Venues

The 43 exhibitions comprise 19 MCH Group exhibitions and 24 third-party exhibitions. In all, they attracted 8,812 exhibiting companies and around 1.2 million visitors. They occupied a gross exhibition area of some 770,000 square metres – equivalent to around 130 football pitches.

With 28 congresses and 137 additional events, the Congress Center Basel recorded a very high capacity utilisation in the 2019 financial year. A number of highlights: in February, 130 professional conference organisers met in Basel for the 50th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Professional Congress Organisers IAPCO. In May, around 1000 participants from 90 countries attended the World Congress on Military Medicine. A similar number of participants came to the Global Summit of Women, an economic forum, in July. And, in September, Intelligent Health 2019 even attracted 2,000 participants from 68 countries, including one hundred speakers.

A total of 254,000 visitors attended the 297 events staged in the two Musical Theaters in Basel and Zurich. Exhibition Hall 3 is being rented by the MCH Group for exhibitions until the end of 2025. The City of Basel has taken over the existing rental and operating contract with Rent-a-Theater AG, Zurich, for the Musical Theater.