Dubai: The first world exhibition to be held in the Middle East, Expo 2020 Dubai, opened on Thursday with fireworks, music, and messaging about the power of global collaboration for a more sustainable future.
The stars supported the opening ceremony, projected in public spaces around the UAE, including Italian tenor singer Andrea Bocelli, English singer Ellie Goulding, Chinese Pianist Lang Lang and Saudi singer Mohammed Abdu.
Dubai, Tourism, Tourism, and a business center in the region, hopes to improve its economy by drawing 25 million business visits and tourists to the world world that has been built from the beginning of the 4.3 Km square desert (1.7 square kilometers).
Many countries and companies are also looking for Expo – the first major global event that is open to visitors since the Pandemic Coronavirus – to increase trade and investment.
The Full Expo site will open the door for exhibitors from nearly 200 countries on Friday after being postponed for a year with a pandemic.
Selected eight years ago to take part in the 2015 Expo in Milan, Italy, costs around $ 6.8 billion.
Dubai said he wanted exhibitions, cultural exhibitions, technology, and architecture under banners “connecting thoughts and creating future”, to be a demonstration of ingenuity, and a place where global challenges such as climate change, conflict and economic growth were overcome together.
This event might compete with global reluctance to travel and many events will be channeled online.
But the Expo still hopes to attract more visits than Milan received and more than twice the UAE population.
“We are quite confident …
that responsibly in how we manage the situation with Coviv but also in the way we submit an interesting program for visitors, we will hopefully be able to enter needles by opening but remain at all.
Conservative time and guard Public security first and especially, “Reem Al Hashimy, Director General of Expo 2020 Dubai told Reuters.
The Gulf Country has relaxed most of the restrictions of Coronavirus but the exhibition requires facial masks to be worn and for visitors more than 18 to vaccinate, or negative tests for, Covid-19.
Before the pandemic, consultation estimated that the exhibition would be for six months to contribute 1.5% of the UAE gross domestic product.