Dubai Expo 2020 - Preview Master Plan - Unravel Travel TV

For the 2020 World Expo in Dubai, the UAE has selected the theme "Connecting Minds, Creating the Future". In today's highly interconnected world, a renewed vision of progress and development based on shared purpose and commitment is key. While a single human mind, an individual country, or a specific community is both unique and remarkable, it is by working collaboratively that we truly advance. The World Expo in Dubai in 2020 will be the first to be held in the MENASA (Middle East, North Africa and South Asia) region. As the global community faces ever more complex, and increasingly interconnected challenges, the links between people, societies and ideas have never been more important. Dubai Expo 2020 will be a platform for connectivity to help pioneer new partnerships for growth and sustainability for the future.

Theme
Dubai has a long history of facilitating connections and pioneering new ideas and Dubai Expo 2020 would be no different, with a predicted 70 per cent of the expected 25 million visitors originating from outside the host nation, making it the most international event in the history of Expo. It will therefore provide a unique platform for the global community to come together and explore creative and pioneering solutions to the three subthemes which have been identified as key drivers of global development:

Sustainability - lasting sources of energy and water
Mobility - smart systems of logistics and transportation
Opportunity - new paths to economic development

The focus will be on exploring their interdependencies and identifying potential partnerships, ultimately resulting in a legacy of innovation.

Venue
The site for World Expo 2020 Dubai will be Dubai Trade Center -- Jebel Ali: a 438 hectare site on the southwestern edge of Dubai. Equidistant from the centres of Abu Dhabi and Dubai, the site is located next to the new Al Maktoum International Airport and also located in close proximity to Jebel Ali Port, the third busiest port in the world.
In 2012 alone, more than 51 million passengers travelled through Dubai International Airport, where 150 airlines serve 220 destinations on six continents. Led by the success of Emirates Airline, the world's fastest-growing airline, Dubai Airport is now poised to be the world's busiest international airport by 2015. The logistical advantages of the site both for exhibitors -- bringing in materials and constructing pavilions -- and visitors, are clear. Securing an architectural legacy from Expo 2020, after the event the Dubai Trade Center -- Jebel Ali will be a lasting and working monument to the power of connectivity: a place for people to come together and make a difference.

Staging an Expo to remember
2021 will be the 50th anniversary of the United Arab Emirates. In the life of an individual half a century is a long time. Yet 50 years makes the UAE one of the youngest countries on the planet, with one of the most youthful populations -- 50 per cent is under 20. The rapid development of the UAE and Dubai shows what's possible. The UAE will harness the same energy and enthusiasm in microcosm at the Expo site. The UAE is logistically ready to host a World Expo. Two thirds of the world's population now lives within an eight-hour flight of Dubai. Just under nine million visitors made the trip in 2012. 80,000-plus hotel rooms will keep visitors comfortable during their visit to the Expo. Unrivalled connectivity, superb logistics and world-class infrastructure are at the heart of the plan. Philosophically, politically, creatively, logistically, Dubai is already coming together to deliver a World Expo that will inspire all who experience it and live long in the collective memory.

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