Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Today, most of the events taking place in the world are, to one degree or another, related to the pandemic, related restrictions and the consequences of lockdowns. The rapid spread of the pandemic in 2020 and the massive restrictions imposed have caused significant damage to the entire global economy, and, in particular, to the congress and exhibition industry, whose events, due to their specifics, require the direct presence of participants and visitors, and, as practice has shown, holding such online events are ineffective. It is encouraging that the gradual easing and lifting of restrictions allow the industry to gradually reach the pre-pandemic level.

Iteca Exhibitions, like most exhibition companies in the world, faced the difficulties and challenges of the pandemic, and at the same time, was able to use the forced pause in 2020 not only to strengthen established ties with partners, regular exhibitors and government agencies, but also to establish new contacts and attract target audience for upcoming company events.

Supporting the slogan of the World Exhibition Association - "Exhibitions are the key to economic recovery", Iteca Exhibitions initiated the return of exhibitions in our country to the usual format of holding and made every effort to implement this task. Of course, this would not have been possible without the appropriate decision of the Government of the Republic of Uzbekistan, which was sympathetic to the initiative, and the holding of congress and exhibition events in Uzbekistan returned to its usual track last year.

In the difficult conditions of the pandemic and severe restrictions, Iteca Exhibitions showed a sense of responsibility, patience, applied all its experience to non-standard solutions to emerging issues, stopped the facts of unfair competition and successfully held 14 international exhibitions in the 2021 exhibition season. 900 companies from 38 countries took part in the exhibitions. Exhibitions were visited by 31,970 people, of which 2,115 were foreign visitors from 36 countries.

Iteca Exhibitions meets the upcoming season of 2022 with optimism, the implementation of all 18 annual international exhibitions from the company’s portfolio of events is planned, which indicates the company’s readiness to reach the pre-pandemic level.

As shown by the previous exhibition season, the return of exhibitions to their usual format after a forced break was eagerly expected by most market players. As the epidemiological situation normalizes, the value of holding exhibitions in a live format will become even more obvious and indispensable.

As a socially responsible company, Iteca Exhibitions will continue to hold all its events in accordance with the new concept in the exhibition industry - "Safe Exhibitions", that is, in strict accordance with the requirements of sanitary and epidemiological norms and rules established by the Special Commission of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the World Health Organization.

At the same time, Iteca Exhibitions is cautiously optimistic and expresses the hope that mass quarantine restrictions in a number of countries of the world will still remain in the past.