THE Dubai Corporation of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DCTCM) has set up a new hub office to service the Asia Pacific region.
The Asia Pacific Regional Office will oversee the work of DCTCM’s existent offices in the Far East, Japan, Australia and New Zealand to maximise the opportunity to increase visitor numbers from Australia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand. Based in Sydney, the office will be led by Julie King, with the responsibilities added to her current remit as director of DCTCM’s Australia and New Zealand representative office. Shehab Al Shayan has been appointed as regional manager, Asia Pacific and will be based in DCTCM’s head office in Dubai.The move is part of the strategy to deliver Dubai’s Tourism Vision 2020, which includes the target of welcoming 20 million visitors per year by the end of the decade, and follows recent strengthening of resources in the Australia and New Zealand office, in recognition of the visitor growth potential of the region. WORLD HEALTH CONGRESS IN DUBAI: