drupa 2012 Provides Trendsetting Impulses for Print Sector

With more than 190,000 visitors from counties other than Germany, the international focus of drupa continued at a very high level. The second largest visitor nation after Germany (123,000 visitors) was India (some 15,000 attendees), followed by Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Great Britain, the United States, Switzerland and Italy. The drupa organizers were particularly pleased about the increase of visitors from South and Central America (8.8 percent in 2012 compared to seven percent in 2008)—specifically from Brazil. With approximately 2,400 journalists from 75 nations participating in drupa 2012, representatives from the press were also very international.