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The 3rd Edition of Expoalcaldía closes its doors with an increase in visitors

16/05/2008

May 16, 2008

After three days characterized by the high level before the 196 participating companies, Expoalcaldía, Salon of equipment and services for municipalities and territorial entities, held together with Sid Tecnodeporte, been closed with a high degree of professional visitors. More than 8,000 people visited 7 Zaragoza fair Pavilion, an increase of 10 percent over the previous edition, held in March 2006.

Both pageants, which call for an economic sector in continuous expansion, benefited from the synergies which gave them Smagua, managing to attract the attention of a number of professionals from 21 countries, including, in addition to the European environmentothers such as Guatemala, Nicaragua, Argentina, Denmark, Haiti, Ecuador or Uruguay.

Technical conferences, seminars, scientific sessions and the presentation of developments in all sectors of the exhibition were some of the key elements to enhance the growth of these salons, which included the participation of almost 200 exhibitors in an area of 16,800 square meters.

Among the novelties of this Edition, it should be noted the holding of the first competition in areas of games children whose objective focused on support and disseminate the efforts of municipalities carried out with large investments in areas of entertainment. With the delivery of the 'Swing' awards to 12 municipalities of all Spain, Feria de Zaragoza wanted to recognize the importance of these spaces as elements of integration and sociability, as pointed out the Mayor of Zaragoza, Juan Alberto Belloch, the awards ceremony. The competition established four categories, depending on the number of inhabitants of each locality.