A 31-year long story

It was 1992 when, for the first time in Italian history, Assosub appeared at the Verona fair, presenting an event, the Eudi Show, or European Dive Show. It was a small event, covering just over a thousand square meters of exhibition space. The Underwater Show was a great success in that October edition, and from it, unknowingly, the seed would sprout for an event destined to last until today. The success of that edition led to the choice of Verona being renewed in the following years, and the space occupied tripled in the space of three editions.

From 1996 to 2001, the event moved to the BolognaFiere venue and was a great success, reaching 9,000 square meters of exhibition space in 2001. The great growth was also achieved thanks to the entry of large companies in the sector in 2000, the year in which the event, detached from sport fishing (with which it had taken place simultaneously until then), moved the exhibition date from November to March (which is why the 1999 edition was skipped).

It was precisely the need to maintain the new dates (not available in those years at the Bologna venue) combined with the philosophy of creating a sort of traveling fair, which guided the decision of the Assosub board to return to the Verona venue for another two editions. editions.

In 2004, Genoa was declared the European Capital of Culture and, since much of Genoese tradition and culture are based on the sea, Eudi Show, to best honor the city, moved the event to the Fiera del Mare. A great return and a great success.

After a first edition in 1995 in Rome (between the first editions in Verona and Bologna), Eudi Show returned to the capital, this time to the new location of the Fiera di Roma in Fiumicino, in 2004. The Show takes place within the broader context of the Big Blu event, which inaugurates the new location of the fair. The three Roman editions were an extraordinary success, with over 100,000 visitors in total.

In 2010, Eudi Show returned to Bologna by virtue of a new agreement between Confisub and Assosub that reunites the sector. An arrival in Bologna that is somewhat of a return to its roots, with the Sport Fishing Show held concurrently.

After this interlude, the Eudi Show held two editions at the Milan Rho-Pero fairgrounds. These two editions were held concurrently with the BIT (International Tourism Exchange) and allowed for visitor permeability. Since 2014, the event has returned to Bologna, where it is once again for this 29th edition.