{"id":21427,"date":"2017-12-07T15:34:19","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T11:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/?p=21427"},"modified":"2017-12-07T15:34:19","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T11:34:19","slug":"technological-innovations-will-boost-middle-east-retail-spend-to-record-highs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/2017\/12\/07\/technological-innovations-will-boost-middle-east-retail-spend-to-record-highs\/","title":{"rendered":"Technological innovations will boost Middle East retail spend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A project to build a major shopping mall in Muscat will contribute to the rapid acceleration of the retail sector in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Trade from the Mall of Oman, which will feature 350 outlets in a 137.000 square metres of retail space, will contribute to the growth of the GCC\u2019s retail sector expected to hit a high of USD 313 billion by 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Along with other developments such as the City Centre Al Jazira in Abu Dhabi and the Mall of Saudi in Riyadh, the Mall of Oman will utilise technology to transform the in-store experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAudiovisual innovations are the biggest game changers for transforming the atmospheric and spatial qualities for GCC Smart Cities and smart interiors,\u201d said Dr Dolli Daou, Director, Association of Professional Interior Designers while at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.infocomm-mea.com\/\">InfoComm Middle East and Africa<\/a>\u00a0(MEA), the region\u2019s largest professional audiovisual event.<\/p>\n<p>As malls transform into shopping destinations, live events are increasingly common for them \u00a0to differentiate themselves from the e-commerce experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGCC malls are no longer only about shopping \u2013 with mall operators and retailers transforming malls into entertainment destinations,\u201d said Hans J van den Berg, CEO, AudiCom Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>InfoComm MEA was been held under the theme of \u2018See the Future of Networked Communications\u2019 and hosted more than 100 exhibitors from 20 countries.    \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A project to build a major shopping mall in Muscat will contribute to the rapid acceleration of the retail sector in the Middle East. Trade from the Mall of Oman, which will feature 350 outlets in a 137.000 square metres of retail space, will contribute to the growth of the GCC\u2019s retail sector expected to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":21428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[809,432,4320,79],"tags":[468,4432,4433,3667,4434,4435,300,4436,4437,4438,562,431,775,811,244],"class_list":["post-21427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more-news","category-oman","category-retail","category-used","tag-abu-dhabi","tag-association-of-professional-interior-designers","tag-audicom-middle-east","tag-audiovisual","tag-city-centre-al-jazira","tag-dr-dolli-daou","tag-gcc","tag-infocomm-middle-east","tag-mall-of-oman","tag-mall-of-saudi","tag-middle-east","tag-oman","tag-retail","tag-riyadh","tag-smart-cities"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}