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Expo 2020 Dubai recorded 771,000 ticketed visits since opening

ISLAMABAD: Expo 2020 Dubai has attracted more than 771,000 visits from ticket holders since the start of the international event on 1st day of October, 2021, with a weekly growth of 12%, which confirms the wide interest in the global event, after it witnessed about 412,000 in the first 10 days.

The figures include all physical ticket holders but exclude representatives, delegations, guests from international participants and Expo staff. “Almost half of all the visitors hold a season pass,” said Sconaid McGeachin, senior vice president of communications.

“We’ve had more than 100,000 coming to the site twice and more than 35,000 coming more than three times”. She said the world’s fair had welcomed 181 nationalities since the opening of the event. The number of virtual visitors has reached 9.3 million since 1st day of October, rising by 1.5 million since the week before.

 

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M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.