Amsterdam Trade Shows

Amsterdam is one of the ideal venues for international exhibitions and as a result Amsterdam trade shows draw thousands of spectators and participants from all over the world each year.

Amsterdam, one of the most popular tourist destination sites of Europe and one of the leading venues for international trade fairs and conventions. The Amsterdam trade shows are attended by national as well as international delegates and this acts as a major boost for the economy of the city as well. As a result of these annual trade shows in Amsterdam, about 38,000 employment opportunities are created for the natives and an income of about €4 billion is generated in a year.

Amsterdam RAI Exhibition and Congress Center
The most preferable location for hosting the Amsterdam trade shows is the Amsterdam RAI Exhibition and Congress Center. This venue is highly preferable by organizers since it lies about 10mins away from the Schiphol International Airport, 15mins from the city centre and has its own railway station as well.


The RAI Center has 11 inter-related exhibition space, 22 conference halls, seven in-house restaurants, an auditorium which occupies about 1,750 people at a time and several multi-purpose lounge areas. The RAI Center is also very close to a host of renowned Amsterdam hotels like Holiday Inn Amsterdam, Bilderberg Garden Hotel, Golden Tulip Apollo Amsterdam and Novotel Amsterdam City among others.

Trade Shows Held at RAI Center
On an average, the RAI center holds about 500 trade shows, meetings, congress sessions and other social functions in a year and draws about 2 million visitors from different parts of the globe. Some of the popular trade shows held at the RAI Center include- Intelligent Energy Convention, Ifra Expo, IBC Expo, BouWRAI, Transec World Expo, Horecava, Intertraffic and others.

The IBC Expo is held for the media industry, BouWRAI is meant for the building and construction industry, Horecava is meant for the hotel and catering industry, Ifra Expo is meant for the newspaper and publishing industry, Intelligent Energy Convention is meant for the petroleum and energy sector industries and Intertraffic is meant for the traffic and related industries.

These are some of the leading and extremely popular international trade fairs which are scheduled to be held at Amsterdam; the perfect venue for international trade fairs.