HITEC Exhibition Centre Hyderabad

HITEX, the Hyderabad International Trade Expositions Limited, occupies a 53-acre purpose-built campus at Izzat Nagar in western Hyderabad, Telangana, beside the HITEC City and Gachibowli office districts that made the city a pharmaceutical, IT and defence-manufacturing hub. It opened in 2003 and has since hosted more than 2,000 national and international events, which makes it the principal exhibition address for Telangana rather than a converted hall. The indoor venue consists of four column-free halls: Halls 1, 2 and 3 at 3,500 sqm each, and Hall 4 at 8,000 sqm, giving 18,500 sqm in total. Hall 4 seats up to 8,000 theatre-style, while the smaller halls take 2,500 each. Outdoors, a 5,000 sqm lawn is supplemented by 35,000 sqm of paved event space and open ground, enough for construction equipment, agricultural machinery and vehicle demonstrations. The halls are practical rather than decorative — clear spans, advanced ventilation, separate public and freight entries and multiple loading points — and the campus includes a Trade Fair Office Building, conference rooms and organisers' offices. Architecturally it is a low-rise exhibition estate: four rectangular sheds with metal roofs arranged around landscaped grounds and service yards, with the office building as the only formal frontage. Rajiv Gandhi International Airport is about 35 km away, roughly an hour by road, and the Outer Ring Road and the Blue Line metro at HITEC City connect the site to the rest of the city.