Salone del LIbre Turin Book Fair Hostess Hire 2026

Turin Hostess Agency for hire at Salone Internazionale del Libro di Torino

Exhibition Girls Limited are looking forward to a busy exhibition supporting international clients at the upcoming tradeshow.

We are the leading exhibition and tradeshow staff hostess agency globally for tradeshow stand support – and have a diverse range of services including hospitality, sales staff, multi-lingual hostesses for reception, meet and greet and sales conversion. We are the only ESSA – Event Supplier and Services Association approved supplier of legally employed hostesses.

231.000 visitors (including 25.000 publishing professionals) stormed the fair

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Entitled Le parole tra noi leggere (Words fall lightly between us), the 37th edition of the
Salone Internazionale del Libro di Torino
 (the second under Annalena Benini’s editorial
direction) celebrates its conclusion with great enthusiasm from the vast and warm crowd attendingthe final press conference.During the five days, 231.000 book-lovers, professionals, students, translators and publishers stormed the book fair, confirming it as Italy’s largest publishing event with
its 977 stalls, 70 events’ venues, over 2500 events on site and an additional 800 all around the city and region in the Salone Off Programme featuring Italian and International guests.

The Salone events programme unfolded in 31 venues and 10 labs, featuring 1513 events. The bookfair offered 172.480 seats, with an average occupancy of 75%. 315 events were completely sold out. 129.360 readers had the opportunity to meet Italian and International authors. Furthermore, 1134 events were dedicated to media and institutions. Hence, visitors had access to a programme of 2647 events, in addition to the 800 of the Salone Off programme.For its 37th edition, Salone launched the Romance Pop Up space, in 11 venues at the UCI
Cinema just above the Lingotto, with a Meet&Greet formula that allowed 3600 readers to meet 52 authors: The 9120 available tickets were sold in little more than 30 minutes.

The authors signed 50.000 books.Among the most successful events were those featuring authors Stefan Boonen, Jan Brokken, Émmanuel Carrere, Mircea Cărtărescu, Javier Cercas, Tracy Chevalier, Caroline Darian, Joël Dicker, Penelope Douglas, Etgar Keret, Felicia Kingsley, Saitō Kōhei, Paul Murray, Valérie Perrin, David Quammen, Rie Qudan, Jean Reno, Yasmina Reza, Lucy Sante, Adania Shibli, Liv Strömquist, Victoire Tuaillon, Scott Turow. Among the Italians: Alessandro Barbero, Daria Bignardi, Gianrico Carofiglio, Concita De Gregorio, Donatella Di Pietrantonio, Luciano Ligabue e Matteo Zuppi, Cecilia Sala, Salmo, Roberto Saviano, Antonio Scurati, Toni Servillo, Ornella Vanoni, Antonello Venditti, Sandro Veronesi.

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