Hanoi Gift Show 2019 to feature craft-making performance
A zone for craft-making performance will arranged at the Hanoi Gift Show 2019, scheduled for October 17 – 20, according to Hoang Minh Lam from the Hanoi Industrial Promotion and Development Consultancy Centre.
Customers visit a booth at the Hanoi Gift Show last year. The show this year from October 17-20 will include 650 booths featuring handicraft products. (Photo: tapchicongthuong.vn)
Hanoi (VNA) – A zone for craft-making performance will be arranged at the Hanoi Gift Show 2019, scheduled for October 17 – 20, according to Hoang Minh Lam from theHanoi Industrial Promotion and Development Consultancy Centre.
The fair, the eighth of itskind, will take place at the National Construction Planning Exhibition,including about 650 booths displaying handicraft products from traditionalhandicraft producers both at home and overseas.
The show, whichoffers export opportunities and the chance for handicraft businessesto develop in a sustainable manner, is expected to welcome 10,000 visitorsas well as hundreds of importers from many countries and territories.
A Hanoi Gift Show 2019, to support business connections will be heldduring the event, expected to hostabout 1,000 handicraft importers and producers, along with a workshop on markettrends in the handicraft industry.
It will alsoinclude a zone for display ofproducts made with artistic creativity, exquisite design and superbworkmanship, Lam added.
Exhibitors at the annualtrade fair will be supported to open booths free of charge and participate inthe Match-and-Meet event, said HaThi Vinh, director general of the Quang Vinh Ceramic Co., Ltd. Her company hastaken part in all seven editions of the event.
“It is a valuableopportunity,” Vinh said. “Handicraft businesses and producers in Hanoi havefound a large number of customer at little cost.”
According to Nguyen ThiLuong, director of the Hien Luong Bamboo & Rattan Export Co., Ltd,the show gives the exhibitors access to many new customers, explore themarket’s new trends and learn from others’ experience in improving managementand bringing products to the world market. –VNA
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Customers visit a booth at the Hanoi Gift Show last year. The show this year from October 17-20 will include 650 booths featuring handicraft products. (Photo: tapchicongthuong.vn) 
