Expo 2020 Dubai visitor number targets remain the same despite coronavirus rules

Expo 2020 Dubai visitor number targets remain the same despite coronavirus rules

Projected visitor numbers to next year's delayed Expo 2020 Dubai remain the same, despite heightened health and safety regulations as a result of the global Covid-19 pandemic.

It had been feared that the audience for the event, which was initially forecast to attract in the region of 25 million visits over its six-month duration, would be scaled down because of social distancing restrictions designed to curb the spread of the virus.

However, Manal AlBayat, chief sales & marcomms officer at Expo 2020 Dubai, told Arabian Business the targets for visitor numbers remained the same, with 70 percent of those attending the event expected to come from overseas.

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She said: “As of right now, we are not changing our projections, we are not changing our numbers. We are still working towards them, but we are keeping a close eye to see if we need to change. We're still about ten months away and a lot can happen in a month's time, let alone ten months' time.

“We're lucky in the sense that our site is big enough that we don't necessarily have that problem, but we're constantly doing simulations and checks to make sure, whether it's looking at visitation numbers, whether it's looking at how