Gran Canaria Tourism and the Department of Tourism of San Bartolomé de Tirajana start the preparation agenda for the promotion of foods from the south of the island in Madrid in January 2024. It will be in Madrid Fusión, consolidated as the great world stage of the gastronomy, will return on January 29, 30 and 31, 2024 to celebrate its 22nd edition. It will coincide with Fitur 2024. The congress will be broadcast live through Maspalomas24H in order to reach all corners of the world with the cuisine of the south of the island. The program, which will be announced in the coming weeks, will show the most interesting proposals and trends that are currently being developed in kitchens in the economic capital of the Canary Islands. In this event, the municipal tourism authorities will not only present the cuisine of the area but also future professionals in training from San Bartolomé de Tirajana.
The great annual event for its contribution to the creation of a global haute cuisine scene, the discovery of new chefs and the detection and promotion of trends and avant-garde, Madrid Fusión will once again bring together the sector in Pavilion 14 of IFEMA, the most modern of the Madrid venue, where the exhibition space will exceed 30.000 square meters in this edition. This 2024 the motto will be 'Where it All Begins' / 'Where it All Begins'.
For Monday night, January 29, the organization is preparing a large exclusive party in which the large kitchen family will come together. A meeting that will combine gastronomy and music at the end of the first of the days. The Madrid Fusion Festival will be one of the great moments of a gastronomic summit that in its next edition will further reinforce the experiential contents and offer new training spaces with the aim of continuing to show the culinary avant-garde, promote the bringing together of the world's cuisines, encourage debate and reflection about gastronomy and the multiple areas linked to it (enology, food industry, technological innovation, scientific research and new business models) with live cooking demonstrations by the most relevant chefs on the international scene and presentations surprising of the most revolutionary techniques. Every year, during the Madrid Fusion Foods of Spain celebration, Madrid becomes the world capital of gastronomy.
The evolution of the largest gastronomy congress held has gone 'in crescendo' each year. The data from the last edition, held from January 23 to 25 of this year, broke all records for participation, registered congressmen and accredited press. Three days in which it was demonstrated once again that in Madrid Fusión there is talk, debate and paths are shown. The public once again filled rooms and auditoriums, dining rooms and lounges to listen, learn and coexist in a congress that closed with unprecedented figures: 21.106 visitors (25% more than in 2022), more congressmen (1.771 and 708 young people from hospitality schools ) and more journalists (1.216). Contests, auctions, tastings and prizes. Without a doubt, the most successful edition of the great gastronomic summit of haute cuisine.
