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New Team:
ITCA Dubai 2009 welcomes on board a new team which incorporates: Project manager, Julian Roach and Group Industry Director, Mark Napier. Please see contact details under "contact us" tab.
Precilla D'Souza remains the Assistant Co-ordination Manager on the Event.
New Halls:
The 2009 event shall be taking place in the New Halls being constructed at the DWTC
New Dates:
Moving the event to 16 - 18 November meant that ITCA Dubai will be coinciding with daes of the Dubai Airshow which attracts over 45,000 industry proffesionals.Both even organizers recognized the opportunity for collaboration, as running two major industry events two weeks apart, was conflicting with market demand.
Industry News:
Airline:
IATA reports that Middle Eastern carriers were the only ones to experience growth in March (4.7%). This is an improvement from the 0.4% growth in February, and represented an expansion of market share. But this was out of balance with the 13.1% increase in capacity.
Cruise:
The fledgling cruise industry in Dubai is picking up this year with 117,227 tourists in the emirate booked to go on world cruises aboard 99 cruise liners set to drop anchor at the Port Rashid Cruise Terminal all year round, according to local press.
Records at the Dubai Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DTCM) show a total of only 68,031 tourists from Dubai choosing cruise travel in 2008.
For this year, visitors booked for the last quarter alone total 26,790, representing a slight increase of 6,360 over last year's 20,430 cruise travelers.
From January to March this year, DTCM reported 90,442 cruise tourists arriving in Dubai, mostly from the U.S., Britain and Europe aboard 51 ships.
In March, three ships, Queen Victoria, Seven Seas Voyager and ms Rotterdam, which docked at the cruise terminal at the Port Rashid Complex, brought in 5,511 cruise tourists.
DTCM said that from the eight calls by cruise liners in 1996, the Dubai Cruise Terminal facility hosted 82 ships with 182,030 passengers in 2008.
This year, the total number of cruise tourists, both inbound and outbound, has grown to 260,817 based on the ship bookings until December. By 2010, Dubai is expected to host 99 ships with 383,432 passengers.
- Hibah No - Pax International, 13/05/09
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