Confirms Dubai's position and what it possesses to become a global cultural center

"Dubai City of Creativity" monitors the reality of cultural industries in the emirate

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Dubai Culture and Arts Authority "Dubai Culture" has launched a report entitled "Dubai City of Creativity: The Emirate's Growing Cultural Industries" to reaffirm Dubai's position and its global capabilities and infrastructure that qualifies it to become a global cultural center and a pioneer in cultural innovation, and that the cultural sector in The emirate has the ability to support the city's economic diversification and shape its future, setting a clear path for the growth of this sector through seven proposed enabling factors.

The launch of the report comes within the framework of Dubai Culture's projects aimed at supporting the achievement of the "Dubai Creative Economy Strategy" launched by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, to make Dubai the capital of the creative economy in the world by 2025. .

The report provided a comprehensive overview of the cultural sector in the Emirate of Dubai, providing readers, whether interested, industry experts or policy makers, with a valuable opportunity to take a forward-looking view based on the history of the creative sector in the emirate and the possibilities and opportunities available to this sector and its needs.

Her Highness Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, President of the Dubai Culture and Arts Authority and member of the Dubai Council, stressed the strategic importance of launching the “Dubai City of Creativity” report at this important stage of the emirate’s journey as a pillar for realizing the size of the economic contribution of the creative and cultural sector to the economy Dubai and support the emirate's GDP, and mechanisms to launch towards new horizons of growth and enhance the city's economic prosperity in the future.

Her Highness said: "The year 2021 is a special year in the march of our emirate and our country. In it, we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the founding of the UAE, and we will harness all our efforts to be active in the sustainable development journey that the country has adopted for the next 50 years, as Dubai organized an exceptional version of Expo 2020 Dubai, and the world gathered in the UAE to create a better future for humanity. In light of these unique facts, and out of our awareness of the importance of the creative economy as one of the catalysts for sustainable economic growth and advancing innovation, the timing of preparing this report was ideal to document and evaluate the emirate’s journey on the path to developing its cultural sector, and to anticipate its growth opportunities in the next decade.”

Her Highness, President of the Dubai Culture and Arts Authority, added: "The cultural and creative industries in the emirate have left a clear economic and social imprint over the past 20 years, contributing to stimulating innovation in other sectors of the economy, as well as their positive impact in strengthening the social fabric and enhancing knowledge and cultural exchange between the components of society. uniqueness, preserving the cultural and creative heritage, and shaping the future;

This was evident during the period of the Covid-19 pandemic more than ever before, as cultural events led the steps to recover from their effects, and accordingly, we tried in this report to identify the performance of the creative industries in Dubai and the role these industries played over the past two decades.

facts and stats

■ The culture sector in Dubai contributed about 4.02% of the emirate's total economic output in 2019.

■ Employment in the creative sectors is 3.6% of the total number of jobs in Dubai.

■ Dubai's creative economy generated revenues of more than 37 billion dirhams in 2019 and employed more than 108,000 people.

■ The design industry contributed more than 15.6 billion dirhams to Dubai's GDP in 2019

■ The demand for cultural activities in Dubai is increasing steadily, as household spending on cultural activity has been increasing at a faster pace than the increase in total household spending since 2014.

■ There are more showrooms in Dubai than in any other city in the MENA region.

■ The UAE's performance in the field of innovation ranks 34 out of 131 economies worldwide in the Global Innovation Index.

■ Dubai ranked among the 10 most influential cities in the world in the "Future Brand Country Index" for the year 2020.

Latifa bint Mohammed, "We are harnessing our efforts to be active in the sustainable development journey that the state has adopted for the next 50 years."

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