One location – one company – two fields of business. Hamburg Messe und Congress GmbH is a company offering a full service for the organisation and holding of national and international trade fairs and congresses. One of its special benefits is that the two areas of business are two independent, highly professional units that can be utilised together perfectly due to their proximity to one another. The trade fair site is physically connected to the CCH – Congress Center Hamburg by a covered passage through the “Planten un Blomen” park. A five-minutes' walk is all it takes to join trade fairs with congresses. The synergies arising from this close interlinking of trade fair and congress facilities benefit organisers and visitors alike. Hamburg Messe und Congress GmbH sees itself as a service provider in the broadest sense of the term. That includes services which have been greatly expanded over the past few years, and which will continue to be added to and improved over the years to come.

Whether highly specialised trade fairs or consumer exhibitions which attract large numbers of the general public – the diversity of the Hamburg Messe portfolio of events reflects the breadth of the services offered. Hamburg Messe has achieved an international reputation through its extremely successful trade fairs and exhibitions. More and more organisers are recognising the particularly attractive location of the site, and select it for holding outstanding guest events. The core competence of the Hamburg Messe is also recognised abroad. Since 1987, a competent team has been in charge of many events on all continents of the world. The emphasis for this activity is currently in organising the participation in trade fairs and in sales promotion campaigns. The foreign programme is dedicated to a few, highly specialised topics: ship & boat building, food & hotels as well as oil & gas.

Following the new construction of a 7000 square metre multi-function exhibition hall and the associated conference area, the CCH-Congress Center Hamburg has regained its top position in international competition.

This modern conference centre has expanded its exhibition space to a total of 10,000 square metres with the new hall, which fully meets the requirements of the international conference and meetings business. Together with the new conference area, the CCH has more than 23 fully air-conditioned conference rooms, some of them suitable for partitioning, and seats a total of 12,500 people, including 6000 in the new exhibition hall. Despite this, the compact design means that everything is still close together at the CCH, with conferences and exhibitions near to one another, and all on one level. That makes the CCH ideal for large international conferences accompanied by extensive trade shows.