Next year CULTOUR, Global Cultural Travel Fair, will be held on June 3rd and 4th in Cologne, Germany, only for professionals. CULTOUR will increase by 40% the exhibiting floor space at the same time that also will increase the number of hosted buyers by the same percentage.

Hosted buyers are worldwide product managers of tour operators and travel agencies wholeselling or retailing cultural travel related programs.

In 2009, CULTOUR will also continue inviting German, Dutch and Belgian professional visitors to attend the event, providing them with free surface transportation to Cologne.

This year in Cologne, the attending hosted buyers represented 30 countries while there were exhibitors from 32 countries. These exhibitors completed an average of 43 meetings with the hosted buyers and professional visitors.