"Hanseboot 2008 went significantly better than we could have expected in view of the daily media reports on the financial and economic crisis," said Bernd Aufderheide, CEO of Hamburg Messeund Congress GmbH, in his summary of the 49th Hamburg International Boat Show. The event closed on Sunday after the scheduled nine exhibition days. There were a total of some 100,000 visitors (compared with 105,549 in 2007) at hanseboot 2008; visitor numbers at the hanseboot harbour at Baumwall were also somewhat down from last year (22,000 visitors in 2008 compared with 25,000 in 2007). But, especially on the sunny autumn days, hanseboot harbour attracted large numbers of watersports enthusiasts and more than 50 large sailing and motor yachts in their element.
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