Portugal Trade Fair Grounds
Directory Exhibition & Convention Centres in Portugal
Trade Show Venues Portugal
FIL – The Lisbon Exhibition and Congress Centre
ExpoSalão
More than an exhibition centre, ExpoSalão is the stage of your events, the stage of good business.
Born in 1992, ExpoSalão is the bigger private exhibition centre in the Iberian Peninsula, dynamizing nearly 20 events every year. Some of them are presently real references in the sectors they promote.
This space is also assigned to receive events such as congresses, companies and products presentations, fashion shows or institutional meetings and celebrations. With a total surface of 120.000m2, ExpoSalão includes an indoor exhibition area of 22.000m2, distributed throughout 3 halls, a parking lot, a multi-use zone and an auditorium, which may be divided according the exhibitors’ and events’ needs. Various support zones are also available: a restaurant, bars, a multi-use hall and a modern auditorium, prepared to receive different kinds of events and presentations.
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Exponor – Porto International Fair
The Exponor Exhibition Centre – Porto International Fair covers an area of 200,000 square metres and boasts almost 50,000 square metres of covered space. The venue comprises 6 halls of varying sizes, a 945-seater auditorium as well as more than 5,000 square metres of multi-purpose galleries and various rooms. There is also a car park with 2,500 spaces.
Exponor, whose experience of organising events dates back to 1856, is an institution with a proven track record in the successful realisation of international fairs. It was the first Portuguese trade fair organiser certified by the ISO 9001 Quality Standards and is still one of the few, on an international level, which can boast this recognition. It has branch offices around the world and organizes over 30 fairs every year for different sectors of activities in Europe, Africa and South America, this corresponds to thousands of visitors every year.
Exponor belongs to one of the best known entities in the country, the Associação Empresarial de Portugal – Câmara de Comércio e Indústria (Portuguese Business Association – Chamber of Commerce and Industry) which was established in 1849. It has been a member of the UFI – The Global Association of the Exhibition Industry since 1991 and, at present, 15 of its fairs are considered «UFI Approved Events».
Exponor is also a founding member of the Portuguese Association of Trade Fairs and Conferences.
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FIL – The Lisbon Exhibition and Congress Centre / Feira Internacional de Lisboa
The International Fair of Lisbon’s Exhibition Fairground is currently hosting around 40 events per year. FIL’s activities include organisation of fairs, rental of space for initiatives belonging to third parties and a wide variety of services related to fair and exhibition activities.
With annual, biannual and biennial periodicity, the fairs may be related to various sectors of economic activity such as tourism, furniture, food, hotel industry, decoration, construction, handicraft, art, among many others. The multiplicity of fairs (multi-exhibition, sectorial or multi-producty) is further divided into fairs for professionals, public or both.
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