As the curtains fell on the third edition of EBACE (the European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition) in Geneva last month, the organizers could feel confident that the strong support for the event in this most difficult of years and most challenging of futures for aviation bodes well for its stature as a significant fixture in the world aerospace calendar. This year the show could be said to have outgrown the label “new” and acquired a new one: “established.”
The final visitor tally stood at 5,984, a healthy 24-percent increase over last year’s attendance tally (4,824). Attendance at the show’s debut in 2001 was 3,620. Exhibitor and exhibit-space totals were both up this year, with the exhibitor count rising by 11 percent to 248 (up from 219 last year) and the occupied exhibit space climbing by more than 13 percent to 615 booth spaces measuring 10 feet by 10 feet (up from 532 last year).
