The Geneva Motor Show, held every spring in early March, will also be canceled in 2023, for the fourth consecutive year. However, unlike previous years, organizers have announced that the Geneva Motor Show will be held in late 2023 in Doha, Qatar. The event will be called the Geneva International Motor Show Qatar.

After 2015, in the big European salons – Geneva, Paris, Frankfurt – more and more brands decided not to participate due to the high costs and also because it was concluded that the salon no longer helped both the brand image and sales, because it was in the past.

The salon was extremely important: for example, a record number of visitors was reached in 2005 – 747 thousand people, and in 2011 – 735 thousand.

In 2020, the Geneva exhibition was canceled due to the pandemic, literally a week before its start, and it was a big scandal, because many companies had already spent millions of dollars on the organization.

In 2021 and 2022, the exhibition was canceled again, also due to the pandemic and some lawsuits, and in 2023, when the exhibition was supposed to take place between February 14 and 19 at Palexpo Geneva, another postponement is coming.

Organizers are citing an uncertain economic situation and say they will stage a new show in November 2023 in Doha, Qatar. The event will be called the Geneva International Motor Show in Qatar, the Standing Committee of the Geneva International Motor Show announced.

The city of Doha was chosen for a reason. Qatar is a rich country, there is great interest in such salons.

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