The BMT 2025 ends with growing numbers: in Naples over 15 thousand visitors and 500 exhibitors
De Negri: "International Fair. Thanks to us entrepreneurs they focus on luxury in the South"
Santanchè: "We need quality tourism"
NAPLES, 15 March - Over fifteen thousand tourism operators and visitors to Naples for the twenty -eighth edition of BMT, which was held in the Oltremare exhibition of Naples from 13 to 15 March 2025. There were 500 exhibitors welcomed on an exhibition area of 16 thousand square meters, 50 bodies and international destinations for tourism promotion, almost doubled in the last edition and with many operators to crowd the stands, 85 Tour Operator, 85 Tour Operators. Outgoing and Incoming, 18 airlines, including 7 that connect Naples with North America, and airports, 13 cruise and navigation companies, 11 strategic regions for the promotion of the Italian territory, 50 countries from all over the world with Croatia who has chosen Naples and BMT as the main basis for promotion in Italy and 160 Buysters: the international ones coming Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, India, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Norway, Poland, Portugal, the United Kingdom, the Czech Republic, Spain, Switzerland, Hungary, USA; Among the national ones of the business travel sector and incentives present companies such as Barilla, Bauli, Lovable, Polaris. And still four workshops that have seen the presence of 390 Italian saddlers with 1,300 appointments on the agenda. Over 100 bread, events, presentations
“Oggi BMT è individuata come la seconda fiera sul turismo organizzato d’Italia, ed è una fiera internazionale. Negli anni abbiamo portato a Napoli 5mila tour operator stranieri, che visitano il nostro territorio e il Sud”, ha sottolineato il patron di Progecta, Angioletto De Negri, per il quale “è grazie a BMT se anche nel Sud gli imprenditori hanno voglia oggi di puntare sul turismo di lusso”. Proprio di questo segmento si è parlato nel corso dell’evento “Campania luxury & mice destination”, promosso nel corso di BMT. L’area del lusso, che ha fatto il suo esordio quest’anno, verrà implementata per l’edizione del 2026 visto il grande successo riscontrato. “I miei elogi – ha detto De Negri – a chi ha avuto il coraggio di iniziare per primo, come il residente dell’Unione Industriali di Napoli Costanzo Jannotti Pecci, a fare questi investimenti: il territorio meridionale ha bisogno del turismo di qualità. Ci sono prossime aperture di alberghi di lusso e questo deve incoraggiare chi di dovere a promuovere investimenti perché le città, come Napoli, cambino anche un po’ il look. Noi oggi abbiamo sette aerei che arrivano dall’America, sono turisti che vogliono trovare il bel vivere, e a Napoli si può, bisogna soltanto orientare determinate cose che non funzionano. Per la città le cose cambieranno, i turisti pernotteranno in città almeno per sei notti, dobbiamo essere pronti a riceverli con i guanti bianchi”.
A concept also expressed by the Tourism Minister Daniela Santanché, who visited the BMT on the opening day, participating in the inaugural event in the Oltremare exhibition of Naples. For the minister, in fact, Italy must focus on "quality tourism. Tourism in the high -end accommodation sector, 5 -star hotels, the 5 stars luxury, grew by 9% compared to the rest of hotel tourism, which grew by 5.2%. I believe that what was done in the past years, counting how many tourists, how many heads, they came to our nation, we must no longer interest us. They leave in our nation, on our territories, in our structures, to our merchants.
Finally, among the novelties of BMT's 2025, great success for the new spa area curated by Federalberghi Terme who proposed a calendar of events for all three days and the presence of institutional actors, including the Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs Maria Tripodi.
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