| 27 Aug 2008 |
|
Sharjah gears up for Ramadan festival
- Text size
Wednesday, Aug 27, 2008
Dubai: Sharjah is gearing up for the upcoming 2008 Sharjah Ramadan Festival (SRF), which has chalked up a huge budget amounting to Dh20 million, a Dh3 million increase from last year.
Click here to see the prices of selected commodities
Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI)Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI)
general manager Hussain Al Mahmoudi said they have allocated Dh11 million of the budget for prizes and Dh3 to Dh4 million for promotion.
Touted as the most prominent event in Sharjah during Ramadan, the SRF is more than a month-long festival that features different events held across the emirate, with the aim of enhancing the city's economic, social and cultural image. It also seeks to increase awareness of Sharjah as a tourist destination and boost its position in the fairs, exhibitions and festivals industry.
Organised by the SCCI in collaboration with other federal ministries, establishments and government departments, the 2008 edition is expected to surpass the retail sales of the 2007 by 15 to 20 per cent.
Organisers are also bullish to smash last year's, as the number of activities and participating partners and sponsors have grown.
"Sales of this year's festival will supersede that of last year because the purchasing power of the consumers is now strong. They are making more money today and are enjoying better living standards," Al Mahmoudi told Gulf News. "Besides, people are also going back to school and there's Ramadan and Eid holidays to celebrate. All of these will increase the value of our sales during the festival."
He said they have chalked out various themes for the festival, offering a host of sports, religious, cultural, environmental, social and other activities for residents, families and visitors to enjoy. About 28 museums have signed up for the event and participating business outlets are likely to exceed 3,500.
The Sharjah Commerce and Tourism Development Authority (SCTDA)Sharjah Commerce and Tourism Development Authority (SCTDA) also announced yesterday its sponsorship of the festival.
"The Sharjah Ramadan Festival has elements and components that contribute on a large scale to Sharjah's burgeoning tourist and commercial sectors. The intensive promotional offers included in the festival attract ever greater number of tourists from within the region to the emirate," said Mohammad Al No'man, SCTDASCTDA director-general.
© Gulf News 2008. All rights reserved.
Zawya is a distributor (and not a publisher) of content supplied by third parties and subscribers. Any opinions, advice, statements, services, offers, or other information or content expressed or made available by those third parties, including information providers, subscribers or other users of the Service, are those of the respective author(s) or distributor(s) and not of the Company. The Company neither endorses nor is responsible for the accuracy or reliability of any opinion, advice or statement made on the Service by anyone other than authorized Service employee spokespersons while acting in their official capacities. The Company is not responsible for any infringement of intellectual property rights or breach of any applicable law or regulation, including regulation in relation to financial services or the distribution of financial products, defamation, data protection, telecommunications (including regulations relating to excessive use, spamming or other abusive activities) or obscene, offensive or illegal content). Under no circumstances will the Company be liable for any loss or damage caused by a member's reliance on information obtained through the Service. It is the responsibility of member to evaluate the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any information, opinion, advice or other content available through the Service. Please seek the advice of professionals, as appropriate, regarding the evaluation of any specific information, opinion, advice or other content.
Read the full Member Agreement
http://www.zawya.com/legal/NewsLetter.cfm?name=disclaimer
More News in Travel & Tourism
Loading ...
Post a Comment
1.1 Contain any material which is libelous or defamatory of any person, is obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory or causes damage to the reputation of any person or organisation.
1.2 Promote sexually explicit material, violence, discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age or any illegal activity.
1.3 Be made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence.
1.4 Be threatening, abuse or invade another's privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety.
1.5 Be used to impersonate any person, to misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person, or be likely to deceive any person.
1.6 Give the impression that they represent Zawya.
1.7 Advocate, promote or assist any unlawful act such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or computer misuse.