DWTC catered for 1,000 external events in 2018

The team has unrivalled expertise in providing catering solutions for high profile events of all sizes, both at the venue and off site

Mohammed Al Jumairi, VP of Event Operations, DWTC

dubai — Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC) has revealed that its hospitality division — Hospitality by DWTC — catered for 1,056 highprofile external events in 2018, serving a total of 415,293 guests.

Mohammed Al Jumairi, vicepresident of Event Operations, Dubai World Trade Centre, said that the impressive results for 2018 are a testament to the competency of the entire Hospitality by DWTC team — from chefs to service staff — who are the future of the industry and its driving force.

“The team has unrivalled expertise in providing catering solutions for high profile events of all sizes, both at the venue and off site — from weddings and gala dinners, to banquets and concerts — which is further supported by a well-developed external event sales, operations, and logistics outfit. Innovation, creativity, world-class execution and services are the cornerstones of our approach to ensure that we continue to raise the bar for our offering, benchmarking ourselves against the best in the world and reinforcing Dubai’s position on the culinary map,” he said.

Hospitality by DWTC has 148 chefs from 19 countries and more than 300 trained service staff that cater for over two million people per year and can serve 15,000 covers a day. In 2018, DWTC’s catering fleet, consisting of nine refrigerated trucks, six 305-tonne dry trucks, and three buses, covered a distance of 435,396km — equivalent to 10.86 times the distance around the world.

Its Dh22 million kitchen with 3,650sqm of working area, allows for full in-house production. Some of the team’s biggest contracts in 2018 include the Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Cyber Quest 2018, Jubilee Games, Dubai International Boat Show, MEBAA, Sharjah Book Fair, ICCA Gala Dinner, as well as several royal weddings across the UAE with an average attendance of 2,000 per wedding. Exciting events coming up this year include the Special Olympics World Games 2019, Dubai Airshow among others. Specialising in bespoke, large-scale weddings, Hospitality by DWTC hosted 165 weddings at DWTC and a further 150 weddings at external venues managed by DWTC. In addition, the team provided catering services for 25 weddings at private venues across the UAE.