalf of the
Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology and four on
behalf of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture. The
highlight of the foreign business activities was the success-
ful implementation of the German participations at the Arab
Health (266 exhibitors) and Marintec China (more than 100
exhibitors).
3. CCH DIVISION
There were 121 (2014: 141, 2013: 128) national and inter-
national conferences, conventions, exhibitions and presen-
tations hosted at the CCH in the 2015 financial year. The
CCH received fewer bookings in the corporate segment in
particular as companies preferred new, more appealing ex-
hibition spaces. Attendance figures mirrored this trend, with
the number of participants falling from 213,588 in 2014 to
164,169 in 2015.
As in previous years, medical events as well as annual gen-
eral meetings, member and company meetings accounted
for the lion’s share of the convention and conference busi-
ness. Events of note include the 32nd Chaos Communi-
cation Congress (18,000 participants); the 96th German
X-Ray Congress (7,500 participants); the 67th Congress
of the German Society for Urology (7,500 participants);
EANM’15 – the 28th Annual Congress of the European
Association of Nuclear Medicine (5,500 participants); and
the 62nd Annual General Meeting of Deutsche Lufthansa
AG (1,800 participants).
The number of cultural and social events fell by 2 to 104
compared with the previous year. Visitor numbers totalled
164,587 (2014: 176,513).
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