The exhibition industry and the regional economy is the title of the article published in Rzeczpospolita daily on September 30, 2016, as a result of cooperation between PCEI and the newspaper on the Regions for business campaign. The aim of the campaign is to analyse the level and dynamics of development of the business environment in the recent years in the context of regions and to characterise dependencies between the level of development of the business environment and the social and economic development of regions.