UFI, The Global Association of the Exhibition Industry,(formerly known as the Union des Foires Internationales) is the association of trade show organisers, fairground owners, national and international associations of the exhibition industry, and its partners.
UFI was founded on April 15, 1925, in Milan, Italy, by 20 European international trade fairs from Bordeaux, Brussels, Budapest, Cologne, Danzig, Frankfurt am Main, Leipzig, Ljubljana, Lwów, Lyon, Milan, Nizhny Novgorod, Padua, Paris, Prague, Reichenberg, Utrecht, Valencia, Vienna and Zagreb.
As of 2011, it has more than 550 members from 84 countries who manage over 4500 exhibitions.