Marcianise (CE), 10 April 2018 - A success. It is the right definition for the debut of HUNTING SHOW SOUTH, the show dedicated to hunting and sport shooting that Italian Exhibition Group organized last weekend at the Il Tarì Center of Marcianise. An authentic party, as well as a fair event, with 10.800 visitors that between Saturday and Sunday they stormed the 2500 sqm. of exposure, occupied by the proposal of 80 companies leader in gun production, but also in accessories and services. The novelty of the shooting lines, eight, set up in an external area adjacent to the Tarì, was appreciated. Opened by Vincent Giannotti (President of Centro Il Tarì), by the Regional Councilor John Zannini and Conrad Facco (General Manager Italian Exhibition Group), South Hunting Show also saw the presence of the President of the Campania Region Vincenzo De Luca and the Mayor of Marcianise Antonello Velardi.
The challenge was therefore already won at the first edition and now Central Southern Italy has its new structured and reference exhibition for the supply chain. IEG and the companies in the sector - a sector that in Italy is worth 7,3 billion and employs almost 90.000 employees - have in fact hit the target of serving the demand of the 'hunting and shooting planet' on a territory with an extraordinary hunting tradition, which now has the annual opportunity to meet technological innovation and new productions. The exhibitors unanimously underlined the excellent future potential, also underlining the fundamental opportunity to try out the new products in the shooting ranges. A commercial and organizational success: the center of gravity of the Centro Il Tarì ensured easy accessibility; the quality of the structures allowed the perfect reception of exhibitors and guests. The first time at Tarì of a trade fair event with such flows of visitors gave excellent feedback. To animate the two days of South Hunting Show the initiatives dedicated to two cultural components that enrich the hunter's baggage have contributed: hunting dog lovers and falconry.
The intervention of retriever school, a specialized center for the training and breeding of retriever and hunting dogs, has staged spectacular and educational demonstrations of dexterity in retrieving, searching and obedience alongside the hunter. Labrador Retriever, Golden Retriever and Springer Spaniel are dogs that have always been protagonists next to man in numerous hunting actions. The team of Falconers of the King, with hawks, buzzards and owls shown to the public and released in flight, as well as told for their historical role in hunting. The evolutions of birds of prey have infected the public, come into contact with the most ancient and noble of the forms of hunting. A discipline born and developed right in the southern lands, where in the thirteenth century the emperor Frederick II composed the "De arte venandi cum avibus”, A real treatise on falconry.