Dear Tom,
Thank you for your follow up. The entire team was very happy with the hotel and their staff. We had a fantastic time. Please consider this hotel for the InterSec 2017, too.
Sincerely,
Mario Tschunke Director of Operations
ISM 2023 will be held between 23.04.2023 and 25.04.2023. Messe Cologne will not feature Covid-19 safety measures. Germany does not have travel restrictions.
Founded in 1971, ISM is one of the leading trade fairs for the sweets and snacks sector of the F&B industry. It is an annual event that presents confectionery, sweets, and snacks innovations. It is held in Messe Cologne alongside ProSweets Cologne. This allows participants to access new markets, earn recognition and network. This results in over 39,000 participants from over 140 countries attending the event. The group includes more than 37,000 visitors. 70% of them represent a foreign country. 93% are involved in purchasing and procurement decisions, and 79% have executive positions. The attendant group also features around 1,800 exhibitors. 87.5% of them travel from abroad. Additionally, more than 600 journalists from 27 countries visit the fair. Participants represent countries such as the USA, France, Argentina, Egypt, Japan, and Australia. They vary from manufacturers through suppliers to distributors. This includes wholesalers, importers, exporters, purchasers, trade chains, department stores, and hypermarkets. Food services, pastry shops, cafés, bakeries, confectioneries, and retailers also attend. So do online food retailers, vending machine operators and nutrition scientists. Food chemists and sweets/snack producers likewise visit ISM.
ISM receives participants from industries such as F&B, food processing, packaging, and wholesale. Additionally, the retail, import & export, nutrition, health, distribution and HoReCa sectors attend the trade fair. So do the vending machine, chemical, and agriculture industries.
ISM is a trade fair with a comprehensive support schedule. For instance, one of its showstoppers is the detailed exhibition. It features seven exhibitor sections. These include chocolate, sugar confectionery, biscuits, snack foods, trend & natural snacks, breakfast snacks, and ice cream. Another must-attend sub-event is the Finest Creation-Hand-Crafted. The ISM Expert Stage, ISM Award, Trend [email protected], Halal Market, and Sweet Kitchen should not be disregarded. This also applies to the New Product Showcase, ISM Start-up Area, and ISM Newcomer Area. The Cologne Coffee Forum and the Sweet Traditions Special Show are also must-attends.
Participants include a diverse range of leading exhibitor companies. Among them are Kaufland, Kroger, Metro, Coop, Whole Foods and Edeka. Aldi, Carrefour, Amazon, Walgreens, Costco, Roshen, Spar, Billa AG, Sainsbury, DM partners, Mercadona, REWE and Toms Confectionery also attend.
Seek hotels for ISM before all the good deals are taken and land your dream price with Travel 2 Fairs Ltd. Tell us how many rooms you need, how much you are willing to spend, and where you want to be located. Travel 2 Fairs Ltd manages the rest. Book hotels close to Messe Cologne and gain valuable access to public transport. We advise you on the best routes to take to the venue. Asides from affordable hotel accommodation for exhibitions, we also provide transport services. One way to travel to your hotel is to have a rent-a-car wait for you at the airport. Another is to schedule an airport transfer in both directions.
Due to the corona pandemic (COVID-19), trade fair and event information may be obsolete. You can get more information from the organiser.
2022
ISM and ProSweets 2022 took place as hybrid events between 30.01.2022–02.02.2022. The events comprised a live exhibition hosted at Messe Cologne and a digital platform – ISM & [email protected] The renditions' live aspect featured the latest Covid-19 safety precautions. Attendees were required to show documents such as proof of recovery certificates. They also had to maintain a safe distance of 1.5 metres. The events received around 15,000 trade visitors from 96 countries, with 78% of them being foreign participants. Among the attending countries were Russia, the USA, Belgium, Turkey, France, Great Britain, and the Netherlands.
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Dear Tom,
Thank you for your follow up. The entire team was very happy with the hotel and their staff. We had a fantastic time. Please consider this hotel for the InterSec 2017, too.
Sincerely,
Mario Tschunke Director of Operations
The hotel has a great position, we walked every day from hotel to Messe Frankfurt by foot. Your service was great, you accomplished all our requests. I suggest t2f to all people.
Fantastic service from George and Hotel with good location, asked for balcony and he had a perfect room with all services.
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.
Everything was okay. Nice staff. Clean room, very quite place, no street rush, perfect breakfast. Not enough parking spaces but it was not a problem to park in the street few metres from hotel. Perfect hotel for few nights for business trips. Not far from Messe Stuttgart - only 10 minutes by car. Without any traffic.
The hotel was perfect for our 5 days stay in Friedrichshafen. Rooms warm and clean. Good breackfast and good restaurant.
Dear Tom,
thank you for your email. The hotel was quite good but the service was not honestly professional, staff was not so friendly and the rooms were a bit poor. We had to change the personal code (to use elevators, enter in the room, parking etc..) 3 times as we had 3 reservations/each. Sometimes my colleague found the room not clean and in the same condition as in the morning.
However the location was good and my general feedback is positive. I thank you very much for your support, you are really professional and quick in replying.
Thank you again for your cooperation,
Best regards
Hi Megan,
Everything was as expected, thanks.
KR Morten
Thanks for your assistance in finding a hotel for Biofach 2020. The Ibis was in a good central location and met expectations. Regards Chris
Megan Moore was grand to work with... We had on-off-on again hotel guests. She found the highest quality hotel at the lowest price for us in a popular Paris neighbourhood - 5 stars at 2 star prices! Megan also found some great deals for us in other tier one cities as well - low prices, high quality - during peak exposition times. Will certainly use her again!
The team of Travel To Fairs Ltd. has helped me a lot, met my needs (research for an accomodation for my guests, and changes of the last minutes); the hotel, a three stars category 20 minutes from the fair of Trondheim, was very clean and the staff very helpfull and kind.
Dear Christine,
I have to thank you because the solution you found last minute is the best ever! I found the hotel to be clean, comfortable and excellent breakfast, really nice staff. Really great solution! thank you very much! I also talked about this hotel to other colleagues and these came to see it! I really thank you very much! congratulations
Ciao
Andrea Rampoldi
Sales Director Italy & Emerging Countries