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Dubai to transform events sector with $2.7bn Expo City expansion
Sheikh Mohammed announces $2.7bn expansion for Dubai Exhibition Centre (DEC) at Expo City Dubai
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Dubai World Trade Centre to host over 100 major events and conferences before end of year
Dubai World Trade Centre to host events including GITEX, WETEX and Automechanika
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Dubai hotel announces major events makeover as it eyes $10bn MICE market
InterContinental Dubai Festival City has unveiled new look events, conferences and exhibitions centre
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Dubai business events: Sector thrives with 349 bid wins and 49% growth
Dubai Business Events reports 49 per cent increase in successful bids
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Dubai sees 44% boost in event sector
Dubai’s MICE sector witnesses spike in event wins in 2023
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Dubai events industry: DWTC welcomes 2m visitors, hosts 244 exhibitions
Dubai World Trade Centre sees 29 per cent increase to visitor numbers
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Saudi Arabia start-ups boosted by bumper Biban $1.5bn deals
Saudi Arabia’s start-up and SME forum, Biban, saw $1.5bn of deals on Day 2 in Riyadh
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Saudi’s Biban 2023 sees $3bn of deals on first day
Saudi Arabia’s start-up and SME forum, Biban, saw $2.93bn of deals on its opening in Riyadh
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Abu Dhabi March 2023 events: comic book superheroes, UAE recruitment, nuclear conference and more
Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre events in March 2023
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UAE dental conference AEEDC ends with $4.7bn of deals
Record deals reported at UAE International Dental Conference and Arab Dental Exhibition, AEEDC Dubai 2023
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ADNEC opens the biggest waterfront exhibition space in MENA region
The 10,000 (sqm) multi-purpose Marina Hall, built over a 153,000 (sqm) area, is a specialised waterfront exhibition hall and complements ADNEC’s other facilities
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DXB Live reveals strategic plan to become region’s biggest integrated events entity in 2022
Over the past decade, DXB Live has provided a complete range of in-house services for events by engaging with more than 300 industry professionals
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How Dubai is aiming to be the ‘meeting place of the world’
Issam Kazim, CEO of Dubai Tourism, hailed the importance of the events sector at the MEA conference of UFI, the Global Association of the Exhibitions Industry
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Abu Dhabi’s Adnec secures VAT waiver for UAE exhibitors
VAT waiver covers exhibitions and conferences held over a period not exceeding seven days, says Adnec
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Mega events drive Dubai World Trade Centre to new high
Dubai World Trade Centre welcomed 3.43 million delegates last year, an increase of 4%, driven by nearly 100 large-scale events