New date for Utazás fair

Hungexpo announced that Utazás (Travel) 2007, the largest Hungarian travel exhibition, will be held between 29 March - 1 April, two weeks later than the "normal" date. The reason for the postponement is that the originally planned first day, Thursday, would be 15 March, a national holiday in Hungary when many people take a long break. The preceding and the following week coincide with other international travel fairs (ITB - Berlin, MITT - Moscow) , while during the first week of March another exhibition is being staged in Hungexpo's Pavilion A. Hungexpo consulted with the organisers of other travel fairs in the countryside to avoid further overlaps and Hungexpo also promised that for 2008, the date of the event will be fully discussed with the travel trade and the early March date would be reserved for the tourism fair.
The Association of Hungarian Travel Agents and Tour Operators is not satisfied with the decision, but accepts Hungexpo's reasoning. Outbound travel agents prefer Utazás to be held in early March so that they have time to modify pending contracts with partners according to demand.

SYMA event hall opened

One of the largest and most modern event halls in Central Europe opened in Budapest on 1 September. The SYMA Sport- and Event Hall, located close to the Puskás Ferenc Stadium, is a multifunctional complex of three connecting buildings with a floor area of 300,000 square metres, which can host a total of 20,000 people for concerts, sport events, conferences and exhibitions.

TriGránit eyes Montenegro

TriGránit (investor and developer of Westend City Center and Palace of Arts, among others) is planning an enormous, 2 billion Euro investment in Montenegro. The investor is interested in the central section of Montenegro's coastal beach area where TriGránit and the government would develop high quality tourism facilities. Those hotels and other projects would extend the tourism season to 10 months and would represent 10,000 new jobs for the newly-born republic, the annual GDP of which is around 1.6 billion Euro.

SKAL-East Hungary founded