Dubai Exhibition Centre (Expo City Dubai)

Dubai Exhibition Centre sits inside Expo City Dubai, the 4.38 sq km legacy site of Expo 2020 on Dubai's southern edge, next to Al Maktoum International Airport. It opened in 2021 as the Expo's purpose-built exhibition venue and is owned and operated by Dubai World Trade Centre, which has kept it running since the world fair closed. Dubai World Trade Centre positions it, once the expansion is complete, as the region's largest indoor purpose-built venue for events. The current building has six halls and 58,000 sqm of column-free exhibition space within 130,000 sqm of built-up area, arranged along a 490 m north–south concourse; two main complexes carry the halls and their meeting facilities. An AED 10 billion expansion is under way. Phase one, due in 2026, adds 64,000 sqm of permanent and 30,000 sqm of temporary space, taking the venue to 140,000 sqm and a daily capacity of 50,000 visitors; phase two in 2029 lifts it to 160,000 sqm, and the 2031 masterplan reaches 180,000 sqm, 34 halls, 1.2 km in length and 65,000 daily visitors. The plan also adds a 22,000 sqm external plaza, 7,000 sqm of retail and food, 300 hotel keys and a 5,000-space multi-storey car park. The architecture is Expo 2020's: large-span halls behind a restrained envelope, with the Al Wasl dome and the surviving national pavilions as neighbours. The Red Line's Expo 2020 station sits within the site, and Expo Road links to the E311.