About ForumPiscine
ForumPiscine is the Italian know-how in the world of pools and Spas to set up one of the main events at the global level - and a one-of-a-kind event in Italy - for the water industry. ForumPiscine, the international exhibition organized by Editrice Il Campo, leading Italian Publisher specialized in fitness, wellness and pools, welcomes thousands of trade operators and a growing number of players from abroad.
In Halls 21 and 22 of BolognaFiere, the leading international exhibition for the swimming pool and spa industry comes to life, serving as a key meeting point for manufacturers, distributors, buyers, facility operators, and industry professionals. Here, innovation, business, and know-how come together in a single, high-value trade fair experience. Training, innovation, in-depth analysis, exhibitions, live shows, experiential islands, the prestigious Italian Pool Award: ForumPiscine represents an extraordinary opportunity to get to know what's new in the pool and spa industry, meet professionals and buyers and examine the latest market trends (products, technologies, services).
Alongside the exhibition area, the show becomes a space for content, exchange, and experimentation through:
- Technical Live Shows, where solutions come to life with on-site operational demonstrations directly at the exhibition;
- Experiential areas, dedicated to new design approaches for public and private aquatic spaces;
- ForumPiscine Congress, the core platform for discussion on regulations, investment, sustainability, safety, and facility efficiency.
Since 2025, the Show has become part of XLeisure – the expo for leisure professionals – a format that, in parallel, integrates ForumClub, creating a unique platform dedicated to the entire sport, wellness, and leisure universe. An expanding international ecosystem that connects companies and operators from across Europe and around the world, opening new pathways for business development and innovation across the industry.
FORUMPISCINE IS...
Industry leader
For 17 years, it has been the benchmark for the sector: Italy’s only international swimming pool trade fair and the 4th largest market in Europe. It is the event that officially opens the professional year for industry operators, defining trends, scenarios, and future perspectives for the sector.
Synergies that generate business
With XLeisure, the dialogue extends beyond the swimming pool industry, integrating fitness and outdoor sports solutions. An ecosystem that broadens vision and commercial opportunities.
Live experiences on stage
Live Shows curated by exhibiting companies and experiential areas transform the fair into a highly engaging environment, where the market becomes a tangible experience and solutions come to life for a highly qualified international professional community.
High-value content and training
Authoritative discussions on sustainability, energy efficiency, technology, safety, and design are at the core of the 18th ForumPiscine Congress, a key reference point for professional development. Free entry.
VISITORS OF FORUMPISCINE EXPO&CONGRESS
- • Pool operators | builders | installers
- • Pools | sports centres
- • Wellness | Fitness Clubs
- • Buyer (spas, wellness centres, hotels, agritourisms, water parks, campsites, thermal facilities, physiotherapy centres)
- • Designers | construction companies | real estate developers
- • Others (consultants, services, garden centres)
- • Private visitors
Taking the field for swimming pools and their sustainability
The essence of ForumPiscine is realised every year in February in the crowded corridors of its International Expo in the heart of BolognaFiere. In the remaining months of the year, ForumPiscine works unceasingly to maintain its commitment to the sector, protracted over time in a series of initiatives and concrete actions with clear objectives and with the support of collaborations, even institutional ones, that in some cases have given positive results, anything but taken for granted, for the operators of the sector.
An example that speaks for everyone is the Smart Pool, one of the special projects presented during the 2020 edition of ForumPiscine. The Smart Pool took concrete form on a 1:1 scale and was based on a unique didactic-promotional connotation: the objective, in fact, was to raise awareness in the sector and, at the same time, define the standards dedicated to the concepts of self-sufficiency and sustainability for a major communicative and promotional action for the pool system, on a national level.
In the following months of the pandemic, then, ForumPiscine supported the sector through a series of web conferences aimed at clarifying the difficult and complicated period, answering questions and clarifying doubts regarding the regulatory aspects of the emergency, and not only.
The commitment of ForumPiscine has continued in the months and years to follow, offering the sector important moments of training and comparison, such as the Web Conferences of 2021, in collaboration with FIN - Italian Swimming Federation, a programme of free online meetings dedicated to managers of public pools.
And again, in 2022, an unprecedented installation, the culture of water in its fullest sense: the Laboratory Pool, an equipped space, inside the Expo, conceived by the magazine Piscine Oggi together with the Laboratory of Epidemiology and Biotechnology of the University of Rome 'Foro Italico', to carry out educational, demonstrative and cultural activities on the water resource in the pool.
ForumPiscine also coordinated a panel of experts in the creation of a document dedicated to guidelines useful for the sector, starting with the May 2021 publication entitled "Guidelines for the economic-financial rebalancing of concessions for public swimming pools and sports facilities," to arrive almost two years later, to another important operational tool, useful to correctly and effectively address the soaring energy costs to ensure sustainable operating conditions, entitled "Caro energia - il riequilibrio economico-finanziario nelle concessioni per la gestione di impianti sportivi pubblici".
Not to be forgotten is that, in 2020, ForumPiscine joined the Italia in Classe A circuit promoted by the National Agency for Energy Efficiency ENEA and Mise, the Ministry for Economic Development.
The International Conference on Swimming Pools & Spas
In 2023, ForumPiscine hosted the tenth edition of the International Conference on Swimming Pool & Spa, the prestigious international conference on swimming pools and spas that takes place annually, involving researchers and academics from all over the world.
The scientific organisation of the 2023 ICSPS, an international benchmark event for issues related to health protection, safety and water quality for recreational use, particularly swimming pools, was handled by the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS) and the University of Rome 'Foro Italico'. Editrice il Campo, creator and organiser of ForumPiscine, was the organisational and logistical partner.
