Emirates Airlines to sponsor 15th Dubai Summer Surprises Festival

Emirates Airlines recently announced it will again be the main sponsor of this year’s 15th Dubai Summer Surprises Festival. According to the airline, the festival will coincide with the return of the Middle East region’s highly-popular Modhesh World, a family edutainment facility. This year’s festival slogan is “Dubai. Summer Fun and More”. The airline has been sponsoring the festival ever since its inception in 1998.

Ibrahim Saleh, Dubai Summer Surprises Festival co-ordinator general and deputy chief executive officer of Dubai Events and Promotions Establishment (DEPE), said that every year the popularity of the festival is growing. More than 122,000 people from Qatar visited Dubai during the festival period in 2011. Khalid al-Serkal, Country Manager of Emirates Airlines, was also present along with Ibrahim Saleh during the media briefing.

The 15th Dubai Summer Surprises Festival will start from June 14 and will continue up to July 14, 2012. However, the activities at Modhesh World, the largest indoor edutainment of its kind in the region, will continue until the end of Eid al-Fitr, which is expected to be around August 22.

More than 20 daily Emirates Airlines flights will operate between Doha and Dubai to ease the high visitor traffic expected this year. Emirates Airlines currently operates five daily flights between Doha and Dubai, which will be increased to 6 in August this year.