About the EXPONET.RU project
EXPONET.RU - Exhibitions of Russia, CIS, World
Exhibition portal EXPONET.RU has been developed and supported by "InfoCentre" ltd.
EXPONET.RU is the largest specialized project, devoted to the exhibition business in the Russian part of Internet.
Originally the website was meant as a collection of exhibitors catalogues from the exhibitions, held in Saint Petersburg. But as far as it was developed, the main attention was turned to the information about upcoming exhibitions. From that time the exhibitions calendar started to be published on the website. The special consideration was given to the reliability and timeliness of the information listed.
1996. Website creation. This is one of the first resources on the given topic and the only one, which has been existing for so long and ranks as the first at present.
1997. The information about the main exhibitions of Saint Petersburg as well as catalogues of these exhibitions participants appeared on the website.
1998. All Saint Petersburg exhibition organizers, without exceptions, began to collaborate with the project.
1999. The year of qualitative change. Informational website changed into portal, providing interactive services: ordering the exhibition floor space became possible right from the pages of EXPONET.RU. By the end of the year over 70% of exhibition organizers in Saint Petersburg used this opportunity.
2000. The project became the most famous and visited in Saint Petersburg and stepped out of the city limits. Offers of colloboration started to come from other cities in Russia and, a little later, from the Commonwealth of Independent States.
2001. The largest exhibitions of Moscow and regional centers were listed on EXPONET.RU. The project started to provide new services: ordering invitation tickets to exhibitions for specialists, registration of visitors to foreign exhibitions, for both representatives of the official organizations and individual tours.
2002. Exhibition centers of Byelorussia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan started to cooperate with the project.
2003. The portal provided services on ordering invitation tickets to all exhibitions in Saint Petersburg. The most of the exhibition companies, members of International Union of Exhibitions and Fairs (from 2006, Russian Union of Exhibitions and Fairs) were collaborating with the project. Exhibitions of Azerbaijan, Georgia, Germany, Czech Republic and China appeared on the portal.
2004. Several more projects started successfully: interactive hotel booking, while visiting exhibitions in other cities - for visitors, interactive ordering for exhibition stands construction, purchase or rent of exhibition equipment, ordering business souvenirs, advertising in mass media and even carrying out full-fledged advertising campaigns. Following the results of the 2003 - 2004 season, "InfoCentre" ltd. was recognized as the best partner of the Exhibition Center "KrasnodarEXPO".
2005. The most of the exhibition organizers in Russia, Byelorussia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan were colloborating with the project. The number of foreign exhibitions, listed on EXPONET.RU portal, exceeded 1000. EXPONET-EXPERT system was introduced, which helped the companies to make decision regarding participation in the exhibitions.
2006. The number of foreign exhibitions, listed on EXPONET.RU, exceeded 2500. EXPONET.RU, together with the leading travel agencies, was developing the trend of business tourism. The first cooperation agreements with the foreign exhibition organizers were concluded.
2007. Systems of operating collection and on-line demonstration of statistics for organizers were introduced.
2008. Organizers of exhibitions in Europe, Asia and Middle East became the partners of EXPONET.RU.
2009. The new original projects, providing additional opportunities for exhibition organizers, are in the stage of development. The project attracts new foreign partners.
Statistics.
Unique and authentic material about exhibitions in Russia and CIS was collected during the project's work. It is possible to receive a comprehensive information on every exhibition:
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At present EXPONET.RU contains information about over 4500 upcoming exhibitions with detailed description
and participation conditions.
The portal lists description of exhibitions scheduled for 2009, 2010, 2011.
The archive numbers over 16500 exhibitions.
More than 1800 exhibitors catalogues of various past exhibitions can be found on the website.
The project has over 450 partners, among which are exhibition organizers, stand builders, design studios, travel agencies and hotels, newspapers and magazines.
Today over 20500 people visit the portal daily, they look through over 65000 pages.
About 31000 people read weekly mailing from EXPONET.RU, divided into 35 topics.
More than 50 companies complete applications for participation in various exhibitions every day, expert visitors get over 300 invitation tickets to the exhibitions daily.
EXPONET.RU portal recruits about 15000 exhibitors, 90000 expert visitors a year.
How EXPONET.RU works:
EXPONET.RU contains exhaustive information for each exhibition, that is enough to make decision about the exhibition participation or visiting.
EXPONET.RU provides a convenient search system to look for required exhibitions
EXPONET.RU registers all the companies, which are interested in exhibition participation and all expert visitors, who would like to visit exhibitions.
EXPONET.RU provides connection between organizers and companies, interested in exhibition participation.
