Who visits MEE
MEE brings together board level operators from retail organisations and businesses in around 50 markets across the Middle East, the Indian sub-continent, Africa, the CIS, Central Asia and beyond.
The event is a crucial sourcing opportunity for the latest premier products and branded goods – as well as an essential meeting point for buyers, operators and decision makers from:
• airports |
• ship chandlers |
• hotels |
Travel retail gateway
Middle Eastern airlines and carriers in the region have grown substantially. Ambitious expansion plans continue to create opportunities and cement MEE‘s reputation as an important business platform for attracting retail operators and buyers from across the Greater Middle East, Africa, Indian subcontinent and key markets within Central Asia.
The Dubai location of MEE – i.e., its close proximity to the region’s ‘action’ – makes it a real hub for uniting and stimulating ideas, products and deals by key players – from East and West.
Airport retail projects within the region’s catchment area – worth close to $60 billion – are also on course to completion. Other industry boosters in the travel retail market include flourishing new budget airlines, such as FlyDubai, and the growth of young airlines, such as Bahrain Air, Kuwait’s Jazeera Airways and Saudi Arabia’s Nas Air. These, alongside the major players including Emirates Airlines, Etihad Airways, Saudi Arabian Airlines, Kuwait Airways, Gulf Air and Qatar Airways means routes are continually expanding and traveller access and capacity is increasing throughout the region and further afield.
MEE plays host to your existing and/or potential clients and customers – spanning retail operators, airport and duty free retailers, cruise lines, luxury goods retailers and businesses supplying products within the duty free sector.