{"id":43058,"date":"2019-11-05T12:14:25","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T12:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/?p=43058"},"modified":"2019-11-12T10:54:16","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T10:54:16","slug":"gitex-has-positive-impact-on-dubais-wider-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/2019\/11\/05\/gitex-has-positive-impact-on-dubais-wider-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"GITEX has positive impact on Dubai\u2019s wider economy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>GITEX Technology week continues to have a\npositive impact on Dubai\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Results published in the <em>GITEX Technology Week Economic Impact Assessment\n2019 Report<\/em>, issued by Dubai World Trade Centre, have revealed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>This year\u2019s event generated a total sales\noutput of AED 1.6 billion and AED 919 million in retained\nvalue for Dubai\u2019s GDP \u2013 excluding deals and infrastructure<\/li><li>For every AED\n1 spent by an attendee at GITEX, 4.5 times the revenue impact was generated across Dubai\u2019s wider economy<\/li><li>The 2019 event hosted 171,282\nattendees, 33% of whom were international and contributed 75% of overall direct\nspend <strong><\/strong><\/li><li>GITEX is estimated to have supported 6,239\njobs, creating AED 300\nmillion in surplus disposable wealth for domestic consumerism<strong><\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The report provides in-depth insights\ninto how the scale of global exhibitors and visitors at GITEX collectively\nyield a ripple effect beyond the technology sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His Excellency Helal Saeed Almarri,\nDirector General, Dubai World Trade Centre Authority and Dubai Department of\nTourism and Commerce Marketing, said: \u201cThe <em>2019\nGITEX Economic Impact Assessment <\/em><em>Report<\/em> sheds light on DWTC\u2019s approach and proven\nability to unlock ecosystem-wide economic value, creating even more critical\nwider socio-economic impact, ultimately spurring business expansion investment\nand leadership for Dubai as a global hub for international business.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GITEX Technology week continues to have a positive impact on Dubai\u2019s economy. Results published in the GITEX Technology Week Economic Impact Assessment 2019 Report, issued by Dubai World Trade Centre, have revealed: This year\u2019s event generated a total sales output of AED 1.6 billion and AED 919 million in retained value for Dubai\u2019s GDP \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":43059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[809,185],"tags":[420,3727,20,369],"class_list":["post-43058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more-news","category-uae","tag-dubai","tag-dubai-world-trade-centre","tag-gitex","tag-technology"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43058","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=43058"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43065,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43058\/revisions\/43065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}