History
The initiative for a national hospitality exhibition was taken in 1953 by Gerrit Staalman, who pled for a such an exhibition in hospitaly magazine Misset Horeca, for which he was an advisor. In 1957 a first exihibition is held, organised by the Dutch Trade fair organisation. From 1959 the exposistion is held in the Rai building. The fair has since then grown to the point where only those who are professionally active in hospitality are allowed as visitors in 1995. From this year on, large brewers, coffee producers, and large kitchen exposers decide to attend the fair only bi-annually, on even years, on what is known as a "wet" Horecava, odd years being called "dry". Since 2008 Horecava tries to slowly abolish the distinction.
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