Fashion Week is the first date on the reopening calendar of this facility after the health emergency | Feboda will be held between November 6 and 8
The Tenerife Fairgrounds will resume its activity from October, after having had to paralyze all fairs and congresses in recent months due to the new coronavirus pandemic. This was announced yesterday by the Tenerife Council, which reported that Fashion Week, which will be held between October 1 and 3, will be the first appointment of the new calendar of this facility. The programming will continue with Feboda, the fair dedicated to wedding events, which will take place between November 6 and 8.
The island director of Economic Development of Tenerife, Ermitas Moreira, announced yesterday to companies interested in participating in these fairs the characteristics of “these meetings with which we resume the activity, adapting to the protocols and prevention measures established by Public Health and the Government of the Canary Islands “.
In this way, the Fairgrounds will reopen its doors to host the Tenerife Fashion Week celebration, an event that replaces the International Fashion Fair, which should have been held as every year in April. but it had to be canceled due to the health emergency.
The security measures due to the coronavirus have forced the Fair Institution to make a series of modifications in the programming and in the format of this meeting. On the first day there will be training sessions and round tables, to “later continue the fair activity in a showroom format, in the multipurpose room of the Fairgrounds”, says Moreira.
Another novelty will take place during the day on Saturday, October 3, when Tenerife “will become at different points in a great catwalk with fashion shows in open spaces, bringing this sector closer to the residents of the entire Island.”
As for Feboda, which normally takes place every year in the month of October, in 2020 it will be held in November. With it, it is intended “to recover this meeting as the benchmark for weddings and celebrations in Tenerife and the Canary Islands, in general,” adds the insular director.
However, it will have different characteristics, since the vast majority of links have had to be postponed even beyond 2021. In this way, the Fair Institution has offered companies interested in participating in this exhibition a 50% discount. In addition, it will include a tourist strategy focused on strengthening the network of companies dedicated to organizing events “giving projection to the Island as an ideal place for holding all kinds of activities in a safe environment,” Moreira stressed.
But Fashion Week and Feboda are not the only meetings that Moreira hopes the Fairgrounds will host in the coming months. If the health situation allows it, the Cabildo also plans to hold other events such as the Tenerife Children’s Park (PIT), which is traditionally held from the end of December until Reyes, and Exposaldo, which occupies the Campus every year in January.
Moreiras explains that, in the first case, it is a fair that cannot be missed, since it is a benchmark for the Island, but the current health situation requires modifications that have yet to be finalized. The same happens with Expolsaldo, a fair in which the crowds, at least in this next edition, must disappear, for which the Institution values extending the days of celebration.
However, other fairs that had to be canceled in recent months due to the pandemic, such as GastroCanarias, will not return until next year.
Regarding the security protocols established in the “new normal” decreed by the Government of the Canary Islands, the Fairgrounds “has been updated, also following the recommendations of the general protocol designed by the Union of International Fairs (UFI) with controls established in accesses, general rules for exhibitors, visitor routes, signs, among other measures “, according to the manager of the Tenerife Fair Institution, Ignacio Domínguez, also present at the meeting.
The fairground is now resuming its traditional activity, but it must be remembered that it was not closed during the months of confinement, since it had to house a field hospital with 180 beds, which did not come into operation.
Source: eldia.es