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The coronavirus, which started in China's Wuhan province and spread all over the world in a short period of two months, affects all sectors, especially the service sector.
According to the results of the research conducted jointly by the Global Union of the Fair Industry (UFI), the Association of Independent Fair Organizers (SISO) and Oxford Economics, an average of 30 thousand fairs are organized annually around the world. It has a global volume of 325 billion dollars and contributes around 81 billion dollars to national economies. Three million people are employed in the world through fair organisations. (click for source)
Many national and regional fairs are organized around the world and the number of fairs approved by UFI is 621. This year, 325 of these fairs were canceled or postponed due to the coronavirus effect. The loss caused by canceled fairs to the aviation industry is approximately 30 billion dollars. Among the canceled fairs, there are fairs where Perge architecture customers also made agreements.
Mobile World Congress (MWC), the technology fair to be held in Barcelona, is one of the first major fairs to be canceled in Europe. Then, due to the domino effect, major fairs such as the International Inventions Fair to be held in Geneva, Switzerland, and the Furniture Fair in Milan, Italy, were postponed. During this process, 124 fairs in China were affected. 60 fairs were also affected in Italy, which, along with China, is one of the countries that had the most difficult time in this process. (click for source)
Konya Agricultural Fair, Turkey's largest and Europe's third largest fair, and the 25th Izmir Book Fair, which we serve as Perge Architecture, have also been postponed.
Dozens of our domestic and international fairs have been canceled and some of them have been postponed to a later date.
We took a number of measures to avoid being overly affected by the extraordinary situation we encountered in the first quarter of 2020. In order to overcome the problem together, we strengthened our cooperation and communication with our customers.
Perge Architecture Office will serve its customers by working from home for a while during this period.
Our wish is that this negative situation affecting the whole world will end as soon as possible and life will return to normal.
We wish you healthy days.
