Appreciable reduction

At ISH, the international trade fair for bathrooms, heating and air-conditioning that came to the end of its five-day run on 7 March 2009, the organisers Messe Frankfurt counted a total of 202 000 visitors. This compares with the 217 000 guests who came to Frankfurt am Main in 2007, and amounts to a reduction of around 7 per cent. The Frankfurt exhibition site was fully booked, as it had been for the previous event in 2007 (2 372 exhibitors) by 2 361 companies from 58 countries,