{"id":118773,"date":"2020-02-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/itb-berlin-tourism-fair-cancelled-over-coronavirus-fears\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T17:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T15:37:14","slug":"itb-berlin-tourism-fair-cancelled-over-coronavirus-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/itb-berlin-tourism-fair-cancelled-over-coronavirus-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"ITB Berlin Tourism Fair Cancelled Over Coronavirus Fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The most important and most visited tourism fair in the world, ITB Berlin, scheduled for the beginning of March, has been cancelled amid fears related to the coronavirus, after several exhibitors, including from China, withdrew in recent days.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Out of a total of about 10,000 expected exhibitors, 22 would have come from China, and 25 were arriving from Hong Kong and Taiwan, according to Berliner Zeitung.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It was previously announced that Germany is at the beginning of a coronavirus epidemic, after the appearance of new cases that can no longer be linked to the original source of the virus in China.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.profit.ro\" data-wplink-url-error=\"true\">Profit<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Why was ITB Berlin cancelled?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The event was cancelled due to rising concerns over the coronavirus outbreak and the withdrawal of numerous international exhibitors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How many exhibitors were expected at the event?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Approximately 10,000 exhibitors were expected to participate, including dozens from China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the current health situation in Germany?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At the time of the announcement, Germany was reported to be at the start of a coronavirus epidemic with cases no longer traceable to the original source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most important and most visited tourism fair in the world, ITB Berlin, scheduled for the beginning of March, has been cancelled amid fears related to the coronavirus, after several exhibitors, including from China, withdrew in recent days. Out of a total of about 10,000 expected exhibitors, 22 would have come from China, and 25&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":67998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2858],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-118773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tourism"],"article_style_override":"","post-style":"","post_via":"","post-top-image":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/turism-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118773"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=118773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}