The International Boat Show boot Düsseldorf will celebrate its 50th anniversary on 19-27 January 2019 at Düsseldorf exhibition centre. With its motto “Experience 360° watersports”, boot Düsseldorf reflects the entire market in January every year.
The biggest water sports trade fair in the world has been based in Düsseldorf since 1969 and has developed in spectacular fashion since then at its location next to the longest river in Germany – the Rhine.
At the anniversary event, Messe Düsseldorf is expecting not only a full house in 16 exhibition halls and 19 special presentations about every aspect of water sports but also visits by a wide range of leading athletes and ocean activists. Because boot is not just an international business platform; it also co-operates with the German Ocean Foundation and the Prince Albert II Foundation from Monaco to promote active ocean and water protection. The ocean tribute Award is, for example, being presented for outstanding environmental projects for the second time in the coming year.
There were 1,923 exhibitors from 68 different countries in 2018. boot takes up 220,000 square metres in 16 halls. 247,000 visitors came to Düsseldorf from 102 countries. More than 2,000 journalists reported live from the biggest water sports trade fair in the world. 110,000 people experienced “THE WAVE” and 1,500 of them dared to surf the 1.50 m high and 9 m wide standing wave themselves.
