Held in a different location in Germany each year, INTERGEO stimulates and guides dialogue within the industry. Regional and global sales markets intermesh and promote ongoing communication with all the relevant target groups.

Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city and one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants. It is one of the oldest cities in Germany, having been founded by the Romans in the year 38 BC.

With a population of more than one million and prime location in the heart of Europe, Cologne has become one of the most important centers for economy, trade and science in central Europe.

Nowadays, Cologne is one of the most important transport hubs in Western Europe with excellent connections via land, sea or air. With its five Rhine ports, Cologne has the second largest inland harbour in Germany.

Cologne is also a leading trade fair and convention centre. The annual programme of events for the Koelnmesse exhibition centre includes more than 50 trade fairs and exhibitions as well as 2000 conventions. The insurance and media sectors (11 TV companies and 11 radio stations) are also important to the city.

 

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Nuremberg, the second-largest city in Bavaria and the thirteenth-largest municipality in Germany, particularly since the EU Eastern expansion, has profited from its central location within the European economic region. With 500,000 inhabitants, Nuremberg is the Northern Bavarian economic, services and cultural centre, as well as being the centre of a conurbation of about 2.5 million inhabitants.

 

The strengths of the Nuremberg economic region lie in the fields of communication and multimedia, traffic engineering and logistics, energy and environment, power electronics and service industry. Nuremberg's expertise, particularly in some seminal technologies, ranks among the top in Europe. Valuable impetus is given by research institutes located in the Nuremberg region, such as for example the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits.

Nuremberg as a trade fair centre has also become increasingly important as a conference and congress venue. Since spring 2005, the CNN CongressCenter Nürnberg has fulfilled highest demands with its overall capacity of 11,000 seats.

Hanover is one of the leading Exhibition Cities in the world. Each year Hanover hosts more than 60 international and national exhibitions.

The people of Hannover are well known to be warm-hearted hosts. The city welcomed its first trade fair visitors as long ago as 1947. Since then, the Hannover Fair has developed into the biggest exhibition of capital goods in the world.

Experience the exciting mixture that is Istanbul, a city where East meets West, the bridge between Europe and Asia, a thriving metropolis of millions of people - exotic yet distinctly Western.

 

Historically, Istanbul has always been the centre of the Turkey’s economy due of its strategic location at an important junction of land and sea trade routes. Today the city is the lynchpin of the country’s success: Istanbul employs 20% of Turkey's industrial labour and contributes 38% of Turkey's industrial workspace; it generates 55% of Turkey's trade, it contributes 40% of all taxes collected in Turkey and produces around 25% of Turkey's GDP.