Govt ministers, policymakers and senior global commute leaders will collect at Arabian Commute Marketplace’s (ATM) 2026 subsequent week, because the tourism trade comes in combination in Dubai to inspect the way forward for commute locally and the world over, from 14–17 September at Dubai International Industry Centre (DWTC).
This 12 months’s version will characteristic over 210 influential audio system from the federal government and the non-public sector as a part of the programme at the World and Long term Levels, and the Enjoy Hub. Throughout greater than 80 periods, discussions are anticipated to deal with subjects together with resilience and global cooperation, synthetic intelligence (AI), aviation and connectivity, hospitality, traveller behaviour, funding, sustainability and industry occasions.
Opening the World Degree programme on 14 September, H.E. Shaikha Al Nuwais will ship a UN Tourism welcome deal with, adopted by way of H.E. Abdulla bin Touq Al Marri, UAE Minister of Economic system and Tourism.
The outlet day may even characteristic the high-level Ministerial Debate: Construction A Resilient Business Via Collaboration, inspecting how the GCC can fortify traveller self assurance, reinforce its international competitiveness and construct the rules for long-term tourism expansion.
The talk will convey in combination H.E. Abdulla bin Touq Al Marri; H.E. Shaikha Al Nuwais; H.E. Fatima bint Jafar Al Sairafi, Bahrain Minister of Tourism and Apostolos Tzitzikostas, Ecu Commissioner for Sustainable Delivery and Tourism. The dialogue will imagine the position of coordinated vacation spot messaging, disaster communications, coverage alignment and cooperation between governments, supply markets, airways and the broader tourism trade.
Danielle Curtis, Regional Portfolio Director – UAE, RX World, mentioned: “We’re happy to be bringing in combination the sort of excessive calibre of individuals for this 12 months’s convention programme, from UN Tourism and executive ministers to senior leaders and mavens from around the global commute trade. The breadth of experience throughout our phases displays the problems that topic maximum to the field these days, from resilience and traveller self assurance to AI, connectivity, funding, converting client behaviour and the long run team of workers.
“By means of combining senior-level views with analysis, marketplace intelligence and sensible dialogue, we wish the programme to offer attendees precious insights they may be able to take again to their companies, whilst growing a very powerful discussion board for the trade to replace concepts and discover the alternatives shaping the way forward for commute.”
Analysis and marketplace intelligence can be central to the World Degree programme. Stephen Dutton, World Perception Supervisor – Commute at Euromonitor World, will read about the have an effect on of inflation, geopolitical uncertainty and converting client priorities in The State of Commute: Inflation, Polycrisis & the New Commute Fact.
Tourism Economics, an Oxford Economics corporate, may even go back with the once a year ATM Commute Traits File. Dave Goodger, Managing Director, EMEA, Tourism Economics, will provide Center East Momentum & Marketplace Shifts, inspecting the place global commute call for is transferring and the alternatives rising for the Center East. He’s going to additionally sign up for senior representatives from the private and non-private sectors to talk about why commute call for within the area continues to show resilience.
Hospitality may even characteristic prominently. Haitham Mattar, Managing Director MEA & South West Asia, IHG Accommodations & Lodges, will seem at the World Degree, whilst audio system around the wider programme will read about how converting visitor expectancies, generation and experience-led commute are influencing the way forward for the field.
Generation strikes from a convention theme to a central a part of the customer journey at ATM Commute Tech, the devoted co-located display making its complete debut at ATM 2026. Its Long term Degree will read about how AI, fintech, virtual distribution and attached platforms are transferring from experimentation into industrial utility. On the Tech & Innovation Hub – Demo Zone, attendees can journey the way forward for commute first-hand, with greater than 15 interactive demos from main Commute Tech firms showcasing the newest inventions and answers.
Dr Marwan Alzarouni, CEO, AI on the Dubai Division of Economic system and Tourism (DET), will open the Long term Degree programme with AI’s True Function in Rewriting the Commute Panorama, exploring how AI is converting the infrastructure, coverage and ecosystems underpinning commute.
The programme may even convey in combination senior representatives from firms together with Sabre, Shuttle.com, Tripadvisor, Wego, MakeMyTrip, RateGain and Visa. Periods will read about agentic AI, the way forward for on-line commute businesses, funding and consolidation, virtual discovery and the converting commute provide chain.
Some of the global generation leaders collaborating is Schubert Lou, CEO of Shuttle.com, who will sign up for Ross Veitch, CEO of Wego, and Raj Rishi Singh, Leader Trade Officer – Company, Flights and GCC at MakeMyTrip, for a dialogue on how AI and accelerating innovation cycles are converting the aggressive panorama for on-line commute platforms.
Along the World and Long term phases, the Enjoy Hub will create a extra interactive discussion board for industry occasions, company commute, sustainability and peer-to-peer dialogue. Organisations together with ICCA, IAPCO, GBTA and SITE will lead periods addressing the way forward for conferences and incentives, regional collaboration and converting company commute priorities.
ICCA’s Past Borders: The Center East’s Collaborative Imaginative and prescient for a World Trade Occasions Long term will convey in combination senior tourism and occasions representatives from around the area to discover how industry occasions can beef up funding, ability and data alternate. Contributors will come with representatives from the Oman Conference Bureau, Bahrain Tourism & Exhibition Authority, Discuss with Qatar and Ras Al Khaimah Tourism Building Authority.
Now in its thirty third version, Arabian Commute Marketplace will happen from 14–17 September 2026 at Dubai International Industry Centre, bringing the global commute group in combination to construct partnerships, alternate marketplace intelligence and discover the alternatives shaping the following generation of worldwide tourism.
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