Since its inception in 1986, HOSTEX has established itself as a leading trade exhibition for the food, drink, hospitality, and foodservice industries across Africa. The event brings together industry professionals, business leaders, innovators, suppliers, buyers, and decision-makers to discover new products, exchange ideas, build partnerships, and do business.

With a strong heritage and an established position within Africa's exhibition landscape, HOSTEX provides a professional meeting place for the hospitality and foodservice community. The show offers exhibitors an opportunity to showcase their latest products, technologies, equipment, services, and solutions to a highly relevant audience of industry professionals.

Connecting Africa's Hospitality & Foodservice Industries

HOSTEX serves as a key platform for the hospitality, food, and beverage sectors to connect, innovate, source, and grow. The exhibition brings together businesses from across the value chain, creating opportunities for meaningful B2B engagement and commercial relationships.

Visitors can discover a wide range of brands, innovations, technologies, equipment, and services designed to meet the changing needs of the hospitality and foodservice industries.

The event attracts professionals from areas including:

• Hotels and resorts

• Restaurants and cafés

• Catering and foodservice

• Hospitality groups

• Food and beverage businesses

• Professional kitchens

• Hospitality procurement

• Retail and distribution

• Equipment and technology

• Interior design and hospitality design

• Tourism and related services

Backed by Montgomery Group

HOSTEX is part of Montgomery Group Africa, backed by the heritage and international experience of Montgomery Group, which has more than 130 years of experience in the exhibitions and events industry.

Montgomery Group Africa has built a strong track record of delivering influential events across the continent since 1968, with a portfolio extending across Southern, Eastern, and Western Africa.

Its events create platforms where industries connect, businesses develop new opportunities, ideas are exchanged, and professional communities grow. This experience provides HOSTEX with a strong foundation from which to serve Africa's evolving hospitality and foodservice sectors.

Discover What Is Next

HOSTEX goes beyond being a traditional trade exhibition. It provides an environment where professionals can discover new brands, emerging technologies, innovative products, creative solutions, and the trends shaping the future of hospitality, food, and drink.

For exhibitors, the show offers opportunities to strengthen brand visibility, meet prospective customers and partners, generate business leads, launch products, and understand changing market requirements.

For visitors, HOSTEX provides access to a concentrated marketplace of suppliers and industry expertise, making it easier to compare solutions, discover innovations, network with peers, and identify new opportunities for their businesses.

HOSTEX 2028

HOSTEX 2028 promises to take the industry beyond the transactional, creating a future-focused experience centred on innovation, design, knowledge, and insight.

The event will provide a platform for hospitality and foodservice professionals to explore emerging trends, discover new approaches to business, and understand the technologies and ideas that will influence the sector in the years ahead.

From innovative food and beverage concepts to hospitality technology, professional equipment, design solutions, and evolving consumer expectations, HOSTEX 2028 will bring together the ideas and businesses shaping what comes next.

The Future of Hospitality Starts Here

As Africa's hospitality, food, and beverage industries continue to evolve, HOSTEX remains a key meeting point for the professionals and businesses driving that transformation.

HOSTEX — Connecting the hospitality, food and beverage industry to discover, innovate, do business, and shape what comes next.