Food & Hospitality Asia 2026: Dates, Registration & Visitor Guide
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Food & Hospitality Asia 2026 is the most significant edition of this trade event in a decade. For the first time in its nearly 50-year history, FHA-Food & Beverage and FHA-HoReCa unite under one roof, one badge, and one registration at Singapore EXPO from 21 to 24 April 2026. This guide covers everything you need to plan your visit: verified dates, free registration steps, transport options, what's new in 2026, the full competition lineup, and practical tips to make the most of all four days.
2026 Quick Facts
📅 Dates: 21 to 24 April 2026
⏰ Hours: 21 to 23 April: 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM | 24 April: 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
📍 Venue: Singapore EXPO, Halls 1 to 10, 1 Expo Drive, Singapore 486150
🎫 Entry: FREE with pre-registration online before 20 April 2026 at 6PM SGT | SGD 100 on-site
🚇 MRT: Expo Station (CG1/DT35), East-West (Green) Line or Downtown (Blue) Line
🚕 Taxi/Grab: Drop-off at Foyer 2 or Foyer 1 (next to MAX Atria)
🅿️ Parking: Limited paid parking at Carpark A to H, off Expo Drive / Upper Changi Road East
🌍 Scale: 80,000+ attendees | 2,750+ exhibitors | 115 countries and regions | 18 segments | 10 halls
📌 Edition: 48th
👤 Organiser: Informa Markets
🔗 Official site: foodnhotelasia.com
🔞 Admission: Trade professionals only, no general public, no under-18s, no direct retail sales
The Year Everything Changed
For nearly five decades, Asia's food industry operated on a split schedule. FHA-Food & Beverage and FHA-HoReCa ran as separate events, serving overlapping but distinct audiences, and visitors often had to choose which world they belonged to: the supply chain or the kitchen.
For the first time in its 48-year history, both shows merge under a single roof, a single badge, and a single registration. All ten halls of Singapore EXPO will run simultaneously, covering over 100,000 sqm of floor space. It is, by any measure, the biggest FHA in a decade, and one of the most structurally significant trade events the Asia Pacific region has seen in years.
If you've attended before, expect a different experience. If you're attending for the first time, you're arriving at the right moment.
What FHA Actually Is (And What It Isn't)
Let's be direct: FHA is not a food festival. There's no public entry, no street food stalls, no pop-up dining experiences designed for social media. It is a trade-only event for F&B professionals, hoteliers, restaurateurs, distributors, importers, and decision-makers. Individuals under 18 and the general public cannot attend. There will be no direct sales on the floor.
What it is, however, is the most concentrated gathering of the Asia Pacific food and hospitality supply chain in any given year. More than 2,750 exhibitors from 115 countries and regions show up to move product, forge partnerships, and open distribution channels. Buyers from hotel chains, supermarket groups, restaurant operators, and government procurement agencies walk the aisles with real mandates and real budgets.
In 2025, the FHA Hosted Buyer Programme alone brought 347 pre-qualified buyers from over 20 countries and regions, accounting for 6,500 meetings. These aren't people browsing. They're comparing suppliers, reviewing assortments, and outlining purchasing or private label plans.
Singapore's role in all of this is deliberate. As Southeast Asia's premier logistics and re-export hub, the city-state amplifies whatever happens inside that exhibition hall into contracts that reach Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines, and beyond.
The 2026 Edition: What's New
The Merger
The combination of FHA-Food & Beverage and FHA-HoReCa into one event isn't just administrative tidying. It changes who you'll meet and what conversations are possible. A sauce manufacturer can now cross paths with the executive chef who might specify their product. A kitchen equipment supplier can meet the hotel procurement manager and the food technologist in the same afternoon. 18 specialised segments spread across all ten halls create an enormous but navigable landscape: everything from fresh produce and seafood to wine and spirits, halal food, speciality coffee and tea, convenience food, foodservice equipment, and hospitality technology.
Region of Honour: European Union
The EU has been designated as the 2026 Region of Honour. This pairing is meaningful given Asia's growing appetite for European quality certifications, traceability standards, and sustainability credentials. Expect curated showcases, live chef demonstrations, and networking sessions that connect EU producers directly with Asian buyers. For importers sourcing from Europe, this is an unusually concentrated access point.
FutureFWD
FutureFWD is a 4-day conference and showcase running inside FHA 2026, dedicated to the technology transformation of food service and hospitality, covering AI-backed service, kitchen automation, contactless payments, service robotics, smart room innovation, and more. Access is included with your FHA registration at no extra cost. If your business sits at the intersection of food and technology, this is four full days of curated content from practitioners and operators.
Singapore Seafood Pavilion
Organised by the Seafood Industries Association Singapore, this dedicated pavilion spotlights fresh, live, frozen, and processed seafood alongside aquaculture solutions and value-added seafood products from global suppliers. With seafood sourcing increasingly sensitive to sustainability and traceability concerns, this focused space gives buyers a clean way to evaluate the market in one pass.
IndusFood at FHA
IndusFood at FHA concentrates India's export-oriented food sector into a dedicated zone, covering packaged foods, spices, snacks, and beverage categories for buyers interested in the subcontinent's rapidly expanding F&B industry.
ProWine Singapore
ProWine Singapore runs concurrently in an adjoining hall, the dedicated wine and spirits trade show for Asia. One trip, two major events. For buyers in the beverage space, this overlap is worth planning around.
The Competition Programme
FHA 2026 hosts four confirmed competitions running live across all four days.
The Young Chefs Grand Prix makes its debut at this edition. Open to culinary talent aged 16 to 25, the format combines an ingredient-sourcing relay (teams gather supplies directly from the exhibition halls) with a live cook-off. Co-organised by FHA with the Singapore Chefs Association and the Singapore Junior Chefs Club, and endorsed by WorldChefs, this is a genuinely competitive event worth watching for industry scouts.
The Asian Pastry Cup returns as the official Asia selection event for the World Pastry Cup. Top pastry chefs from across the region compete here before the global stage in Lyon.
The FHA Bakery Challenge is organised in partnership with the Singapore Pastry Alliance and focuses on artisanal baking excellence.
The FHA Dessert Challenge is co-organised with the Singapore Pastry Alliance as a platform for aspiring pastry chefs to showcase their artistry and dessert-making skills.
Knowledge Tracks
Beyond the floor, FHA 2026 runs a series of seminars and summits that are easy to underestimate until you've sat in one. The FHA Seminar on Global Market Trends and Trade covers regulatory shifts, sourcing strategy, and emerging consumer patterns across Asia's diverse markets. The Sustainable Summit tackles food security, sustainable agriculture, and supply chain resilience, topics that are shaping purchasing decisions from Singapore to Shanghai.
For exhibitors and visitors from regulated categories (labelling, halal certification, food safety standards), the seminar programme includes targeted sessions on compliance frameworks across ASEAN markets.
How to Register
Pre-registration is free and open until 20 April 2026 at 6PM Singapore time. The process: create an account, complete a professional profile questionnaire, submit. Approvals typically take 3 to 5 working days, so don't leave this until the week before. Once approved, download and print your badge at home. This skips the on-site queue entirely, which is worth doing at an 80,000-person event.
If you miss the online window, on-site registration costs SGD 100 per person.
Group registration is available. After completing your own application, you can register colleagues through the same platform.
Students can attend through a facilitated process. A lecturer or facilitator must submit the request via the enquiry form, selecting "Student Visit" under the nature of enquiry.
For visa support: FHA will issue Letters of Invitation upon request through the visitor FAQ page. Check Singapore's entry requirements well ahead of travel, as nationals from a number of countries require advance visa applications.
Getting There
By MRT: The most reliable option. Singapore EXPO sits directly at Expo MRT Station (CG1/DT35), served by both the East-West (Green) Line and Downtown (Blue) Line. The station connects to Foyer 2, the closest entry point. From the city centre, the journey takes approximately 25 to 35 minutes depending on origin.
By Taxi or Grab: Drop-off points are at Foyer 2 or Foyer 1 (next to MAX Atria). During peak arrival times (9:30 to 10:30 AM), queues outside can be slow. Factor in extra time on the first day.
By Car: Limited paid parking is available at Carpark A through H, accessed off Expo Drive from Upper Changi Road East. Parking fills quickly during the morning rush. Driving is not the recommended option for anyone arriving near opening time.
From Changi Airport: Singapore EXPO is adjacent to Changi, making it one of the easiest major exhibition venues in the world to reach from an international airport. The MRT connection takes under 10 minutes from Terminal 2 and 3 stations.
Hotel Strategy
For a four-day trade event of this size, proximity matters. The practical options, in order:
Hotels in the Changi/Expo area (Crowne Plaza Changi Airport, Village Hotel Changi) are the most convenient. Walking distance or a short shuttle to Singapore EXPO, and well-positioned for easy airport transfers.
Hotels in central Singapore (Orchard, Marina Bay, Clarke Quay) look convenient on a map but involve 40 to 60 minutes of MRT travel each way during exhibition hours. Over four days, that's real time lost. Book centrally only if you have business meetings outside the venue.
April is Singapore's peak conference month in 2026, with multiple major trade events running simultaneously across the city. Book accommodation well in advance. The calendar density means hotel prices around Singapore EXPO will be higher than usual.
Practical Notes for First-Timers
Floor plan first. With 18 segments across 10 halls, walking without a plan wastes the most valuable hours. The official event app will include interactive floor maps. Download it before you arrive and map your priority halls by day.
Peak hours run 11 AM to 3 PM. Exhibitor booths are most staffed and most crowded in this window. If your goal is meetings with specific companies, schedule those for morning (10 to 11 AM) or late afternoon (4 to 5 PM) when traffic thins.
Bring business cards in volume. This remains, regardless of app-based lead capture, the most reliable way to leave a conversation with a contact. Bring more than you think you need.
Wear comfortable shoes. 100,000 sqm of floor space is not a metaphor. This is a full day of walking, every day.
Food on-site: Singapore EXPO has dining options within the venue and immediate surroundings. For better options, the Changi City Point mall is a short walk from the EXPO and offers a wider range. Lunches between 12 PM and 2 PM will be crowded regardless of where you go.
The Longer Context
FHA has built a 47-year track record as a platform that watched the region's food economy transform from local agriculture and basic manufacturing into one of the world's most sophisticated food export and innovation ecosystems.
The merger happening in 2026 isn't a response to decline. The 2024 FHA-HoReCa edition attracted over 800 exhibitors and 32,000 attendees from over 30 countries across a 50,000 sqm space. The consolidation is a strategic choice: concentrate the ecosystem, reduce the fragmentation, and give the combined audience something neither show alone could offer.
Whether you're a European producer looking for a Southeast Asian distributor, a Singapore-based restaurateur scouting new ingredients, a hotel procurement manager evaluating suppliers, or a technology company targeting the food service sector, the unified FHA 2026 puts more of your market in one place than any previous edition.
All facts verified through official FHA sources. For the most current information, visit foodnhotelasia.com or the visitor registration page.
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