Travel today means a lot more than just getting from one place to the next. The journey is also something to be enjoyed. It therefore comes as no surprise that the Travel Catering & Comfort Services (TCCS) area at InnoTrans continues to expand, attracting new exhibitors and trade visitors. Part of the Interiors segment, it provides local and international companies with ideal surroundings in which to present catering equipment and services as well as comfort items to a global public. From 20 to 23 September the dedicated TCCS themed route will bring interested trade visitors directly to the relevant exhibition stands.
Increasingly, InnoTrans is providing companies in this industry with an internationally effective point of contact with potential customers such as transport enterprises and rail operators. For this reason key players as well as small and medium-sized companies are again staging wide-raging displays of their ranges of catering products and services in 2016.
“For us InnoTrans is the most important event for our train business, and our presence gets larger every time“, stated Laura Lane from the LSG Group, a leading international full-service partner from Germany. Other global players in the On-Board Catering and Services sector include Newrest Group International SAS from France.
The Travel Catering & Comfort Services area provides trade visitors with details about on-board kitchen equipment, disposable and re-usable tableware and bistro lifts as well as galleys, trolleys and coffee makers. The items on offer also include exclusive foods and beverages for serving on board. Sonatural - GL S.A. from Portugal is a new exhibitor with a range of juices, all made from fresh fruit. Some of them are obtained from the protected region of Alcobaça and have also been granted PDO classification by the European Union in recognition of the high quality of these products.
Comfort services are more important than ever
In addition to a balanced range of high quality food and beverages, the ideal journey should also provide rail customers with outstanding levels of service. This is also apparent at InnoTrans 2016, which is attracting increasing numbers of exhibitors from the comfort sector. Among the newcomers this year is Kaelis On Board Services from Spain. The company focuses on items such as headphones, blankets, cushions, care products and toys. Other new exhibitors in this field are bb-inflight GmbH from Germany, RONA a.s. from Slovakia and SZIC Industrial Company Limited from China.
