After one day and 10 hours from now, on Oct. 16th, the doors of K 2019 halls will be opened to thousands of thirsty visitors of latest plastics and rubber technology and science who are counting down to enter at Dusseldorf’s K 2019 trade fair and to be at the last stops of trains and buses at the exhibition stations.
Like last 34 years, the PIM media (for this news channel since 2016) were alert for editing the best news and reports about the exhibition and its sidelines. However, this year was awful for the PIM group, because not only the CEO of this channel but also 2/3 of the traditional Iranian visitors missed their chance. Why? you will read the first sideline.
Except some photos from the last stands constructions, we don’t have any special news or photo (at least for the first day of the K) right now because at the international arena those who are interested to this biggest plastics and rubber exhibition know that the best and the last news are covered by the K Portal and our coverage would be wasting of time and energy. However, PIMI is reporting the main sideline at this article and then the received press releases from the exhibitors. though, we will also have coverage, reports and photos from PIMI and PIMW correspondents that will arrive there from London and Germany on Oct. 19th.
During each period of the K we have our system of visitor counting and estimation on a 10% up or downward deviation. This year our survey from the same sources show that about 2/3 of the traditional K visitors have missed it, even our CEO which has a record of 10 consecutive visits to the K exhibition. But, is this due to the results of the sanctions, being hopeless for any trade negotiation or high rates for the hard currency? We can’t say that these reasons didn’t have any effect, but the main factor that affected such an Iranian visitor decline for this year’s K, has been the visa refusal for many business and media individuals. How?
Since operation of the visa centres for many EU countries in Iran, the Iranian travel agencies which their high turnovers are dependent to the tour operations tried to influence to these centres and our documented survey shows that they have had a great success, specially with the German’s related visa centre. This influence, with regards to the limitations of the total number of visas that a Consulate can issue per month, has resulted to manipulations ending to visa refusal for individuals (alike all countries, Iranian business people do not arrange their trips with a travel agency’s popular tour) and allocating the visa shares to the travel agencies in contact with them.
A short analysis show that this year’s of the K 2019 (at least for the Iranian visitors) is now under the shadow of the speculations and corruption on relations of the visa centre for Germany and the German Consulate. Since we can’t be just sorry, we have decided to follow the case and for sure share our findings with our readers.
What we have from the K 2019 right now is some photos from the latest stand constructions.
The first article about the last K show published at PIMI news channel was: The World Awaits K 2016 Opening
Related Article: PIM, PIME and PIMI Team at the Opening Press Conference of K 2016
