ISLAMABAD, Feb 01 (APP):Expo 2020 Dubai’s visitor numbers have reached more than 11 million, organisers said on Tuesday.
With 58 days left — or eight weekends — before Expo 2020 closes, the world’s fair has recorded 11,608,240 visits since its opening on October 1, 2021, up to Monday, January 31.
Organisers said repeat visits rose to 57 per cent in January.
A third of all visitors came from abroad, with 10 per cent from Saudi Arabia, six per cent from Germany and five per cent from Russia, The National reported .
Expo 2020 Dubai’s virtual visitation numbers have crossed 100 million, largely driven by live entertainment — the Black Eyed Peas concert secured 24.4 million online visits alone.
Numbers will be boosted further in the coming weeks by the resumption of Dubai school visits and Expo’s Young Stars programme.
Dubai’s Knowledge and Human Development Authority — which administers private education in the emirate — announced that schools in the emirate could resume extra-curricular activities from Monday, January 28. They had been suspended since the start of the term.
“Thanks to the support and co-operation of parents, educators and [pupils], PE lessons, gatherings, trips and extra-curricular activities can resume from Jan 31,” the authority said.
Before the suspension of excursions, organisers estimated that around a third of the UAE’s school population had made trips to Expo, with more than 334,000 visits from pupils over the course of 41 school days.
