Specimens you will find at FITUR
EXHIBITORS
Beings that inhabit the colored central areas of the best stands. A strange and inaccessible terrain for the most worldly delimited by a border of counters and happy but forceful decoration.
1. Important people. It is impossible to see them. They are ministers, heads of tourist offices, VIPs (yes, there are) who hide behind the walls of the hearts of the stands and who can only be viewed on advance request . There are those who theorize about his non-existence, about whether his figure is a myth that elevates a country/region/tourist company.
two. Less important people. Yes, you can see them, but they are sitting on chairs. FITUR is their moment of glory, the moment in which they would call their families to tell about their experience, in which they put on that suit that they brought folded in the suitcase. They have everything rehearsed: how to get up, how to offer a seat, how to greet and, above all, how to comfortably dispatch the umpteenth visitor who has confused Austria with Australia.
3. Responders. In real life they usually have important jobs (press officers, tourism technicians, etc.). Not here. Here the only thing they do is answer, distribute cards and solutions without complicating their lives. Their means of locomotion is by foot and they are the typical ones that, at the end of a fair, they swear and perjure not to return. Until December of the following year, when a boss catches them offside after the question: “This year you will go to FITUR, right?”.
Four. Waiters . His job is simple: bring what any of the above asks without question. usually eat free on the sly and they have nothing to do with the exhibitor.
5. Hostesses. They greet, they distribute, they look for a responder and they leave you. effective . Don't ask them for more.
6. carnivals. Dantesque evolution of the stewardess. They are the consequence of a day of various drinks between leaders that end with the sentence: "We have to bring a countryman dressed in the typical costume of Churritictlan to FITUR." That is, loincloth and hat. Of course, the TVs and the visitors love them. A natural evolution (and very Latin American) is to take the Miss of the day to show off.
7. The musicians. Underpaid but with a smile. Don't let anyone ask them for a statement because they may find out that Dimitri, the one from Balalaika, is a man from Monzón named Eusebio.
8. Indigenous. Leaders who defend the native culture wearing the typical costumes . Very laudable action as long as they are not confused with a carnival.
9. “What's a guy like me doing in a place like this? ”. Lost eyes, distracted look and infinite anger. He does not find his niche between the stewardesses and the solvers.
10. The successful giver. The one that has caused that infinite queue thanks to his tropical juice or his Playmobil Mozart figurine. Come home without a budget for more actions , but with the guarantee that his present is already in all the storage rooms in Spain.
PROFESSIONALS
Honorable beings looking to do business.
eleven. Direct. He colonizes without asking or greeting the stand that interests him. He usually gets to important people fast and eats for free. Many times he will only mark territory.
12. The suit. Less skillful than direct. Patient and with a smile on his face, he goes through all the levels of exhibitors, asks hostesses, troubleshooters and carnival goers until he manages to sit down with the least important people. They are from the same habitat. Business sharks capable of saying 832,193 bullshit with English terms and go home with nothing.
13. The hall. It's about doing business boarding in the aisle, when the exhibitor has left the pack and can't defend himself. Aggressive, get at least one real card , of those that carry the mobile included.
14. The excited. He is usually a beginner, he has managed to sneak into many stands, get promises, return e-mails, etc. Come on he comes home excited although reality gives him an “indeed and… No! ” of manual.
fifteen. The disoriented. He doesn't know where to start. Nor that he will end up drunk on a stool in the self-service hall 6. Beware, networking is also done there.
JOURNALISTS
16. The early professional. He arrives, plants the camera, they take their totals and leave. Come on, as if they had gone to Playa de la Concha to record the bad weather like every Tuesday.
17. The professional seeks advertisers. He does interviews, contacts, feels the atmosphere, broadcasts live programs... Come on, he looks for advertisers but with greater subtlety.
18. The professional-professional. His only interest is to measure the temperature of tourism, assess the figures, question the declarations HAHAHAHAHA no! They don't exist, they are unicorns!
19. The Blogger. He spends the whole holy day Tweeting, Posting, Instagramming and begging for Wi-Fi and a plug where he can recharge his mobile. oh and always with that tender look which is not yet believed to have been officially accredited.
twenty. The cane stand He has a busy schedule with all the gastronomic or canapés events. You have to be worth it and stoically endure the wine and beer from 12,908 different regions.
twenty-one. The photographer. He goes with a camera and super lens because that way he thinks he's more of a journalist and more respectable...
22. The star. He mixes his status with his kindness and their shared anecdotes. He manages to enter all the stands, elegantly arrive late to the soirees and monopolize a conversation between another colleague and a press officer. Always with arrogant apologies, always with a false smile.
23. The old glory. He is tired of being a star. He now complains about how poorly they pay and how little they use his photographs in X medium.
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FAIR TOURISTS
24. The “what is this?” . He prefers to ask at any counter rather than get carried away by the posters and evidence. Would anyone think of identifying dragons, red pagodas and Mandarin letters with a country other than China?
25. The gangster. Replaces the previous question with a "What are they giving away here?". He knows the corresponding survival guide by heart.
26. The applied. He goes with a map, with a map!! And even with his wonderful guide to not miss any event. The rancher's best friend.
27. The dissembler. He endures about two minutes of talk, he asks his corresponding false questions of the type: "What would you recommend from X site?" to finish asking for the gift . Or the color map. Or the poster. Or the pen. Or whatever.
28. The amazed. Everything seems wonderful to him. Even the folk dances, the fossil exhibition or that Arabic cake made of sand.
29. The papier-mâché traveler. Kind of amazed but more 2.0. His only goal at the fair is to take photos with the most paradisiacal backgrounds and with the best-dressed carnival goers. Seriously, no one has warned you about how ridiculous it is? He is the typical one who takes snapshots at the photocalls of the clubs in his town. Why do all the nightclubs in the towns have photocalls? That is another story.
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