Beach & Boat

The first trade fair of the year in the central German water sports market, the Beach & Boat provides an extensive range of water sports offers in time for the beginning of the season. It is an ideal presentation platform for vendors and prime source of information and products for aquatic sports enthusiasts from Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia and the neighbouring federal states.

The range of offers at the Beach & Boat:

• Sailing
• Motorboats
• Canoeing
• Rowing
• Surfing
• Kite surfing
• Water-skiing/wakeboarding
• Jet-ski/jet-boat
• Diving
• Angling
• Swimming
• Beach sports
• Water tourism
• Boat equipment and accessories

Organiser: Leipziger Messe GmbH
Messe-Allee 1
04356 Leipzig

Advisory Sponsor for Beach & Boat Business (Seeland Convention): Marketing-Gesellschaft Oberlausitz-Niederschlesien mbH /Grüner Ring Leipzig

Project Director:
Peggy Schönbeck
Telefon: +49 (0) 341 678-88 61
E-Mail: p.schoenbeck (at) leipziger-messe.de

Marketing Officer:
Stefan Thienel
Telefon: +49 (0) 341 678-88 63
E-Mail: s.thienel (at) leipziger-messe.de

The Beach & Boat is the fair for the water sports sector, offering visitors an extensive range of products and services for leisure activities in and on the water.

It is a shopping paradise for aquatic sports enthusiasts, who can obtain information about new products, purchase boats and other water sports equipment or acquire the accessories to match: all in good time for the start of the new season. Numerous promotions and offers in and on the water also encourage visitors to test, take part in competitions and generally experience the products and services.

Entrance fees

day ticket 8.50 EURO
day ticket reduced* 6.50 EURO
day ticket in advance 8.50 EURO
day ticket in advance, reduced* 6.50 EURO
ticket for groups up to 10 person à 5.50 EURO
day ticket children (7-12 years) 3.50 EURO
evening ticket (entrance Mo.-Fr. from 3 p.m.) 4.00 EURO
enviaM CARD-Owner 6.50 EURO
(* Concessions apply to schoolchildren,students, pensioners and the unemployed.)

1 Ticket = 3 Fairs
A single entry ticket is valid for HAUS-GARTEN-FREIZEIT, the Central German Handicrafts Fair and Beach & Boat.

Leipzig lies at the heart of the largest landscape construction site in Europe, creating large areas of land and water offering great potential for water tourism. Exhibitors have the opportunity to position themselves in the young, strongly-growing water sport market and to present their wares at the Beach & Boat - Wassersportmesse Leipzig.

The Beach & Boat is the presentation platform for all manner of water sports equipment, accessories and services. The water tourism section of the fair welcomes charter companies, tour operators and the operators of ports, marinas and water sports clubs to present their services.

In addition to the public event the Beach & Boat Business, held on the first day of the fair, offers potential investors an insight into the youthful yet promising water sports market of the Leipzig and Lusatian lake districts. Trades people with an interest in these locations can find contacts from the fields of politics, administration and business at the Beach & Boat Business.

Dates / prices

Dates: 17 - 20 February 2011

Location: Leipzig Exhibition Centre, Hall 5

Opening hours: daily 9.30 AM - 6.00 PM

Registration date: 30 September 2010

Prices for floor space only:
EUR 65.00 /m² until September 30, 2010
EUR 75.00 /m² as of October 1, 2010
(Prices regardless of the type of stand)

Exhibition figures Beach & Boat 2010
Exhibitors: 145
Gross space: 15,000 m²
Visitors: 15.000