In USA there are plenty of events for the people with any interests and financial resources. You can find purely entertaining shows, commercial exhibitions and events that are focused on customers. If you are planning to buy a boat and you want to do this as fast as possible without being distracted with entertainment and various presentations, you should visit a conference center of Minneapolis. Here yacht  and boat show takes place yearly in the second half of January.

The exhibition lasts four days and presents hundreds of motorboats and yachts, engines and electronic systems, appliances and accessories. Every stand here deserves your attention.

The history of this show is more than forty years old, but a program of the exhibition varies from year to year.

Minneapolis Boat Show suggests you every possible opportunity for the purchase. The choice is extremelyy large. Vehicles of various types from boats and jet-skis to large yachts for any taste and budget.

This boat show has its own program that includes entertaining activities and musical performances. Organizers take care of meals, accommodation and leisure time of the guests. Coming to Minneapolis you would not find it difficult to find a room in the hotel despite the large amount of guests.

When we speak about Dubai, we imagine exclusive hotels, cars for which luxury actually seem s to be poor, artificial islands and … of course, magnificent mega yachts. If you come here in the beginning of March to look at the most expensive personal boats in the world, you won’t feel disappointed.

Dubai International Boat Show is not the largest yacht festival. But it is the undisputed leader in the world of super yachts. At this event you won’t see many exclusive, huge, magnificent boats. And it is not surprising.

Dubai International Marine Club is the organizer of the show, the largest sea club of Dubai. It is not the only event that takes place in this club. Races and regattas take place regularly with the participation of experienced yachtsmen from all around the world.

Every year the quantity of boats in Mina Seyahi, small and quite harbor near the artificial archipelago, grows. In 2014 people from 50 countries arrived here from all over the world, and the number of mega-yachts exceeded two dozens. Many of those are manufactured exclusively for the citizens of the United Arab Emirates, or in the Emirates.

People come to this boat show not only to make a purchase though, of course, this cannot be excluded and is even welcomed, but to have an opportunity to look at yachts and to join, at least temporarily, this luxury world. Luxury where mahogany finishing looks cheap.

There are a lot of yachtsmen who can judge about the quality of luxury boats. Regular tourists are also coming to the show.

Dubai International Boat Show is a vanity fair, where anyone can expose their boat. Here you can  bargain for a yacht as well.

Members of the club take organization of the show seriously, equal attention is payed to both participants and corporate visitors that are somehow connected with yacht business. The show is interesting for both yachtsmen and regular tourists who look for new impressions. Even if you happened to be at the largest festivals before, Dubai is worth visiting as it guarantees you the best impressions possible. Each show organized here has «a highlight» for everyone. Hundreds of millions dollars are spent to simply please the audience. And it is worth paying a tribute to these efforts: this festival is really interesting. It is interesting, perhaps, to anybody who would like to see the most expensive yachts in the world.

Кansas City attracts not only yachtsmen. In the end of January all the amateurs of water sports such as fishing, hunting and tourism. Kansas City Boat & Sportshow meets thousands of visitors yearly suggesting them hundreds of opportunities for leisure time, vacation and shopping.

Motorboats, autohouses, appliances and accessories for active tourism, fishing tackles, useful camping equipment are presented on the exhibition. All these you can see with your own eyes, to test and then to buy. Representatives of the major companies regularly visit this exhibition which allows you to discuss details with them prior to the deal.

As a sportive show this event will allow you to participate in interesting competitions, to get valuable prizes and small presents, to visit master classes and seminars dedicated to yachting, hunting and fishing.

Kansas City Boat & Sportshow takes place on fresh air and lasts four days. During this time you can stay in the hotel, rent an autohouse, or just camp outside. Catering and entertainment are well organized, therefore you can bring all your family over.

USA is one of the largest manufacturers of yachts. No surprise that even at the national boat show americans are ready to suggest a huge choice of yachts and boats of every type you can imagine: any size, any style and for any purpose. New York Boat Show will not disappoint you as at the Jacob K Javits Center venue in New York more than 1000 boats from more than 300 manufacturers are presented.

«Everything for our visitor!» is the slogan that would have been most suitable for the boat show in New York.

Ticket that you bought not only allows you to see all the yachts presented, it gives you way more than that. On every show day you can go fishing for free: either just for fun or to participate in the competition. You can watch a race or even take part in it operating a yacht with the remote control. You can also visit a workshop where boats and yachts are built. There are a lot of fun activities for children as well. One can see a legendary squirrel Twiggy waterskiing.

You can do anything here! Visit a seminar or a lecture, try to learn something new at the master class, test one of the boats that you liked most of all. Show suggests you an opportunity to make a deal or a purchase – you just cannot leave the festival empty handed! And for sure you cannot leave disappointed.

If you are an excessive tourist who loves to live actively and adores fishing than Louisville Boat, RV & Sportshow is for you. Here you can find everything for intense and interesting vacation.

First of all you will find the yachts on that show. They are located in the marina not far from the conference center where the main event takes place. All boats are very different. You can find mega yachts that even the richest man will be jealous of as well as fishing boats that will be mostly useful when cruising along the river or fishing on the lake. Sailboats are also presented from time to time.

Second thing that you cannot miss is all the equipment and accessories presented on this show. Sport, fishing in the sea and in freshwater, hunting – all these hobbies are presented on the exhibition.

Third thing that is very important as well are the stands of the various touristic agencies that will help you to organize your travel to any place in the world. You can also book a charter cruise here.

Take all your family to the festival – different games and competitions will cheer up anybody, even those not really interested in yachting.

Boat show in Louisiana takes place yearly in the last decade of January. Despite large amount of guests there is a lot of room near exhibits. You can visit the exhibition with children as they can participate in the festival for free.

The large yacht show where you can get aquatinted with the novelties and choose your perfect yacht takes place in the third decade of January in Milwaukee (state Wisconsin). Milwaukee Boat Show is accommodated in Expo-centre and attracts attention of around 100 manufacturers.

Yearly several hundreds of the sail and motorboats, equipment, various accessories that can be useful for the yachtsman are presented on the show. ShowSpan company that organizes an exhibition takes care about needs of every visitor.

Show is designed primarily for the customers that are future yacht owners. As many of the American shows do, Milwaukee Boat Show attracts attention of middle class – those who can afford only a small motorboat or sailboat, but want to get maximum comfort for their money.

This show is worth coming if you need a practical and comfortable yacht. Here you can visit the boat, enter inside the cabin and even test one of them. You  can postpone all the formalities, but if you would like to buy the boat immediately you can do it easily. Not only the manufacturers are those who present as exhibitors on this show. You can find organizations that will help you to prepare a deal, sign a loan and prepare a yacht to the journey or transport it to the destination marina.

This show can attract your attention due to the following reasons. Firstly, the name of the city that is situated way more to the South than its famous namesake. This St Petersburg is on the shore of the Mexican gulf. Secondly, the specialization of this show where the main attention is attracted to the powerboats and sailboats unlike the big festivals.

The event will take place at three venues: in Albert Whitted, in the Center for the Arts Mahaffey and at open air venue. Show is attended by  representatives of the shipyards with their own expositions, equipment and tools manufacturers, organizations that offer yachting and sailing services.

Here on the Mexican Gulf coast you will see motorboats and sailboats, motor cruisers and fishing boats, various tackles and equipment for boats. Hundreds of boats are presented on the water and in the pavilions, therefore you can find the best option for yourself and your family not limiting yourself to looking through characteristics or the poor description on web-sites

Experienced yachtsmen will also like St. Petersburg Power & Sailboat Show. You can participate in master classes, seminars and meetings with professionals. During the break you will be entertained with the live music and amazing food.

B&b format is typical for yacht festivals. Not everybody would have a courage to hold such an event: the chance of not recruiting the minimal quantity of guests when your target audience is only business environment is rather high. Nevertheless such exhibitions exist. One of them is Marine Equipment Trade Show that is running yearly in mid-November in Amsterdam.

Surprisingly there are plenty of visitors at METS – more than 20 000 people that are representatives of companies specialized in production, sales, repair and maintenance of boats, producers of accessories and equipment, other organizations that are involved in yachting in one or another way. Around one and a half thousand participants of the exhibition, dozens of seminars, conferences, business-meetings, tens of thousands square meters occupied with the boats – all these you can see on the exhibition every year. New technologies and new boats are presented here, contracts are also signed here,

New technologies and new boats are presented here, people meet and sign contracts here, one can hare his experience here and another one can get a useful advice. In just three short days one can solve a hundred of business problems, find new networking contacts, and get an idea how the market looks like for now. Visitors come to METS from all over the world, and the exhibition becomes larger and larger every year.

What is surprising is how a boat show can take place in the center of Europe, many hundreds of kilometers away from the sea? Is it possible to gather the fans of yachting and manufacturers? Especially when you exhibit large boats that are logistically difficult to transport?

If you consider that unrealistic, take vacation in January, after New Year’s holidays, apply for a Schengen visa and go to Germany. Here, in Düsseldorf that is the exhibition capital of Europe, organizers will prove you wrong.

You will be met by a cold wind and humidity as there’s nothing that can be done with the European winter that isn’t really pleasant. But as soon as you enter into Messe Dusseldorf you will be able to get warmer and plunge into the world of yachts, sea and high technologies.

Dusseldorf Boat Show is an event that won’t leave you indifferent and will give you a lot of impressions for sure.

Representatives of the largest world shipbuilders come here, new boats and yachts are represented here, here it is possible to see amazing technologies, innovative materials and coverings. There will be a place for various boat accessories, active sea sport and travelers.

Dusseldorf Boat Show is more image than entertaining event. It does not have anything in common with traditional boat show. Audience here differs from those that prevails in China and in the USA. Instead of gapers there are serious people, engineers, designers, and yachtsmen who are interested in novelties. Instead of middle class you will see experienced yachtsmen and future owners of yachts who started to miss the sea out of season, instead of the nouveau riches ready to flush money the representatives of major concerns who are interested in a business component come here.

Dusseldorf Boat Show is an exhibition of technologies. Here premiers of equipment and materials for cases that are very durable, intellectual systems, the thought-over accessories for yachts are represented. The major questions and tendencies in the field of yacht craftsmanship technologies are discussed, people share their experience and knowledge, brag the progress and sign contracts.

Future ship craftsman, beginners, and those who already have some experience will benefit from this show. It is worth coming to see the yachts of future, to get valuable knowledge and to show the practices. If to you as to the owner of the yacht, the technical component is the most interesting, Düsseldorf is worth visiting.

In the first decade of November the regular show in Fort Myers will take place. More then forty years thousands of producers and professionals in the world of yachting, future and actual owners of yachts and boats are coming yearly to this show. The exhibition is running for 4 days in the city centre. In the specially equipped swimming pool the boats of different classes and types would be presented.

The essential feature of Fort Myers Boat Show is no boundaries for exhibits. Among the visitors you can meet not only the producer but also a yacht broker, and the show itself presents not only novelties but also used yachts. May be this is the reason why this show is considered as one of the most democratic and popular.

The major topics of the exhibition are yachting, fishing, water sports, security in the sea. Not only classical boats are presented, but also house boats, pontoons, kayaks, personal watercrafts, inflatable and folding boats. There is a place for fishing gear, electronic systems and motors.

Exposition is combined with master classes, seminars and musical program. This show will be useful to professionals, experienced yachtsmen and those who are going to buy a boat.

China conquers the markets and competes with the USA, at least in its part of the world. And China manages it perfectly. Yacht world is not an exception. Of course, there are shipyards, inclusive ancient, originating in an era of great geographical discoveries, but for a long time there was no single boat show. They began to be carried out relatively recently, and by the number of participants and luxury boats can compete with the largest festivals.

One of these events is the China Xiamen International Boat Show (CXIBS). Show takes place at the beginning of November. For three days at the island of Xianmen in the gulf Wuyuanwan attracts hundreds of ship-building, serving, industrial, insurance, tourist companies and hundreds of thousands of visitors. This boat show is not backward and even not regional: people come here from all over the world.

CXIBS occupies 50 thousand square meters divided into two venues. This venue accommodates hundreds of yachts, both small fishing boats, and huge yachts that look alike liners.

Audience is one of the show sights. Perhaps only in Miami or West Palm Beach you will be able to see the audience that is so diverse in their income, society position, and occupation. One can also meet not that wealthy representatives of the middle class that is only arising in China and which takes roots from Europe, and the Asian nouveau riches who are looking for luxurious yachts for themselves, and simply romantics who are in love with the sea.

CXIBS  is a very young festival, but it is already compared with the largest American boat show. Everything that can inspire the audience can be found here.

It is worth your attention!

As it is appeared, “the Chinese show” as somebody calls this festival, is interesting not only for Asian manufacturers. The leading and world renown manufacturers releasing yachts under the brands Beneteau, Absolute, Jeanneau and dozens of others.

CXIBS is not only the boat show. It is more likely a luxury-show that promotes magnificent lifestyle, and the yacht is an attribute of this lifestyle. Expensive cars, private planes, projects of houses, luxury goods are presented here. People come to this show to choose and order the best yacht and to plunge into the world of wealth, luxury, big money as here it is not forbidden to flush the money.

The North Sea and the northern lifestyle is how one can characterize an essence of this exhibition. This is how the slogan sounds as well.

Hamburg International Boat Show Hanseboot takes place on the seashore, in the delta of Elba. Traditionally the boat show is located at the Hamburg Messe pavilions where the best manufacturers show their production.

The Baltic accent is felt everywhere: in design of pavilions, in the program that is aimed first of all to serious audience, and in the contents. More than 20 countries participate in the exhibition (it is difficult to call Hanseboot a festival or a show as the word «festival» tells more about entertaining). Hundreds of companies and thousands of visitors come here annually.

Organizers of an exhibition which that is more than 50 years old treat event policy seriously. Thoughtful approach to a choice of strategy and direction allows to achieve success every year.

Hanseboot doesn’t follow traditions, doesn’t pursue fashion, doesn’t seek to strike the viewer’s attention with mega yachts or an exact copy of Hollywood “Flying Dutchman”. There is no inch of a “show” that you can get enough of in the west of Atlantic here. Of course, Hamburg International Boat Show offer boats of different types annually, and among the boats approved in the program you can find a sailing yacht with the wooden case. Nevertheless, each exhibition has accurately verified directions. So on the 13th year of the exhibition existence everything is targeted to attract beginners that do not have a license, skills and do not want to plunge into the yacht world. The viewer will see daysailers – light and small boats for one-day sails that do not require any license. Another time it is possible to see boats cyclopean by their sizes, sailboats or exclusive central console yachts.

The attention at the Hanseboot show is paid not only to shipbuilders. Manufacturers present their expositions of accessories, electronics, engines and other equipment, developers of innovative materials and covers, and even fashion houses presenting cloths for water sports. It is possible to see stands of the charter companies, insurers, schools and many other organizations somehow connected with yachts and yachtsmen here.

Hamburg International Boat Show is an exhibition sustained in typically northern, Baltic style. Perhaps a date choice is also caused by this (as even the beginning of November is relatively cold in the north of Germany).