WAN-Ifra’s World Publishing Expo will be held in the media city of Hamburg again next year.

Organisers of the former IfraExpo and conference say the 45th event will be held from October 5-7, 2015, following consultation with exhibitors and a unanimous ‘yes’ vote.

It will be the third time the World Publishing Expo has been held in the seaport city, to which more than 10,000 delegates visited in 2010.

Hamburg is the second largest city in Germany and the eighth largest in the European Union. About 100,000 people work in media and information technology, the 23,000 companies including Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, Stern, Axel Springer Verlag, Bauer Media Group, Gruner + Jahr, Google, Facebook and Xing.

WAN-Ifra says the combination of easy access, moderate hotel prices and low auxiliary costs for exhibitors make conditions optimal for the Expo and its related conferences, including the seventh Tablet & App Summit, the 13th International Newsroom Summit, and the World Printers Forum.

More than 130 exhibitors have already booked around 6,500 m2 of exhibition space at this year’s World Publishing Expo in Amsterdam from October 13-15 October. More about this year's Expo at http://www.worldpublishingexpo.com