The Diplomat
The Minister of Industry, Trade and Tourism, Reyes Maroto, received yesterday at the Moncloa Complex the Secretary of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), Zurab Pololikashvili, and the Director General of the Madrid Trade Fair (IFEMA), Eduardo López-Puertas, with the aim of coordinating the agenda of the Madrid International Tourism Trade Fair (FITUR), which will be held starting May 19.
As reported by the Ministry through its Twitter account, the minister met with “UNWTO and IFEMA officials to coordinate the agenda for FITUR 2021, to be held starting May 19”. “We are on course for FITUR 2021, the first face-to-face global tourism fair since the start of the pandemic”, Zurab Pololikashvili declared via the same social network. “We are working with IFEMA and the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism for the definitive and safe take-off of tourism. FITUR will mean the rebirth of tourism”, he added.
FITUR 2021 will be held from May 19 to 23 and will have all the necessary resources to make the event “a safe space from the health point of view,” according to assurances made last February by the administrations and institutions involved in the organization.
In addition to the mandatory PCR tests at source and on-site rapid tests, a protocol has been developed to organize the flow of attendees and their mobility, establish capacity controls, guarantee safety distances, eliminate direct contacts through digital registration and incorporate the latest technologies for health safety and counting of attendees. Likewise, all IFEMA pavilions will be equipped with a ventilation system that will guarantee 100% outside air and will have the capacity to renew all the air in the pavilion in just over 20 minutes.
