1905-1907
The primary Geneva Worldwide Motor Present in Switzerland was held from 29 April to 7 Could 1905 within the Bâtiment électoral in Geneva. The chair of the organising committee was Charles Louis Empeyta, who was additionally the president of the Swiss Vehicle Membership (ACS).
The occasion was a right away success: the Present and its 37 stands welcomed over 17,000 guests and the Confederation despatched Federal Councillor Ludwig Forrer to the inauguration. Buoyed by its success, Geneva went on to repeat the operation from 28 April to six Could 1906. The third occasion, nonetheless, passed off in Zurich, in 1907.
1923-1925
The difficult instances meant that the next years have been marked by a collection of unsuccessful makes an attempt to placed on one other automotive present in Switzerland. It was not till 1923 that the fourth Swiss Motor Present was in a position to open within the Bâtiment électoral in Geneva, underneath the chairmanship of Robert Marchand, who performed a big function in enhancing and increasing the Present, in addition to advancing the Swiss automotive business.
The success of the fourth Present led to the creation of the Standing Committee of the Worldwide Motor Present in Geneva on 23 November 1923.
The committee set to work instantly, organising the primary Worldwide Motor, Bike and Cycle Present in Geneva, from 14 to 23 March 1924.
The excessive variety of registrations required an 8,000 m2 constructing to be constructed on the Plaine de Plainpalais.
The President of the Swiss Confederation, Ernest Chuard, opened this primary worldwide Present with due ceremony. It introduced collectively 200 exhibitors and welcomed 68,000 guests. The enhance it gave to gross sales was such that the variety of motor autos in Switzerland elevated from 33,000 to 39,000 in a yr. No sooner had the Present closed, than the committee started searching for an appropriate venue for its occasion. The second Worldwide Present was held in 1925, once more within the Bâtiment électoral, and in a brief corridor of 12,500 m2, constructed on the Plaine de Plainpalais.
Work started on constructing an Exhibition Centre within the autumn, because of the efforts of Robert Marchand and monetary assist from each the cantonal and municipal authorities in Geneva, and people with industrial and industrial pursuits within the canton. The Present was held there from 1926 onwards, in June relatively than the spring. That yr it welcomed 224 exhibitors, together with 83 makes of automobile from eight totally different international locations, and 25 makes of motorbike.
1926-1939
From 1926 to 1939, the variety of exhibitors step by step grew past 200, forcing the organisers so as to add a brief corridor to the Palais des Expositions, which was now too small. By 1934, the Geneva Motor Present had earned a worldwide repute.
1947-1980
Following the interruption brought on by the conflict, the Geneva Motor Present was the primary occasion within the automotive sector to reopen its doorways, which occurred in 1947. It proved a substantial success, with 305 exhibitors occupying 9,608 m2. Since then, the Geneva Worldwide Motor Present has grown steadily. In 1948, it crossed the brink of 200,000 guests, adopted by 300,000 in 1960 and 500,000 in 1967.
Given the numerous improvement of the transport sector, an exhibition of utility autos accompanied the Motor Present beginning in 1970, however solely in even years. This passed off just a few weeks earlier than the primary occasion and helped resolve the issues of house confronted by the Motor Present, a minimum of briefly. In 1972, nonetheless, the opportunity of constructing a brand new Exhibition Centre exterior town centre started to be examined.
1981-1989
Geneva’s new Exhibition and Congress Centre (Palexpo), positioned near the airport and the present practice station, opened its doorways on 18 December 1981.
In January 1982, Palexpo hosted its first occasion, the Worldwide Utility Car Present, adopted in March by the Geneva Worldwide Motor Present. The attraction of the brand new centre, one of the crucial fashionable in Europe, produced a brand new document viewers in 1982, with 745,919 admissions throughout the 2 occasions.
In 1985, the organising committee of the Geneva Worldwide Motor Present was compelled to discover a resolution to accommodate the event of the Heavy Items Car Present, for which it lacked house. In 1987, this led to Transpublic, the Worldwide Public Transport and Municipal Providers Present. This specialist exhibition was designed to showcase all passenger transport and municipal autos, whereas additionally that includes rail and cable transport, in addition to airport infrastructure. Two Transpublic occasions have been held in Geneva, in 1987 and 1989.
1990-2011
Through the years, Palexpo has grown. In 1988, the occasion was attracting 600,000 guests a yr and by 2000 customer charges had expanded to 700,000. A peak of 747,700 admissions was reached on the seventy fifth occasion in 2005, marking the one centesimal anniversary of GIMS. In late 2008, the worldwide monetary disaster affected a number of sectors, together with the automotive business. Regardless of the difficult instances, all producers continued to exhibit at Geneva’s main automotive occasion. Nonetheless, attendance on the present fell beneath the 700,000 guests mark in 2009 and 2010, earlier than bouncing again to 735,000 in 2011, which represented the second-best results of all time.
