FITNESS TRIBUNE No 1 English

Exhibition news

The fitness and wellness industry is also growing in eastern Europe! The Day Spa Association, the leading international business organisation for public bathing facilities, and which has the most complete Internet directory, is sponsoring the “Spa, Health & Fit ness” trade fair. Managing Director Hannelore R. Leavy says: “We are very pleased to be able to play a central role in this outstanding new event; the first of its kind with a main emphasis on bringing together owners and managers of spas, sports facilities, gyms, wellness clubs and beauty salons with interna tional sales organisations from all over Europe”.

On behalf of the International Exhibi tion Group (IEG) we cordially invite you to attend the upcoming “Spa, Health & Fitness” trade fair in Kiev, Ukraine. This international event has been expressly endorsed and is actively supported by the State Council for Presidential Affairs and the government of the Ukraine. “Spa, Health & Fitness” will take place in the capital Kiev from Sep tember 10th - 12th 2003. “Spa, Health & Fitness” is a unique forum which will bring you together with Ukrainian representatives from the wellness, skin and haircare, fitness, cos metics and sportsnutrition industries. It will allow you to secure your share of this up-and-coming market and expand your product-sales in a country with almost 50 million inhabitants. Today, the spa, fitness and beauty industries in eastern Europe are enjoy ing a significant upturn. One of the most important newspapers, the “KYIV POST” has recently declared the year 2002 the “Ukrainian year of health and fitness clubs”. “Spa, Health & Fit ness” has been conceived to satisfy the demand for the newest equipment for the modernisation and upgrading of existing facilities, according to IEG Director Alex Sakin. There is already a huge interest in health, beauty and fitness issues in the Ukraine; eastern Europe is one of the most profitable and booming markets in the world for equip ment and service suppliers in the spa, health and beauty industries.

World Championships in tandem with the international trade show. The fit ness market is exploding in this country, and STRENFLEX intends to promote this form of popular sport from the very beginning”, comments Sylvia Gattiker, president of STRENFLEX in Wallisel len, Switzerland (www.strenflex.org). IEG offers all interested parties a special “all-inclusive package”: Air travel (either from Berlin, Frankfurt, Vienna or Zurich), help in obtaining a visa, transfers, hotels, complete exhibi tion stand (with table, chairs, spotlights, power supply, lockable doors, carpet, side-wall panelling etc.), 1⁄2 page adver tisement in the official four-colour exhi bition catalogue and a whole page four colour advertisement in Fitness Tribune International magazine (the first English edition, to be published at the beginning of August). For further information (in English) please contact Alex Sakin. Tel: +1-203-357-1400 or e-mail Asakin@iegexpo.com. Info: www.iegexpo.com/ukr_spa.htm

The 2003 STRENFLEX World Championships will take place in tandem with “Spa, Health & Fitness”. STRENFLEX, the international fit ness-sport organisation based in Swit zerland has chosen the Ukrainian trade show because of its similar objectives and exhibition themes and the explo sion in the wellness and fitness market in Europe’s second largest country. “We are very pleased to be able to hold our

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