Dubai Resets After Covid-Ravaged Year With $7 Billion Expo

Dubai expects the event to attract 25 million visits -- both virtually and in personPhotographer: Christopher Pike/Bloomberg
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One year after the pandemic forced a delay, Dubai is set to open its $7 billion Expo on a desert site the size of 600 football fields.

Having spent years preparing for the event, the city hopes that an exhibition featuring autonomous vehicles, a pavilion shaped like falcons and one with an original Pharaoh coffin will attract enough tourists to help solidify a nascent economic recovery.