DUBAI, UAE — Some Dubai government officials in attendance at the recent Dubai Hotel Show expect over 300 new hotels to be built here with many other existing hotels to be refurbished in time for the Expo 2020 World’s Fair in Dubai, October 2020-April 2021.

The last Dubai Hotel Show took place at the Dubai World Trade Center September 28-30, 2014.

The show organizer, DMG said over 600 exhibitors, mostly  from the Gulf States and Asia, and approximately 17, 000 trade visitors from 98 countries were present. “The show was very upbeat based on future growth of new hotels in the region, including accelerating growth in the mid level three and four star categories,” according to Larry Brill, an export consultant in the USA. 

The Dubai Hotel Show featured an American Group Stand, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s, Office of Textiles and Apparel (OTEXA). The OTEXA stand which included nine companies featured Rhona L.K. Schonwald, a fine artist who is licensing her designs for bedding, upholstery, wallcoverings, and carpets for the hospitality industry and JVA Art Group, artwork and photography fabrication and solutions.