As Expo 2020 Dubai rolls into its fourth day, the six-month occasion has already attracted the eye of travellers all over the world.

Searches for flights to Dubai throughout Expo 2020 elevated within the lead as much as the grand opening of “the world’s best present”.

“We have now seen an enormous demand for searches for flights, as searches from overseas to the Emirates elevated 330 per cent within the final two weeks of September,” stated Mamoun Hmedan, managing director for Center East and India at Wego.

The net journey firm discovered that flight searches for journey to Dubai in the course of the Expo 2020 interval had surpassed searches for flights to Dubai from the identical interval in 2019, earlier than the worldwide pandemic and its devastating influence on air journey.

“By way of our platform, we’ve got additionally seen a rise in searches for flights for the Expo 2020 interval, reaching round 365,000 per week previous to the launch date and a rise of greater than 1,000 per cent in comparison with August.

“It exceeds 50 per cent of the variety of searches in the identical interval in 2019, and this means the rising demand for flights to Dubai,” stated Hmedan.

Dubai Tourism has stated that it expects Expo 2020 Dubai to host greater than 25 million native and international guests in its six-month run time.

Travellers who’re excited about taking a visit to Dubai for the occasion, which runs till March 31, can be happy to study that regardless of a rising curiosity in flights, airfares stay comparatively degree.

“We seen solely a slight airfare improve of three per cent in comparison with the identical interval in 2020, because of the improve in provide and the resumptions of extra flights to and from Dubai,” stated Hmedan.

Equally, the journey firm stated it had not but tracked any noticeable adjustments in lodge costs in Dubai in September, in comparison with August. Nonetheless, this might change because the UAE rolls into winter.

“There are indicators that lodge costs will rise by lower than 10 per cent with the method of winter and the beginning of the tourism season within the Emirates,” stated Hmedan.

Travellers planning a visit to the UAE in the course of the occasion interval can get free tickets to Expo 2020 Dubai when flying with Emirates, Etihad or flydubai. Some lodge teams, together with Emaar’s Handle Inns and Resorts, are additionally providing free passes to Expo 2020 Dubai to folks reserving stays within the subsequent six months.

India and Saudi Arabia lead flight searches

Further flight search information from Wego exhibits that individuals in India are among the many most fascinated with flying to Dubai in the course of the Expo 2020 interval. A complete of 28 per cent of flight searches originated within the subcontinent.

Saudi Arabia was the second-most nation, with 18 per cent of flight search visitors from throughout the Center East and North Africa coming from the dominion.

Plainly a go to to Expo 2020 Dubai isn’t merely a one or two-day journey, both. Wego discovered that travellers planning to e book flights to go to Dubai throughout Expo 2020 are coming for longer stays. “The typical length was for journeys of 23 days,” stated Hmedan.

Nearly all of searches tracked by the journey firm seemed to be for particular person flight bookings, which made up 73 per cent of the search visitors.

Pairs of tickets and group bookings accounted for 14 per cent and 13 per cent of searches, respectively.

Nonetheless, this doesn’t essentially imply there can be an inflow of solo travellers to Dubai, as folks usually worth out coming journey based mostly on one ticket earlier than including correct traveller info for his or her social gathering at a later stage of planning.

Up to date: October 4th 2021, 1:03 PM