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Dwindling visitor attendance causes world’s biggest car exhibition to look for a new German location
06 February 2020 - 05:14
The world’s biggest car show will no longer be held in Frankfurt, the show’s organising group, Verband der Automobilindustrie, says.
The biennial show, which has been hosted in Frankfurt for about 70 years, will be moved to a new city to attract more visitors after attendance numbers plummeted in recent years. Last year’s show drew only about 550,000 visitors, after the halls were filled with 810,000 attendees in 2017 and 931,000 in 2015...
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