NOTE: These reports are from FITUR 2003. If you are interested in FITUR 2002, please click here
Report from
Mick Ayers
Chairman of CCBN
This year 2003 we made our third visit to FITUR to represent the British Naturist Federation (CCBN). This major European exhibition has great importance for British Naturists for Spain has the greatest number of British tourists both in the naturist as well as the textile world. The level of interest in naturism continues to grow in Spain and as well as developing contacts for British visitors there is also the opportunity to show the major tour operators and the holiday towns and regions that naturism exists and is looking for new areas to develop.
This year most of our stocks of information were used by the third day showing the level of interest in Great Britain which despite its common believe as a cold and wet country can still be an attractive holiday destination. With its 125 naturist clubs it has much to offer the visiting naturist and a warm summer climate provides a pleasant change to the hotter parts of Spain.
The naturist holiday centers in Spain continue to grow and now can offer camping and caravanning holidays during the warmer seasons or villa and apartments or mobile homes for all year round holiday visits. In the capital the new swimming pool use for naturists gives the visitor the opportunity to practice naturism in convivial company while including Madrid on their schedule.
The CCBN offers its members a holiday advice service for those visiting Spain and also a service for prospective naturist visitors to Gt. Britain. For contact information visit WWW.british-naturism.org.uk or write to CCBN 30 - 32 Wycliffe Road, NORTHAMPTON, NN1 5JF. England. Telephone from Spain 0044 1604 62 03 61.
We must thank our friends in Madrid for the invitation to be part of what must now be considered the most important travel and leisure exhibition in Europe and for the considerable work they have undertaken in putting Spanish naturism firmly on the map.
We hope to see you soon in Gt. Britain.
Mick Ayers
Chairman CCBN
yqh88@dial.pipex.com
Report from
Petra Scheller
Going Natural, Publication Designer
Federation of Canadian Naturists
FITUR 2003... lots of travel information amidst a cornucopia of gastronomic delights. This February weekend, the world is at your doorstep... this doorstep to the world. And right in the middle of all the hustle and bustle around worldwide travel information, I find myself helping to promote the benefits of Spanish naturism to the largest travel audience I ever saw. Imagine having a naturist booth right next to the respected Guardia Civil at the largest travel trade show in Europe.
For a country with a fairly young naturist organization, the level of volunteerism and cooperation of the various Spanish naturist groups is remarkable. What is even more remarkable from a North American perspective, is the level of acceptance from the various travel audiences - trade and public alike.
Idle time was in very short supply. Spare moments were used for organizing many other activities. Saturday morning Carlos Gil arranged for Mick Ayers, of British Naturist fame, and myself to be interviewed on "Radio Nacional de España", Spain's national radio program TREBEDE, to talk about our most favourite subject in relation to the travel trade show taking place this same weekend.
Around the same time, a group of volunteers met at the pool complex of "Casa de Campo", right smack in the centre of Madrid, to run the monthly naturist swim. The inaugural swim - another important naturist milestone - took place October 5 2002, after a year-long contract was signed with city officials. Now in its fifth month, the swim has always been well attended and certainly well respected.
In the afternoon I was invited to observe the Executive of the F.E.N and A.D.N. as they discussed plans for the next Inter-federal Western European Meeting to be held in June 2003 at "El Templo de Sol" in the south of Catalonia. No stranger to such meetings, Mick was an invaluable source of organizational knowledge. What Tony Blair is to George Bush, Mick is to Spanish Naturism... a staunch supporter through thick and thin.
At FITUR in February 2003 and well into the future everywhere else in the world... Spanish Naturism is leaving its barefoot tracks in the sand and making its mark.
Petra Scheller
Going Natural, Publication Designer
Federation of Canadian Naturists
www.fcn.ca
Report from ADN
Ismael Rodrigo

ADN was present with a stand of 16 m2 in FITUR under the title: "NATURIST TOURISM" The objectives of our presence, in this important tourism fair, were the following:

  • Improving relationships with the INF (FEN/INF)
  • Improving relationships with the naturist resorts
  • Promoting our lifestyle:
    • Thousands of visitors stopped at our stand;
    • Mass Media presence:
  • Contacting managers of the tourist sector

Co-exhibitors Resorts: