Nuremberg trade fairs canceled – hotels and restaurants suffer particularly

Created: 01/17/2022, 02:31 p.m

The Nuremberg Toy Fair took place for the last time in 2020.

(Archive image) © Daniel Karmann/dpa

The next shock after the Christkindlesmarkt: the toy fair was cancelled.

Hotels and restaurants in the region are particularly affected.

Nuremberg – Omikron puts a spanner in the works for all organizers.

Nuremberg* also has to cancel, postpone or hold all events and trade fairs online due to the variant, which is spreading quickly.

As a result, the hotels and restaurants are missing numerous guests.

Will trade fairs change fundamentally in the future? 

Numerous exhibitors from all over the world were looking forward to the Nuremberg Toy Fair* in February.

But it was canceled and will only take place online.

The reason: omicron.

The "Biofach" trade fair was also postponed to the summer, and the "BrauBeviale" was cancelled.

A blow to the hotels and restaurants that had hoped for the guests.

This is reported

. 

Nuremberg restaurants and hotels have to lose a lot of cancellations 

Toni Behringer from Behringer's Cityhotel Nuremberg is slowly shocking: "We didn't believe in it anymore anyway." He had to cope with the cancellation of the Christkindlesmarkt * last year. According to

, he will continue to run his hotel

to a minimum because he does not assume that there will be a trade fair at all in the coming months. That's why only a few employees help out in his hotel, he does everything else himself. 

The ZweiSinn restaurant is also not very optimistic when it comes to trade fairs in the near future.

The manager Carina Burkhardt is currently receiving several table cancellations.

"Of course there were also larger tables, large groups and large events, where we also prepared things and wrote offers." For them it was a disaster that the toy fair was canceled for the second time. 

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Will the fairs change permanently?

Udo Raab, chief economist at the Nuremberg Chamber of Industry and Commerce, can imagine that trade fairs will change permanently, as

reports.

"I think that the addition of digital formats will almost become the norm." This is also a cost factor for companies.

But natural networking could fall by the wayside.

As Spielwarenmesse eG reports, more and more participants have canceled the fair in recent weeks.

She had no choice but to cancel the Nuremberg Toy Fair 2022 and move it to digital.