PADI® is extending the invitation to the 6,600 PADI Dive Centres and Resorts to exhibit alongside them during the 2025 European Dive Show season. 99 spots are available and will stand alongside the world’s largest scuba diving organisation.

“PADI has invested in having a significant presence at the 2025 European Dive Show circuit, providing strong business opportunities for members to reach the European diving market,” says Dave Murray, Managing Director for PADI EMEA.

“In 2023, 41% of global PADI certifications came from students with a home location in Europe, Middle East, and Africa, with the majority of European divers known to travel the world – ranging from Thailand Indonesia, and Australia to Colombia and the Caribbean.”

PADI Members who exhibit will not only receive premium positioning within the show but get additional support from PADI as they will manage the organisation and logistics of each of the exhibitions and market participants through pre-show communications.

2025 PADI European Dive Show Schedule

PADI Members who attend the entire European Dive Show circuit have the opportunity to get in front of an estimated 329,000 people over 22 show days.

The line-up includes the largest indoor boat and water sports show in Europe with a dedicated scuba diving hall, the largest dive show in the UK and one of the longest-standing dive shows in Paris.

• 9-12 January:  Salon de la Plongée | Paris, France
• 18 – 26 January: boot Düsseldorf | Düsseldorf, Germany
• 1 – 2 February: Diver Expo Houten | Houten, Netherlands
• 21 – 23 February: EUDI Show | Bologna, Italy
• 1 – 2 March: Go Diving Show | Stoneleigh, UK
• 28 – 30 March: Mediterranean Diving Show | Barcelona, Spain

“Dive shows provide a unique opportunity to get your dive business in front of thousands of the most highly engaged recreational and professional divers that are actively looking for their next diving adventure, course, trip, or job opportunity” explains Murray.

“The dive industry thrives because of its global community, united by a shared love of the ocean. We think there’s nothing more powerful than presenting PADI Members side by side in our ‘PADI Village’ to showcase the best that the industry has to offer.”

Registrations are open to 100% PADI Members through 31 August 2024, with the limited spaces allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. To sign up and learn more visit pros-blog.padi.com/exhibit-with-padi-emea.

About PADI 

PADI^® (Professional Association of Diving Instructors^®) is the largest purpose-driven diving organisation with a global network of 6,600 dive centres and resorts, 128,000 professional members and more than 29 million certified divers to date. Committed to our blue planet, PADI makes the wonder of the underwater world accessible to all, empowering people around the world to experience, explore and take meaningful action, as Ocean Torchbearers^TM, to protect the world beneath the surface. For over 50 years, PADI is undeniably The Way the World Learns to Dive^®, setting the standard for the highest quality dive training, underwater safety and conservation initiatives while evolving the sport of diving into a passionate lifestyle. For divers by divers, PADI is obsessed with transforming lives and, with its global foundation, PADI AWARE^TM, creating positive ocean change. Seek Adventure. Save the Ocean.^SM  www.padi.com

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