ExpoRiva Caccia Pesca Ambiente 2015, a birthday to remember! The Riva del Garda event turned 10 years exceeding the target of 15.000 visitors, enjoying considerable success with the public and sales.
The ten-year edition of ExpoRiva Hunting Fishing Environment. In fact, the fair dedicated to alpine hunting and selection and the art of fishing exceeds the target it had set by registering 15.312 admissions (+ 9% on the 2014 edition). “On the eve, we set a goal - declared the President of Riva del Garda Fierecongressi Roberto Pellegrini - and we are happy to have reached it. All this, despite the difficult time they are going through is the sector of hunting both of fishing. I am convinced that we close with the plus sign, thanks to the great work that allows us to offer many different attractive factors that are harmoniously combined in the fair event ". Indeed, for hunters, ExpoRiva Hunting Fishing Environment it is increasingly a special event, with an unrivaled mix of commercial proposals, folklore, collateral initiatives, cultural events: in Riva you can breathe hunting and breathe Central Europe. In an even more suggestive atmosphere in this tenth edition. The proposed technical and cultural events are of absolute importance, in a very rich calendar. On the first day of opening Assoarmieri, with "Franchi Food Academy", presented a meeting dedicated to "Nutritional values - game and haute cuisine, development and promotion of the territory through the enhancement of hunted game".
This is followed by the unprecedented round table between operators of the hunting media, led by Massimo Vallini, on the theme "Communicating hunting - Present and future of hunting publishing". The Riva fair is now a privileged meeting place for track dog handlers. This year the market exhibition hosted an international gathering with the participation of Austrian, Swiss and Slovenian groups and 12 Italian provinces. With it, two major events for specialists: a meeting entitled "Recovery of the injured animal, a primary duty" and the third edition of the "Incontri di Riva del Garda" a very popular annual round table, this year dedicated to the training of the conductor, with prestigious speakers not only Italians.
As always a success was the "Half an hour with the expert", a series of debate meetings with prominent figures in the hunting environment, which in the tenth edition also had the pleasure of hosting NikoFux, German miss huntress 2014 who is very well known in the her country for communicative activities aimed at children, and Vera de Geus Dutch professional hunter. Great public success (almost 1.000 votes in the urn) for “Expo Riva Scheiben”, the international exhibition / competition for painters who make traditional targets in painted wood, alongside a solo exhibition by the master Claudio Menapace. The theme of the competition was “The wild boar conquers the Alps”. Numerous artists participated, and the Austrian HubertProchaska won the absolute first prize.
The faunal photography exhibition with shots Riccardo Camusso, Roland Innerkofler and Alessandro Seletti is also very popular. There was also the literary appointment with the VIII edition of the International Literary Competition "Giacomo Rosini - Stories of hunting and life in the mountains" promoted and organized by Ars Venandi, won this year by Ivan Bettina Piazza and Mauro Cattalini.
It was obviously the edition of the celebrations, culminating in the great gala dinner, in the Salone delle Feste of the Casino of Arco which proved to be the perfect place to reward Thirteen loyal companies that, since the first edition, have taken part as an exhibitor at the fair. . Recognitions also went to the people who, with their contribution in these ten editions, have ensured that the fair grew to become a real point of reference for enthusiasts, hunters and fishermen, for the companies exhibiting. A party enlivened by the extraordinary group of horn players JHBG Maltatal from Carinthia, one of the numerous ensembles from all over Central Europe that have, as always, been the soundtrack to the great exhibition for "high hunting" that is celebrated in Riva del Garda . The horns will sound, then, for the next eleventh edition, in March 2016!
(April 1, 2015)
ExpoRiva Hunting Fishing Environment