Dubai Trade Center Hospitality provides its services to 1.28 million guests during 2025

Dubai World Trade Center Hospitality announced today that it has achieved record results during the year 2025, as it provided its services to about 1.28 million guests within 2,578 events, with a significant annual increase of 37% in the number of guests compared to 930,000 guests during the year 2024.

This growth reinforces the hospitality’s position as a leading provider of integrated hospitality services on a large scale, providing customized services for the government and private sectors, and family events.

The results reflect the remarkable expansion of Dubai World Trade Center hospitality in the events sector in the region, starting from major international exhibitions and high-level conferences to exclusive weddings and outdoor events.

Hospitality operations included Dubai World Trade Centre’s key locations, including the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre, Dubai Exhibition Centre, and Jafza One Convention Centre, as well as events, off-site locations and private venues across the country.

Executive Vice President of the Dubai World Trade Center, Maher Julfar, said: The hospitality of the Dubai World Trade Center plays a pivotal role in supporting the Dubai events and business tourism system by providing exceptional experiences and world-class services. Our strength is the ability to work on a large scale while maintaining the highest levels of accuracy and quality of service that befits a leading global destination. Hospitality today is no longer limited to catering services, but has become an integrated system that ensures the smooth and efficient implementation of events at every stage.

He stressed his readiness to support the next stage of growth of the major events sector in the region and to enhance Dubai’s position as a leading global destination for events.

Exhibition hospitality services were the strongest performer in 2025, with guest numbers rising to more than 240,000 guests, double the 120,000 guests served in 2024.

This growth is due to the expansion of major exhibitions at the Dubai World Trade Centre, including Gulfood, World Health, Arabian Travel Market and GITEX Global.

International expansion also contributed to this growth, as Dubai World Trade Center Hospitality provided its services to the GITEX Africa exhibition in Morocco, which reflects its ability to provide world-class hospitality services across borders.

Hospitality services for conferences, international associations and corporate meetings achieved exceptional results, with Dubai World Trade Center Hospitality providing its services to more than 123,000 guests in 2025.

Dubai World Trade Center Hospitality provided its services to more than 600,000 guests at corporate and private events in 2025, compared to 400,000 in 2024.

The wedding sector continued to grow, with 56,554 guests attending, highlighting hospitality’s ability to provide personalized experiences alongside catering services for major events.

The Dubai Exhibition Center and Jafza One Convention Center contributed significantly to the 2025 results, with hospitality services provided to more than 80,000 guests at both locations.

The multiple locations allow Dubai World Trade Center Hospitality to accommodate an ever-expanding events calendar while maintaining the highest levels of quality across all locations.

Offshore event hospitality services continued to drive strong growth, with offsite hospitality services increasing by 12% and serving more than 160,000 guests at 1,211 events, including major events such as the Dubai International Boat Show, the Formula 1 Etihad Airways Grand Prix in Abu Dhabi, the Dubai World Cup, the MIBA Business and Private Jet Show, in addition to providing event hospitality services at Ain Dubai.

Julphar stressed the continued work towards raising hospitality standards in the events sector across the region.

He said that as Dubai continues to consolidate its position as a competitive global destination for events, the role that hospitality plays in the success of each event increases, which drives us at the Dubai World Trade Center to focus on building long-term strategic partnerships with event organizers and investing in talent and innovation in the culinary arts, in addition to promoting sustainable practices in all our operations. Through these efforts, we are laying the foundations for sustainable growth over the next decade, and contributing to strengthening Dubai’s position as a global business center.