International Outdoor Lifestyle Fair

On the morning of February 14, the Forest Products Association of Binh Dinh (FPA Binh Dinh) held a press conference for the Quy Nhon International Outdoor Lifestyle Fair 2025 (Q-FAIR 2025).

Q-FAIR 2025 is organized by Vietnam Forestry Fair Joint Stock Company (VIFOREST FAIR) in collaboration with the Forest Products Association of Binh Dinh (FPA Binh Dinh). Besides, Q-FAIR also receives the support of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Binh Dinh Department of Industry and Trade, and the Binh Dinh Provincial People's Committee, along with five associations: VIFOREST, BIFA, HAWA, DOWA, FPA Binh Dinh, and local branches.

Q-FAIR 2025 is an annual international fair held in early March every year, displaying groups of exported outdoor products of Vietnam's wood industry. This is a national event in export promotion activities of outdoor products. The fair is also a special opportunity for all entrepreneurs, manufacturers, and international buyers to experience the strong development with great potential of Vietnam's wood industry.

Binh Dinh is chosen to organize Q-FAIR 2025 because this locality is not only one of the leading outdoor products production centers of Vietnam's wood industry but also the convergence of about 245 businesses, concentrated mainly in Phu Tai and Long My Industrial Parks (Quy Nhon city).

According to Mr. Le Minh Thien, Chairman of FPA Binh Dinh and Head of the Organizing Committee of Q-FAIR 2025, to help wood businesses expand the market, connect with new partners, and improve competitiveness, Q-FAIR 2025 is maintained in early March every year. This is the most important event in export promotion and investment attraction of Binh Dinh's wood industry.

Mr. Thien said that as a trade bridge, Q-FAIR not only promotes trade promotion activities between domestic and international businesses but also contributes to extending supply chains and increasing export value. Thereby, positively contributing to the economic growth of the province as well as the whole country.

"With a long-term vision and the goal of becoming a center for producing the leading exterior items in the region, Q-FAIR 2025 contributes to building a famous destination in the world for the Binh Dinh wooden furniture brand," Mr. Thien emphasized.

Q-FAIR 2025 will take place from March 6-9 at Nguyen Tat Thanh Square (Quy Nhon city, Binh Dinh). The fair attracts many outdoor furniture manufacturing businesses, focusing on a variety of products with hundreds of designs and many styles; diverse raw materials along with modern machinery and equipment; raw and auxiliary materials of stone, rattan, bamboo, leather, plastic, wood, iron, etc.

The fair also displays more than 30 models of wooden houses with different decorations, aiming at the unique characteristics of outdoor items in Quy Nhon, making a difference compared to other international fairs.

In particular, Q-FAIR 2025 has an estimated planning space of up to 30,000 m² with 1,200 stalls (up 20% compared to last year) of more than 100 businesses from many countries and territories around the world. Businesses will bring to Q-FAIR 2025 interior and exterior products of modern, classy lifestyles, along with new technological achievements and advances; advanced wood processing machinery and equipment; raw wood and wood accessories such as paint and fabric.

Q-FAIR 2025 is an opportunity for the wood industry of Binh Dinh in particular and the whole country in general to promote the export of wooden furniture to more than 150 countries and territories around the world in 2025.

Q-FAIR 2025 also reserves a trade promotion space combining tourism and food, thereby introducing OCOP products, typical products, and unique tourism products of Binh Dinh province. It is expected that this year's fair will welcome more than 15,000 international visitors from 40 countries and territories, creating a solid foundation between domestic businesses and global partners.

Q-FAIR 2025 is also the place where a series of rich and special side events take place during the fair. For example, Conference to evaluate opportunities, challenges and propose solutions to achieve the goal of exporting wood and forest products in 2025 chaired by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Vietnam Timber and Forest Product Association; Congress of the Forest Products Association of Binh Dinh for the term 2025-2027; seminars on international standards of the wood industry; Promoting trade and export and wood processing technology, useful exterior industries; Sightseeing, expanding trade with typical wood processing plants in Binh Dinh province, connecting resort activities at Binh Dinh province's famous scenic landscapes and relics rich in culture, imbued with national identity.

"Q-FAIR 2025, in addition to creating opportunities to create a linkage chain of diverse and rich items for wood businesses to exchange information and develop the network of trade and export in the international markets, also contributes to promoting the image, business brand, and Vietnamese wood products, aiming at the goal of reaching USD 2 billion of Binh Dinh's wood industry and reaching USD 20 billion of wood export turnover of Vietnam's wood industry," shared Mr. Le Minh Thien, Chairman of FPA Binh Dinh and Head of the Organizing Committee of Q-FAIR 2025.