We study multivariate L ∞ -approximation for a weighted Korobov space of periodic functions for which the Fourier coefficients decay exponentially fast. The weights are defined, in particular, in terms of two sequences a = {a j } and b = {b j } of positive real numbers bounded away from zero. We study the minimal worstcase error e L∞−app,Λ (n, s) of all algorithms that use n information evaluations from a class Λ in the s-variate case. We consider two classes Λ in this paper: the class Λ all of all linear functionals and the class Λ std of only function evaluations.We study exponential convergence of the minimal worst-case error, which means that e L∞−app,Λ (n, s) converges to zero exponentially fast with increasing n. Furthermore, we consider how the error depends on the dimension s. To this end, we define the notions of κ-EC-weak, EC-polynomial and EC-strong polynomial tractability, where EC stands for "exponential convergence". In particular, EC-polynomial tractability means that we need a polynomial number of information evaluations in s and 1+log ε −1 to compute an ε-approximation. We derive necessary and sufficient conditions on the sequences a and b for obtaining exponential error convergence, and also for obtaining the various notions of tractability. The results are the same for both classes Λ.L 2 -approximation for functions from the same function space has been considered in [2]. It is surprising that most results for L ∞ -approximation coincide with their counterparts for L 2 -approximation. This allows us to deduce also results for L p -approximation for p ∈ [2, ∞].