The Geneva International Motor Show closed its doors on Sunday, 14 March after eleven highly successful days. The automobile industry presented a Geneva International Motor Show more glittering and innovative than ever. After a very difficult 2009, the manufacturers have demonstrated a tremendous capacity to adapt with their presentation of more than one hundred world and European premieres, providing great pleasure to the large number of media representatives and the visiting public who, once again, were very appreciative of the welcoming and quality atmosphere of the event. This 80th edition finished with very positive results, and the dates for next year have already been fixed for 3 to 13 March 2011.
 
More than 11,000 representatives from the written, audio-visual and electronic media from all over the globe were welcomed to PALEXPO for the two press days on 2 and 3 March 2010. Extensive media coverage throughout the world emanated from 75 press conferences organised by the car manufacturers, the many celebrities present, and special events organised within the framework of the Motor Show.
The provisional results from a survey of the visiting public showed that the Geneva International Motor Show rates as the most international in the world with around 40 percent arriving from outside Switzerland. Some 692,000 visitors thronged through the seven exhibition halls of Palexpo during the eleven days it was open to the public. They particularly appreciated the different visions of the future of transportation that were on show.
 
“The attendance result is almost seven percent higher than last year and achieved the goals we had set," affirmed Mr Luc Argand, President of the Motor Show. “However, our goal was not to beat our previous attendance records, but to provide visitors with the best conditions and greatest comfort possible, which we succeeded in doing again this year, according to our visitors.”