Fuar İzmir

Fuar İzmir sits in Gaziemir, on the southern edge of İzmir on the Aegean coast of Turkey, close to the ring road and about 8 km from Adnan Menderes International Airport. It was established on 25 March 2015 and is operated by İZFAŞ, the city's fair services company founded in 1990, and it carries forward a local tradition that İZFAŞ traces to the 9 September exhibitions held in Kültürpark, which it describes as Turkey's first international fair. That lineage is the venue's historical significance: İzmir was a fair city before most of Anatolia had exhibition halls, and Fuar İzmir was built to give that tradition modern, purpose-built infrastructure. İZFAŞ describes the complex as Turkey's largest, newest and most modern fair centre, and it opened with Marble, the international natural stone fair, as its first event. The site covers 330,000 sq m and contains four exhibition halls with modern technical services, 119,400 sq m of indoor and outdoor exhibition space, a 15,600 sq m foyer, four seminar rooms, five meeting rooms, an open-air exhibition area, an amphitheatre, a fair square and a fair street, plus cafés and restaurants across 16,000 sq m. Parking covers 93,000 sq m for 2,500 vehicles. Architecturally the halls are large-span, daylit volumes arranged along internal streets, with the amphitheatre and square giving the campus a public face. Transport is a strong point: İZBAN commuter trains connect the fairground with central İzmir and the airport, the ring road and motorway network keep coaches and trucks out of city traffic, and the airport is about ten minutes by taxi.