Caravan Salon will go ahead - Practical Motorhome

The organisers of Caravan Salon, Europe’s biggest motorhome fair, say the show will definitely go ahead this September now that federal and state governments have given approval for it to do so.

The exhibition, which takes place in Düsseldorf, has been moved back a week into September, by which time German lockdown rules should have been relaxed.

A conference of German federal and state governments has now agreed that trade exhibitions that follow their hygiene guidelines should be allowed to go ahead, so the exhibition will now run from 4 to 13 September.

Caravan Salon Stephan Koschke said, “With our measures, we can guarantee seamless contact tracking on the exhibition grounds and have developed a sustainable hygiene concept in close cooperation with the authorities.”

The Erwin Hymer Group has already said it will not be taking any of its brands to Caravan Salon or any other European show this autumn. Thetford and Lippert Components have followed suit. But Knaus Tabbert will be going.

PeterBaber

Peter Baber is Reviews Editor of both Practical Motorhome and Practical Caravan. He has been reviewing motorhomes for the best part of a decade now. His first caravan reviews date back to the early 1990s when he first worked on Practical Caravan, before he embarked on a 20-year career in business journalism which saw him edit a wide variety of magazines, and launch a few too, including one that won an award. Although he enjoyed that, he always knew he wanted to come back. Peter reports on all the new models that make it to dealer forecourts each season, giving his judgement online and in magazine reviews. He has twice been shortlisted for a Caravan Writers Guild award. When he is not working, apart from going on motorhome trips himself (mostly local to where he lives in West Yorkshire, but also last year right across France) he likes trying to write novels, cooking, throwing the odd pot, and has just taken up tennis.