Advance registrations surpass all expectations
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World-wide participants
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Preliminary registration figures: two out of three participants come from Europe, one in seven from
North America, one in ten from Asia.
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(IPVS)
The 18th world congress of pig veterinarians meets with overwhelming interest.
A good four months before its opening in Hamburg at the end of June, over 1,100 par-ticipants from around
the world have already registered. The organ-iser, the International Pig Veterinary Society (IPVS), was
expecting 1,500 participants from science, research and practice. IPVS presi-dent Henning Bossow assesses
the registration figures optimisti-cally: "It's unusual to have so many registrations at such an early
stage. I can no longer exclude the possibility of many more partici-pants coming to the congress than we
were expecting." The dead-line for early booking discounts expired on 15th February.
Part of the congress now in Spanish
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Just under one in eight of the European participants comes from one of the Central and Eastern European
States (CEE states).
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As the congress in is taking place in Hamburg, the number of registrations from European countries is
higher than average: with a share of 68%, two out of three participants come from Europe. One in seven
guests comes from the USA or Canada, and one in ten from Asia. Just under ten percent of visitors are
from Spanish or Portuguesespeaking countries. The organisers are reacting quickly and flexibly to the
large numbers of registrations from these countries: the high level of interest means that the
"Practitioner's Line," to be held this year for the first time, will also be simultaneously translated
into Spanish (only a German-English translation was previously planned).
Keen interest also from Central and Eastern Europe
The political changes in central and Eastern Europe are reflected in the registration figures. The share
of the socalled CEE states in the registrations from Europe is around 12%, meaning that just under one
in eight European participants is an Eastern European. Registrations have already been received from
Serbia, Croatia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Slovenia and the Czech Republic.
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