8th HO.RE.CA. Expo Labeled A Success

The 8th International Hotel, Restaurant and Cafe Show HO.RE.CA. successfully closed last week, achieving great unprecedented success as it has attracted hundreds of thousands of visitors from all over Greece and abroad who flooded the Metropolitan Expo Center during all four days of the organization.

During 8-11 February, 468 exhibitors from the supply market of the tourism and food service industries presented their products and services to over 120.000 professional visitors from 36.000 companies of the sector.

“All this at an unbelievable for the Greek reality expo organization,” the organizers of HO.RE.CA. said in an announcement.

HO.RE.CA. went against Greece’s difficult economic climate this year and thanks to a well-coordinated advertising campaign and its reputation, acquired throughout the years, it closed as the biggest trade fair for the hospitality and food service industries ever held in Greece.

The numerous and well-targeted parallel events (Greek Breakfast initiative, 2nd General Assembly of the Hellenic Chamber of Hotels, SETE’s “Gastrotourism: Food for development” event, Tourism Forum for Chambers, Presentation of Athens WACS Congress, 6th International Gastronomy Forum, 1st HO.RE.CA. Bartending Show, etc.), the high level of exhibitors and their stands and the many trade agreements contracted during the exhibition, proved that HO.RE.CA. is an extremely significant forum for the entire hospitality and food service industries.

Hotel Suppliers @ 8th HO.RE.CA. – photo gallery

Coco-Mat stand. GTP's Maria Theofanopoulou with the director of Coco-Mat Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, George Pertesis. "Coco-Mat Hotels & Resorts Worldwide" is Coco-Mat's new hospitality experience, a "family" consisting of boutique hotels and resorts equipped with COCO-MAT natural sleep products, bed linen, towels and furniture.

Linen & Textiles- Crist hotel basics is one of most well known and established companies in the textile sector that produces white fabrics since 1971 in a wide scale. Crist, a specialist in the hotel industry, guided HORECA visitors through the magnificient world of its bed linen in Hall 3. The company provides products able to correspond perfectly to the most difficult conditions of hotels while they have perfect texture and exceptional sewing. Pictured is the company's sales and marketing manager, Tasos Iordanopoulos.

Catering Equipments & Products - EMKO Koutelas imports brand name, reliable mass catering professional equipment to cover the needs of every food service establishment in the tourism industry and the entertainment and hospitality sector. At HORECA, EMKO Koutelas presented a comprehensive range of equipment for every modern catering establishment with high requirements that insists on quality.

Catering Equipments & Products - Electrolux Hellas' Ioannis Zervalakis (Technical manager for Greece, Balkans, Cyprus), George Saharidis (Product Manager), Christos Partsos (Country Division Manager) and George Schinas (Product Manager) at the company's stand at HORECA 2013. Electrolux is a global leader in appliances for household and professional use and sells more than 40 million products to customers in more than 150 markets every year.

Wineries & Distilleries - The Boutari wine company participated in HORECA and gave visitors/wine lovers the opportunity to try its most popular wines but also new creations. Prior to HORECA, the Boutari company had attended one of the most important Greek wine tastings in the UK with the excellent Grande Reserve Naoussa Boutari 1993, in an effort to promote Greek wines abroad. The event took place on 7 February in London and was organized by the Circle of Wine Writers of England in collaboration with Constantinos Lazarakis MW and presented the wines of 18 Greek winemakers either of old vintages or exceptional bottling.

Cleaning & Sanitation - TSOLOGIANNIS - INNOVATION 3M is a leader in manufacturing mats with logos by exclusively using 3M Nomad mats. The special construction of the Nomad mats removes dirt and mud from shoes where there is heavy traffic of people such as hotels, cafes, bars, clubs etc. in the most effective way.

Website Developers - CEO and Co-founder of Nelios.Com Dimitris Serifis (center) with his team at HORECA. Nelios.com e-Tourism Digital Agency is a reliable solution for the strategic positioning of travel businesses on the Internet. The solution package offered by Nelios.com includes e-Tourism Consulting, web and mobile applications development, e-Marketing focusing on Search Marketing and Social Media Marketing and Design and Branding.

Computer & Software - SingularLogic is a leading software and integrated IT solutions group in Greece. Continuing its highly successful presence in the hospitality and food services markets, SingularLogic presented at HORECA its new applications "ARTius Restaurant" and "Galaxy Hotel" that fully cover all daily needs of food service businesses and modern hotels.

Computer & Software - HIT-Hospitality Integrated Technologies produces software, represents products and supports computer systems that can create the best and most appropriate solutions for each type and size of company. HIT supports over 85% of the installed base of the computerized hotels. Today, HIT continues its progress in the IT sector in the tourism industry, occupying a leading position with more than 1352 installations.

Computer & Software - Sunsoft has been producing Windows software applications since 1991. The company's solutions target the Hospitality Market such as Lodging (hotels) and food services (restaurants). Sunsoft's signature suite of software solutions, Alexandros, Amvrosia, Alexandros Front Office, Alexandros CRM, Alexandros F&B, Alexandros ERP and Infinite are currently implemented in more than 5,000 enterprises in Greece and Cyprus.

Computer & Software - SYSCO Systems Consultants specializes in developing and implementing software products in hospitality, restaurant, travel and shipping industry. Sysco's most recent strategic partnership is with Greek telecommunications provider hellas online: Sysco PSP powered by hol cloud. Already Airotel Group of Hotels has chosen to cover the whole of its telecommunications needs with Sysco PSP powered by hol cloud.

Food & Beverage - The stand of Kraft Food Hellas that promoted a series of branded products was one of the most visited stand in HORECA 2013.

For photos of the 8th HO.RE.CA. opening ceremony, press here.