At the entrance of visitors -
F. Binacchi / ANP / 20 Minutes
The Heavent meetings congress is held in Cannes on Tuesday and Wednesday.
This is the first large-scale exhibition organized in France with the new health rules.
"It's not really practical for business," sighs an exhibitor.
In dates, normally, we prefer to see facial expressions.
It's easier with a client.
"Tuesday in Cannes, in the aisles of the Heavent Meetings trade fair, the first international congress in France to be held since the deconfinement, we had to learn to compose… with the mask.
In the aisles of the show, Tuesday morning - F. Binacchi / ANP / 20 Minutes
Obviously mandatory, personal protection was one of the
sine qua non
conditions
for the resumption of business tourism in the city of festivals, heavily impacted by the cancellations of serial events.
Posters everywhere
This reboot fair, therefore, devoted to events, brings together 1,850 people until Wednesday evening at the Palais des Festivals, ie "roughly the same attendance as last year", rejoices Romuald Gadrat, the president and founder. of the event.
Signs reminding barrier gestures are presented in the lounge - F. Binacchi / ANP / 20 Minutes
And (almost) no one seemed reluctant to apply the barrier measures, recalled in full and across in all communication media and posters.
Kiosks also offer hydroalcoholic gel throughout the convention center.
Cocktails prohibited
“We had to adapt.
We can no longer make cocktails, dancing, buffet.
But people are playing the game. Events are one of the sectors most affected by the crisis and there is great motivation to restart the machine, ”he explains.
Hydroalcoholic gel is even offered by hostesses - F. Binacchi / ANP / 20 Minutes
And in the aisles of the professional meeting, for those whose mask would tend to slip, a voice regularly reminds the microphone that its wearing "on the mouth and nose is mandatory.
"" Our teams are also mobilized to issue small reminders to order, specifies Romuald Gadrat.
There are also people behind the palace cameras who can intervene if groups without masks form outside the building, for example ”.
The convention center has just announced that it has obtained the “Covid-19 business ready” label.
A certification comprising "a hundred checkpoints" and on which Cannes relied to bring back business tourists.
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