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Rome has its share in international fairs. It has a big fair center which hosts important events and trade shows that take place all year round. Today I’ll give you a short hint about the New Rome fair which is Situated near Fiumicino village, a place just outside the city and very near to the Leonardo da Vinci Airport (Rome’s most important international airport). The New Rome Fair is so called because it has been there only for a couple of years. It has been renewed and inaugurated on April 21st, 2006. Although it is not yet completed, the New Rome Fair was designed to function in a futuristic and oversized environment. When you visit it nowadays, you can see hundreds of pavilions, elevators and escalators which are all made of steel, crystal and modern recyclable building materials. Also, the fair has conference centers with big halls and more than a dozen of restaurants extending throughout a total surface of 920,000 square meters. The New Rome fair hosts many events and exhibitions, acting as a link between services and customers. The events and exhibitions are not confined to one field of business, they vary between IT, high-tech, tourism, home-living, food, automotive, etc. The most important events yearly showing into the New Rome Fair are: Casa Idea, Moa Casa, Globe2010, Big Blu, Eudi Show, The famous exhibitions of interior decoration and furnishings. Arti & Mestieri Expo This is dedicated to all handicraft lovers who take it as a job or a hobby.

While I was surfing the net, I found a strange story that happened to a man visiting New York for the first time. It all started when he arrived at the JFK New York Airport (one of the 3 found in NY) yet I don’t think it’s a Kennedy curse! It can just happen to anyone visiting a new place..

Anyway..

He said he arrived at JFK (That’s short for Kennedy Airport) at around 1:30 p.m., and after the usual long airports procedures he and his friends were out at last.  Reaching for the transportation desk (where they could find some guiding about places and stuff) a man stopped them and asked if they need a taxi (New York yellow cabs) , and they said no because they were expecting a ride from the previously-booked famous tourism company. After a while, another man came and asked them the same question, they then told him what they were expecting and mentioned the company name.

For their surprise, the man took out a card with the company name and some details underneath, and asked them to follow him to the park. The tourist felt a little uneasy about it, specially that a professional company driver won’t start asking about their taxi  in New York needs rather than their target company!

More strangely, when they reached the park they found a car awaiting them not a bus! This was the time that the tourist insisted to see an ID card of the claimed driver, the thing which the claimed driver refused to do for reasons they couldn’t buy. So they apologized to him and went back to the desk where they found a large sign explaining how legal it is to offer a taxi ride in this area (where the desk is)!

I can’t really expect what could have happened if they went on with that guy, but it’s good to warn everybody visiting New York  about this I guess. You can always find a trustable guide at the transportation desk, unless you’ll have someone to pick you up!