Excellent hotel and breakfast. Service and reception was great. Fair was less crowded but good enough.

Bologna Children's Book Fair 2024
About the event
Update
Fiera Bologna is preparing for the Bologna Children's Book Fair 2024 which will occur between the 8th and 11th of April 2024. The event will be held without implemented coronavirus safeguards. This is due to the country countermanding its pandemic restrictions.
Preface
The Bologna Children's Book Fair (BCBF) is one of the publishing industry’s leading trade fairs. It is an annual event that takes place in Fiera Bologna. It attracts diverse participants such as publishers, writers, transcribers, and literary agencies. Virtual media experts, teachers, critics, and distributors also attend the fair. Additionally, editorial directors, consultants, app creators, and audiobook experts take part. Booksellers, packagers, printers, librarians, and end users attend the fair. This results in a participation rate of over 1 000 exhibiting firms from 90 countries. Additionally, the event receives over 20 000 visitants. This includes one record-setting rendition, which featured over 75,000 attendees. The BCBF is a trade fair that provides over 250 sub-events. They enable participants to achieve goals such as exchanging ideas, networking, showcasing products, and earning recognition.
About the Bologna Children's Book Fair
Various sectors attend the BCBF. These include libraries, books, publishing, and printing segments. The education, hobbies, gaming, mass media, IT, services, and health industries also attend. The event features a diversity of sub-events. Examples include various awards, such as the Bologna Ragazzi Award and Bologna Ragazzi Cross Media Award. The fair also includes expositions such as the Illustrators and Books on the Move. Attendees can also visit the Illustrators, Translators Centre, Comics Corner, Booksellers Lounge, Literary Agents, and Teachers' focus zones. The fair also presents the wares of leading companies such as:
- Hasbro;
- HarperCollins Publishers;
- LEGO® Books;
- Lonely Planet;
- Oxford University Press;
- PONS GmbH;
- Curtis Brown;
- Writers House;
- The Bent Agency.
Bologna Children's Book Fair Accommodation
Procure suitable accommodation for BCBF with Travel 2 Fairs Ltd. All that is necessary is to inform us about the rooms you need, how much you wish to spend, and your desired location. Travel 2 Fairs Ltd manages the rest. Reserve lodgings adjacent to Fiera Bologna. This will improve your commuting time by gaining invaluable public transport access. We can inform you of the top-quality routes to take to the locale. Apart from reasonable lodging accommodation for expositions, we likewise provide transport services. One travel method to your hotel is to have a rentable car expecting you at the airport. Another is to schedule an airport transfer in both directions.
Event information might be outdated because of the coronavirus pandemic. More information is available from the organiser.
Past Iterations
Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2022
The 2022 edition of the Bologna International Children's Book Fair took place as an in-person event at the Fiera Bologna. The hosting dates were set between the 21st and 24th of March 2022. Coronavirus safeguards were implemented at the venue. This included attendees needing to show 3G entry documents, such as proof of recovery. The edition received 1 070 exhibiting firms from 90 countries and 21 432 visitants. Over 300 journalists also attended the edition, which marked the successful restart of the event.
Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2023
The 2023 iteration of the event received 1 456 exhibiting firms from approximately 90 nations and 28 894 visitants. This signified a 35% increase compared to the previous iteration. A total of 325 sub-events were held during the hybrid trade exhibition held in Fiera Bologna. The complementary digital platform received 2 million website views, 800 illustrators from 70 nations, and 200 000 participants with 60% engaging from abroad. The social media communities comprised of 80 000 Facebook, 90 000 Instagram, and 10 000 LinkedIn followers. Over 750 media experts (35% of them from abroad) representing 33 countries attended the event.
over 80
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1400+
exhibitors
29,000+
visitors
over 820
journalists
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Dear Michael
Many thanks –that’s much appreciated and please do apologise to George again for me - for not being able to get back to him sooner.
I look forward to speaking again soon and with best wishes to all as always.
Julian

Dear Michelle,
Thank you so much for your kind assistance.
REALLY appreciated.
Christa Bester

Dear Tess
Hope you are doing well
Thank you very much for your email we had a great stay at the hotel its was great working with you we will book a hotel for next year ITB
Regards
lazarus

Dear Megan,
Regarding the hotel, it was ok, some rooms were very small like mine but it was clean. Some other colleagues were happy because they had big rooms with a nice view. The staff was friendly and very useful.
Regards,
Céline AVILA-PENELON

One of my colleagues tried to check in after 11pm using the self-service system it found is booking, asked him to enter my address, and then when pressed to confirm it said it couldn’t process my check-in. This happened to another colleague arriving late due to flight delays -the system is unreliable/faulty, which is a particular issue when the check-in desk is unmanned. Both had to use the hotel's emergency number. Overall the hotel was clean and service was ok.

All well arranged.Friendly staff. Hotel Moniga Fiera In Milan was very close to the EICMA fair.Ideal location.Good self service buffet breakfast in the morning.Similar in the evening.Very comfortable rooms.Would recommend to book this hotel.

Hi Tom - Thank you for following up. Michael and Aaron stated that they had a beautiful stay at the Hotel Arena. Separately, IBC proved to be a very successful trip for them. Your help in coordinating their stay was invaluable!
Thank you so much.
Sincerely,
Alexandra Reynolds.

Hi Christine,
I’ve appreciated your service and in particular your flexibility. We usually don’t know which staff will be attending our exhibitions until very near the time, and your flexibility with this is important to us and much appreciated.
The rate for the hotel was reasonable. It was near the upper end of our budget, but good value I think, considering the following feedback from staff:
“Hotel was fine, rooms were good and had no problems. Only potential issue was the limited parking, but this didn’t affect me last week.”
“Would definitely stay there again. Staff were really pleasant and helpful, food was good and the location was pretty good too.”
“I would stop there again no problem good rooms good food and good location for city centre.”
Many thanks again for your help.
Kind regards,
Rachel

Hi Tom,
Thanks for your email, All was fine in the hotel we booked.
Thanks and have a nice day,
Bien cordialement, Best regards,
Mathilde CHELLY
Europe Sales Representative
Pharmaceutical Division

Dear Christine,
The Novum Hotel Madison Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof was fine: good service, large rooms and bathrooms.
A bit old-fashioned and a 3 star hotel in my opinion rather than 4 stars.
Breakfast was fine.
Best regards

I recently used Travel to Fairs to help me search for a hotel for a group of colleagues attending Bauma 2022 and my whole experience was very positive. Michelle Adams, my agent gave some very good suggestions and options for hotels near to the venue and in the centre of Munich. Michelle's communication with me was excellent and always very helpful. I would highly recommend t2f to anyone booking for an event.
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