Information on UK trade shows and exhibitions
 
Britain is the birthplace of the exhibition industry, its history can be traced back to 100 years ago in the 19th century. From the 1970s onwards, the British government recognised that the exhibition industry is not only of great economic value, and tourism, trade and investment, foreign exchange growth and employment and other industries have a good stimulating effect, the British government will exhibition industry as an important industry To be supported. In 1980, the British Government set up the Conference Board of London, 1990, the United Kingdom established a major city conference bureau, specifically for the exhibition industry to provide advice and services, since the British exhibition industry into a period of rapid development.
The UK MICE industry consists of conferences, exhibitions, competitions and incentive travels, covering more than 20 categories, more than 250 industries. From the very beginning, the British Government and the Convention and Exhibition Industry Association have been interested in building multi-level platforms with industries such as financial services, tourism, creative industries, festive economy, and construction, and so on, which will promote the exhibition industry in the UK. The main industry development ties. At present, all the UK trade associations have established contact units under the exhibition industry, the British city, Tourism Bureau, the Pioneer Park and a variety of festive economic exhibition as its important means of promotion, after many years of practice, these industries with the exhibition industry Platform, mutual integration, formed from the financial services, creative design, exhibition stimulating to promote tourism, trade, entertainment and other industries comprehensive development model.
At present, the United Kingdom has 8000-10000 size exhibition venues, of which 12% of large exhibition venues, 60% -70% of the hotel's conference room. London, Birmingham, Glasgow, Edinburgh has become a famous exhibition city.
In 2012, the UK exhibition industry output value of 24.6 billion pounds, of which the trade show exhibition output value of 9.3 billion pounds, the meeting output value of 7.2 billion pounds, the exhibition brings the hotel revenue 1.1 billion pounds, the sports activities output value of 2.3 billion pounds. The convention and exhibition industry has created 137,000 jobs in the UK, bringing the total number of visitors to 17 million.
 

                                        The Edinburgh International Festival 
 
Summer is the most active season for British cultural and artistic activities. Various arts festivals, music festivals, cultural festivals one after another, and one of the most interesting festivals is the Edinburgh International Festival.
Interesting history
In the UK, the Edinburgh Festival is known as the Edinburgh Festival Fringe - the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Its origins are interesting.
In 1947, shortly after World War II, the first Edinburgh Fringe Festival was held in Edinburgh. Its founders believe that this festival can give European artists a platform to promote the spirit of human friendliness, showcase the talents of various artists and restore people's faith in peace.
Eight uninvited art groups set up their own performance venues to compete with the official Edinburgh Arts Festival for not having a show. As a result, their performances were very popular. Which has become a feature of Edinburgh's artistic activities, attracting artists and groups from all over the UK and around the world to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
The Edinburgh Fringe Festival has long been one of the largest arts festivals in the world, but remains a free-to-play, colorful feature.
More than 2,000 performances
This year's Edinburgh Festival begins on August 3 and ends on August 25. From the recently published Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2,088 performances will be held this year, and more than 33,000 artists from 47 countries will participate.
Including not only national professional and amateur actors, there are some international famous artists, performing groups and singers, and will be staged for the first time a Scottish opera.
It is worth mentioning that this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival has a number of thematic small arts festivals, such as the Comedy Festival. Of which more than 40 venues staged comedy and comedy performances. If you do not want to spend money to buy a ticket to watch the movie, during the festival, Edinburgh city has 10 bars are comedy performances, you can drink while watching, completely free of charge.
Like music friends, not only in the festival to enjoy opera and musical performances, like pop friends can also win this year's British Music Award for Best Female Singer singer Kate Nash's performance, and the popular band Scouting For Grils's performance.
The spirit of the Edinburgh Fringe Art Festival, which is open to all artists, spreads throughout the world.