The 47,000 total, released by Messe-Dusseldorf, was blamed on a train strike in the city today, the final day of this year's iteration. Last year's show had to weather similar strikes on days two and three.
Despite the 4.1% dip in visitors versus 2023, Messe highlighted a "positive response among both exhibitors and visitors across the board" to the debut of its ProSpirits concept, which hosted 420 spirits exhibitors from 40 countries. The figure for the number of countries that visitors travelled from was also down, by 4.2% to 135. Messe claimed, however, that "the extremely high
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