The canceled ITB not only has organizational problems for most tourism professionals – the financial questions also make us nervous
We know that many exhibitors and visitors are already arriving and have often been stopped by the message somewhere in Europe.
The situation today:
The ITB will not take place for the first time in 2020 after 54 years.
Insiders speak of a loss of a three-digit million euro amount.
The question now is who pays what to whom and when.
Tourism-Insider made a quick phone survey:
1. The Berlin Senate meets on Tuesday on this topic.
2. On Wednesday is a possible compensation issue in the German federal cabinet.

3. We can only recommend all exhibitors and visitors to list all costs and collect all receipts, bills and tickets
Exhibitors should contact their contacts at Messe Berlin as soon as possible. The many sub-exhibitors have to speak to their respective main exhibitor and, above all, have to read these contracts and agreements carefully and have them checked by their legal department.

First, unconfirmed voices from Berlin and federal politics, but also from the business associations, consider a fair compensation policy to be possible.

Unexplained and currently still not addressed anywhere is a possible compensation for the many trade visitors from all over the world, who without a stand only traveled to Berlin for talks or wanted to travel

Messe Berlin, as the organizer of the ITB, said in a press release last friday, that it was not possible to postpone the ITB that there was no other date on which all halls could be used.

Now a long-cherished silent wish of many tourist experts could come alive again:
To organize the ITB in Frankfurt at least this year, since the IAA is about to depart and the halls there would be free on this date.

But for that, the two trade fair companies and politics would have to jump over their own shadow !!