dispatches from K Show 2013
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Results from the visitor survey showed that the international flair of visitors has risen again: 58%, i.e. 126,000 trade visitors, came from abroad - travelling to Düsseldorf from as far away as Angola, Burkina Faso, the Falkland Islands, the Yemen, Malawi, Nepal, New Caledonia, Oman, Peru and Turkmenistan.
The proportion of trade visitors from Asia accounted for the largest group of foreign visitors – some 30,000 specialists came from South, East and Central Asia and from the Near and Middle East.
Visitors from India were the largest group to the fair while the number of trade visitors from China, Indonesia, Iran, Japan and Taiwan rose.
The previous event in 2010 saw 222,486 visitors and 3,094 exhibitors taking part.
