Venues

A total of 75 exhibitions, 22 congresses and more than 844 other events were staged at the Basel, Lausanne and Zurich locations in 2017. Together, they attracted some 2.3 million visitors.

Details of the MCH exhibitions

The 75 exhibitions comprise 24 MCH Group exhibitions and 51 third-party exhibitions. They attracted a total of 12,650 exhibiting companies and around 1.7 million visitors. They occupied a gross exhibition area of more than one million square metres in all – equivalent to around 160 football pitches. A large number of exhibitions were staged for the first time, including BRICKLIVE (in parallel to Muba) in Basel, Ilmac Lausanne and the Zurich Game Show.

Mehr Weniger

The Congress Center Basel can look back on a strong year with a large number of international congresses, including the World Congress of Surgery, Basel Life with EMBO (an organisation of 1,700 leading researchers) and the Linux Cloud Foundry Summit Europe. One of the many highlights was the ITI World Symposium with 5,000 participants from 90 countries.

Mehr Weniger

The two Musical Theaters in Basel and Zurich also recorded gratifying occupancy rates, with a total of 381 performances and 353,450 visitors.

Mehr Weniger

Messe Basel

Details of the venues

Messe Basel / Congress Center Basel / Musical Theater

Messe Basel

2017	Number	Exhibitors	Visitors	GEA 1)	Duration 2)
Messe Basel	30	5 266	813 165	533 219	116

Exhibitions	21	4 881	747 865	501 719	81
MCH exhibitions & joint ventures	12	3 797	646 235	401 189	58
Third-party exhibitions	9	1 084	101 630	100 530	23

Hall rentals & events	9	385	65 300	31 500	35

Congress Center Basel	164	615	128 087	27 161	294

Conferences	22	615	17 260	27 161	66
with an exhibition	21	615	16 872	27 161	63
without an exhibition	1		388		3

Other events	142		110 827		228
Corporate events	124		63 856		166
Public events	10		46 520		51
Small-scale events	8		451		11

Musical Theater / Events	185		177 050

1) Gross exhibition area in m 2

2) No. of days (without assembly/dismantling)

Third-party exhibitions

Absolventenmesse
Auto Basel
Basler Mineralientage
Basler Sammlerbörse
Blickfang
Extasia
FANTASY Basel
Swiss Office Management
TRESOR comtemporary craft

Beaulieu Lausanne

2017	Number	Exhibitors	Visitors	GEA 1)	Duration 2)
Beaulieu Lausanne	26	2 094	320 982	190 040	80

Exhibitions	19	2 094	313 187	190 040	70
MCH exhibitions & joint ventures	5	1 266	235 879	103 731	31
Third-party exhibitions	14	828	77 308	86 309	39

Hall rentals & events	7		7 795		10

1) Gross exhibition area in m 2

2) No. of days (without assembly/dismantling)

Third-party exhibitions

Baby&Kid Planet
Bourse internationale aux armes de Lausanne
Dog'n'Cat Swiss Festival
Foire aux Vinyles
International Gaming Show
Japan Impact
Junior Days
Lausanne Art Fair
Les Puces du Design.ch
Man's World
Salon du Mariage et des Amoureux
Salon du vélo et de la mobilité durable
SWISS EXPO
World of Fitness

Messe Zürich / Theater 11 Zürich

Messe Zürich

2017	Number	Exhibitors	Visitors	GEA 1)	Duration 2)
Messe Zürich	340	5 675	644 973	425 673	153

Exhibitions	35	5 675	609 713	360 643	105
MCH exhibitions & joint ventures	7	1 216	321 188	111 035	32
Third-party exhibitions	28	4 459	288 525	249 608	73

Hall rentals & events	13		31 480	65 030	48

Events in conference rooms	292		3 780

Theater 11 / Events	196		176 400

1) Gross exhibition area in m 2

2) No. of days (without assembly/dismantling)

Third-party exhibitions

Architect@work
AdvanceING
Automation & Electronics
Auto Zürich Car Show
Bauen & Modernisieren
Beauty Forum Swiss
Dialog-Marketing-Messe
Empack
ExpoHorse
Extasia
Fespo
Fest- und Hochzeitsmesse Zürich
HairFashion
IT-Expo.ch
Maintenance Schweiz
Mercedes CSI
Ornaris Zürich
Personal Swiss
Pumps & Valves
Slow Food Market
SuisseEMEX
Swiss E-Business Expo
Swiss Online Marketing
TALENTpro
TopSoft
VeggieWorld
WIR Messe Zürich
Zurich Game Show