50,000 Tourism Experts Gather To Chart Post-Covid Recovery
05/19/21 AT 11:06 AM
Some 50,000 tourism professionals from across the globe gathered in Madrid on Wednesday for a five-day fair, one of the first such in-person events in Europe in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Organisers of the FITUR International Tourism Fair are expecting to welcome a total of 100,000 visitors through Sunday, half of them members of the public who will have access to the event during the weekend. It s important to take part, it s the first in-person fair taking place in Europe, said Aleksandra Desyatskova, of the Saint Petersburg-based Tari Travel Group. Models dressed for the Canary Islands carnival perform at the International Tourism Fair in Madrid Photo: AFP / JAVIER SORIANO