Dubai World Trade Centre

Dubai’s Sheikh Zayed Road highway is now a bustling skyline, a central business hub within a global city. In 1979, the Sheikh Rashid Tower started it all.

Dubai’s very first major tower and business centre, the Dubai World Trade Centre building instantly became the heartbeat of Dubai’s growing global business community. Renamed after the late Sheikh Rashid Bin Saeed Al Maktoum, the 39-storey Sheikh Rashid Tower no longer stands alone as it did then. The first of its kind in Dubai, the tower soon turned into a major landmark. A focal point for overseas businesses to establish their presence in a country rich with opportunity, the Dubai World Trade Centre embodied Sheikh Rashid’s vision of a modern city that would attract the world’s leading companies.

The demand for major events in Dubai soon skyrocketed, and the complex greatly expanded. Over the years, the Dubai World Trade Centre has been extended to include our numerous Exhibition Halls, Sheikh Rashid Hall and Maktoum Hall as well as the Convention Tower, Sheikh Saeed Halls and the Trade Centre Arena, giving rise to over one million square feet of space.

Dubai World Trade Centre has since been joined by numerous other skyscrapers alongside the Sheikh Zayed Road but it remains as it has always been – the pioneer of Dubai’s rise as a cosmopolitan commercial centre at the crossroads of the world.