Creating 280,000 job opportunities by the country's exhibition industry
President of the Iranian International Exhibitions Association: The exhibition industry has created about 280,000 direct and indirect job opportunities throughout the country.
According to the International Stone Exhibition of Iran, Ali Yarmohammadian in the general assembly of the association, which was held in the presence of the head of the Trade Development Organization, pointed to the employment rate of the exhibition industry throughout the country and added: 700 direct jobs and more than 280,000 indirect jobs have been created by the exhibition industry in the country. Many of these jobs have disappeared after the corona outbreak and activists in this field have reached the brink of unemployment and bankruptcy.
He also stressed that the corona has severely affected the exhibition industry and has led to the closure of exhibition events, adding: It has become too heavy for industry activists.
The President of the International Exhibitions Association of Iran stated that the exhibition industry was the first industry to be shut down after the corona outbreak and was the last business whose restrictions on reactivation were lifted: This event caused the activists in the exhibition field very difficult conditions and Endure hardship and miss out on many of the job opportunities created; According to estimates, the country's exhibition industry has suffered more than 1250 billion rials in financial losses following the outbreak of coronary heart disease.
According to Yarmohammadian, more than 500 exhibition titles were held in the country in 1398, but after the corona outbreak and until the end of the first six months of this year, only 30 exhibition titles were held.
Yarmohammadian emphasized that the exhibition companies of the country have made every effort to strictly observe the health protocols in holding exhibition events, and specified: The health supervisors of the Ministry of Health and the universities of medical sciences of the provinces have approved the protocols applied in holding exhibition events. Unfortunately, we see that health protocols are not observed in the passages, shopping malls and markets.
The head of the Trade Development Organization of Iran, emphasizing the influential role of the exhibition industry on the country's economy, said: "Since the holding of exhibition events due to the spread of the corona, the prosperity of businesses and markets has also disappeared."
Hamid Zadboom called for more provincial exhibition companies to play a role in the economic planning of the provinces and added: "I will task the heads of the provincial industry, mining and trade organizations to assign a special place for planning and policy-making of the economic roadmap to the exhibition companies."
He continued: "Trade Development Organization is ready to provide the conditions for holding specialized and semi-specialized exhibitions in full compliance with health standards and protocols so that we do not see any more losses for the country's exhibition industry."
* ISNA
