Expo 2020 Dubai received 411,768 visits in its first ten days.
According to Arabiya Net, visitors belong to 175 different nationalities, and one out of every three visitors was a foreign tourist, not residing in the country.
The first week of the Expo was undoubtedly a successful one, said Dimitri Kirkentzis, Secretary General of the BIE. The numbers we are seeing so far are very encouraging and show the desire of people all over the world to reconnect and work together for a better future.
Shauna McGee, Vice President of Communications at Expo 2020 Dubai, said that despite the temperatures, the number of visits to Expo 2020 Dubai during the first ten days of the event reached To 41,768 visits via tickets from 175 nationalities, which is not far from the 192 countries participating in the exhibition.
McGee pointed out that international markets contributed one visitor out of 3 visitors to Expo 2020 Dubai, and this is an important achievement, especially since we did not reach the peak of international tourism in Dubai, and we usually see an increase in the number of Dubai tourists in late October, with the start of vacations in many countries and the holidays, and this percentage is expected to increase with the increase in international travel.
These statistics are representative of the Expo 2020 Dubai ticket campaign and do not include representatives, delegations and guests of international participants, partners, all partners, and Expo members, but only ticket holders.
She pointed out that multi-day and seasonal were the most popular, noting that one out of every 5 visitors during the first ten days came to the exhibition more than once.
And she indicated that 3 million people had watched the opening of the international event virtually, in addition to an additional 5 million views of the virtual Expo 2020 Dubai since the beginning of this October.
McGee expected that the number of visitors to Expo 2020 Dubai will increase in the coming period with lower temperatures and better weather, especially with the presence of special and new events programs daily that attract visitors' interest .
She explained that there is interest from families not only in the pavilions and Al-Wasl Square, but in other areas such as children's play areas, and with the opening of international markets more and the increase in the number of international tourism, we will see Increase the number of visitors even more.
