The largest IT exhibition of the world has missed the fifth part of visitors

In 2009 the world's largest computer exhibition CeBIT in Hanover have visited more than 400 thousand persons that for 20 percent there is less than indicator of year prescription. On it it is informed in the press release of organizers CeBIT 2009. The greatest number of visitors CeBIT has collected in 2001. Then an exhibition has visited more than 850 thousand persons. The quantity of participants CeBIT 2001 has exceeded eight thousand companies. About 20 percent of visitors CeBIT 2009 have arrived to Hanover from other countries. Thus if the number of visitors from Asia in 2009 has decreased, quantity of visitors from Northern and the South America, and also from the countries of the Near East, has increased. Organizers CeBIT 2009 underline that, despite attendance falling, the exhibition has appeared more successfully last year's. In particular, the quantity of the business contacts adjusted on CeBIT 2009, has increased by 20 percent. Exhibition CeBIT passed from March, third till March, eighth. It have opened the governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger and German chancellor Angela Merkel. In 2009 CeBIT has taken places on the area of 200 thousand square metres. 4300 companies have taken part in an exhibition from 69 states that for 25 percent there is less than indicator of 2008.

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