EXPO 2020 | Candidate Cities

[Face81]

Btw, there's a whole thread in the UAE forums on Dubai's bid if anyone wants to follow it:
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...901632&page=10

Also, here's the latest news on the subject:

Originally Posted by Face81

United Arab Emirates: 2 hours, 41 minutes ago

The United Arab Emirates is enhancing its campaign to host the 2020 World Expo in Dubai, including launching new social media initiatives to generate increased community involvement in the UAE's bid to bring the Expo to the Middle East, Africa and Southeast Asia region for the first time in the event's 160-year history.

Today, the UAE launched an Expo 2020 Facebook page (www.facebook.com/ DubaiExpo2020) and is inviting individuals from across the country and the globe to contribute to this dialogue about the UAE bid specifically and World Expos generally. As part of this conversation, the Expo 2020 Facebook page will be enriched on an ongoing basis with information, images and ideas that bring to life the theme of the UAE bid: "Connecting Minds, Creating the Future."

An official Twitter account (@Dubaiexpo2020) has also been launched to support the online dialogue about World Expos and the UAE bid.

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The winner among the five candidate cities - which include Ayutthaya (Thailand); Ekaterinburg (Russia); Izmir (Turkey); and Sao Paulo (Brazil) - will be announced in November 2013 following a vote by the 160 member nations of the Paris-based Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), the international organisation responsible for overseeing the calendar, bidding, selection and organisation of World Expos.


Full story: http://www.ameinfo.com/uae-launches-...gn-host-300416

AND

Originally Posted by Face81

Tuesday, Feb 28, 2012

DUBAI (Zawya Dow Jones)--Dubai is ready to spend as much as $4 billion on infrastructure and construction projects should it be picked to host the World Expo in 2020, the emirate's officials said Tuesday.

"The estimates we have of what other countries had spent on hosting such an expo in the past, range between $2 billion to $4 billion on projects related to the expo including developing of infrastructure and construction... And Dubai looks to spend a similar sum," Hilal Al Marri, CEO of Dubai World Trade Centre told reporters.

However, "what Dubai will be spending on campaigning until the name of the host is announced on November 2013, will be a really small amount. The $2 billion to $4 billion, give or take, will be spent on expo-related projects until 2020 if we get to host it," he later told Zawya Dow Jones on the sidelines of a conference that launched the United Arab Emirates' campaign to host the 2020 World Expo in Dubai.

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28-02-12 1152GMT


Source: http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZW20120228000052/Dubai-to-invest-$4-bn-if-picked-to-host-World-Expo-2020-Official

And here's the promotional video for Dubai World Expo 2020

http://vimeo.com/38229819




And for those who want to learn a bit more about Dubai, here are a couple of really good informative videos:



And

[Turkiiish]

IZMIR EXPO 2020 - Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/expoizmir

[seabeeman]

I thought it was Chiang Mai for Thailand?

Taken from Chiang Mai airport when I was there last February 2011.

[FAAN]

São Paulo - Brazil

[Neungz]

Originally Posted by seabeeman

I thought it was Chiang Mai for Thailand?

Taken from Chiang Mai airport when I was there last February 2011.

Before that, the candidate cities in Thailand are Ayutthaya, Chiang Mai and Chonburi. Lastly, the government choose Ayutthaya. (but i think that chonburi is better choice than Ayutthaya)

[ParadiseLost]

Originally Posted by Face81

It's not called the era of austerity for nothing!

Besides, Dubai is a big player amongst the other candidate cities

It's called the era of austerity because we have idiot political leaders like Trichet (chief idiot), Merkel and our own Rutte who every time the blood flows a little more seem to say that we simply need to cut our wrists a little deeper because the flow is worse than expected. The political reality on the ground is finally starting the catch up to these idiots so maybe soon we will have some more rational economics again and we can finally restart the path of slow (maybe slightly more rapid) recovery they destroyed two years ago.

Politics aside though none if it really touches the real issue because we were disinterested in EXPO's LOOONG before there ever was any recession. I wonder why.

[Neungz]

EXPO2020 Ayutthaya pavilion in BOI fair 2011, Nonthaburi province, Thailand.

[Neungz]

[Turkiiish]

NEW YORK - Türkish Day - https://www.facebook.com/expoizmir

[Gutovsky]

São Paulo still needs a major event to put its pin in the map, show itself to the world. It's one of the biggest cities in the planet, biggest in the southern hemisphere, and is very little known. But I'd say Dubai gets this one, for its will in becoming a major destination.

[seabeeman]

Originally Posted by Neungz

Before that, the candidate cities in Thailand are Ayutthaya, Chiang Mai and Chonburi. Lastly, the government choose Ayutthaya. (but i think that chonburi is better choice than Ayutthaya)

Is Chonburi the island across chao phraya river from Bangkok or is it Thonburi?

[Neungz]

Originally Posted by seabeeman

Is Chonburi the island across chao phraya river from Bangkok or is it Thonburi?

Thonburi is a Bangkok's district.However, it's not a island.Wikipedia


for Chonburi Province.Wikipedia

[Perseus26]

Originally Posted by Gutovsky

São Paulo is one of the biggest cities in the planet, biggest in the southern hemisphere, and is very little known

San Paulo is not little known, it's just less popular than Rio, which is a Worldwide ICONIC city!

[Gutovsky]

People may know São Paulo by its name, but very little about the city itself... That's what I mean! For instance, do you think any of your non-forumer friends know any landmark from here?

[BruinsFan]

Boston really needs to look into the World Expo.

[Knitemplar]

Originally Posted by Gutovsky

São Paulo still needs a major event to put its pin in the map, show itself to the world. It's one of the biggest cities in the planet, biggest in the southern hemisphere, and is very little known. But I'd say Dubai gets this one, for its will in becoming a major destination.

Well, that's the problem with SP; it just grew too fast, too soon. It's nothing but a concrete jungle like NYC. But SP will have its moment in the sun with the Opening match of the 2014 WC. So the world will get to know more of SP.

[melrocks50]

GO AYUTTHAYA!!

[ParadiseLost]

Originally Posted by Knitemplar

Well, that's the problem with SP; it just grew too fast, too soon. It's nothing but a concrete jungle like NYC. But SP will have its moment in the sun with the Opening match of the 2014 WC. So the world will get to know more of SP.

Have you ever been to New York? Concrete jungle is just a metaphor. it's a pretty handsome city.

[Turkiiish]

GOO IZMIR !

[Marcus Mendell]

Originally Posted by el palmesano

I hope Sao Paulo wins

I'm brazillian, but i hope not