UAE Business: Marhaba France concludes with a special Expo edition – Gulf Digital News

UAE Business: Marhaba France concludes with a special Expo edition – Gulf Digital News

Marhaba France Expo Special Edition returned to Dubai last month, featuring a delegation of 60-plus exhibitors from across France, with the two-day event taking place at the Expo 2020’s Pavilion France and the Raffles Hotel Dubai.

The event hosted travel professionals from across the Middle East. The event took place in the last month of Expo 2020 Dubai, which saw a total of 2.2 million visitors at the France Pavilion.

“The attendees interacted with French tourism boards, unmissable French tourist attractions, high-end shopping facilities, hotels, palaces, DMCs, transportation companies and amusement parks,” says Karim Mekachera, Regional Director, Middle East & Turkey, Atout France.

“Marhaba France has grown year on year with more French tourism operators joining on the back of thousands of contracts signed each year. This year included for the first time, the Israeli and the Indian markets along with the Gulf and the Levant. A total of 61 suppliers and 125 travel operators scheduled more than 2,500 meetings over two days.”

Cote D’Azur Regional Tourism

The region is putting an effort into upgrading and adding more four- and five-star hotels. This includes the one-billion-euro renovation of the Carlton Intercontinental Hotel in Cannes, and a new Anantara hotel in Nice, specially targeting the Middle