Exhibition World Issue 3 — 2020 | Page 9

Welcome rch back in Asia playing a leading role and coordinating strategy in the tier 2 city of Changsha to ensure the comeback of the Hunan Auto Show went without hitches in a safe environment. It was the first tradeshow to return and the first blueprint of how a show should look in the new normal. EW online explained the process on its website at the time, which saw visitors checked before even turning up at the Changsha venue. Equipped with health codes and using technology, organisers ensured a smart registration and a smart routing of visitors and the disinfecting of the whole tradeshow with exacting protocols. Now we have our frameworks and successful case studies (including the Architecture show at KINTEX, Korea) that show how things should be done, let us take more firm steps forward and prepare the way for the return of international events when travel permits. Paul Colston Managing Editor Twitter: @ExhibitionWorld @paulcolston bal Account Director: Iain Stirling; Global Account Manager: Jon Howell; yna Smirnova; Production Manager: Elizabeth Nixon. 1152, Advertising: +44(0)20 8481 1122, Production:+44(0)20 8971 1132. arket House, 17 Union Street, Kingston Upon Thames, KT1 1RP, UK. 481 1144, Email: info@mashmedia.net . No part of this publication may be reproduced without the lishers. Printed by Pensord Press Ltd. Issue 3 2020 5