Dubai makes history with winning bid to host World Expo 2020

 

Dubai, 27 November 2013 (Khaleejtimes): Celebrations begin across the UAE as the winner of the Expo 2020 bid was announced in Paris, thousands witness fireworks at Burj Khalifa.

 

Dubai’s bid to host the World Expo in 2020 has been successful, it was announced this evening.

 

With this, Dubai will become the first city in the Middle East to host the global event. Dubai had in its proposal offered to hold the event form October 20, 2020 to April 10, 2021.

 

The announcement was made in Paris at the General Assembly of the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), the organization responsible for overseeing and regulating the bidding and the selection of the host city. Dubai -- with the theme ‘Connecting Minds, Creating The Future’, which focuses on infrastructure, sustainability and economic opportunities -- beat Izmir (Turkey), Ekaterinburg (Russia), and Sao Paulo (Brazil). The candidate city was decided by a voting procedure that comprised three secret ballots for which 167 member nations cast their votes.