Hotelier Middle East – August 2019

EVENT PREVIEW

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which is forecast to increase to 30 mil-
lion visitors collectively,” reveals Ven-
tures Onsite.

Creative Cuisine
The second edition of The Chef ’s Table
competition will provide an ideal platform
for chefs to display their skills and cre-
ativity. Hailing from 12 hotels across the
UAE and their respective teams will star
in the timed cooking competition where
the ingredients are not revealed until the
buzzer goes.
Uwe Micheel, president of the Emirates
Culinary Guild, will lead the panel of chefs
judging the competition. Speaking about
his participation, he said: “Team eff ort will
be integral to win this competition where
the contending teams will be judged on
hygiene, kitchen skills, creativity in putting
the ingredients together, cooking skills,
and of course taste.”
To recreate the experience that a diner
has from the moment he or she steps into
a restaurant, the participating teams are
required to have one barman, two ser-
vice members, and three members in the
kitchen, with the addition of a steward.
Shedding light on challenges faced
by chefs in the Middle East Chef Uwe
revealed that there is pressure to priori-
tise aesthetics over taste so that the food
is social media-worthy. Another looming
issue in the local and global industry is food
wastage which can be resolved when each
one of us are more responsible while con-
suming and serving food.
The chef strongly encourages consum-
ers to be more mindful about the quan-
tity ordered for a table or served on one’s
plate so that it does not get wasted. He
also stressed that operators too have to
consider more effi cient ways to control

Uwe Micheel. Abdallah and Faizal from Godwin Austen Johnson.

The Hotel Show Dubai will take place from 17th – 19th September at Dubai World Trade Cen-

tre and will be co-located with INDEX, Workspace, The Leisure Show, Surface Design Middle

East, FIM, and INDEX Home

For more information about this

year’s edition of The Hotel Show,

visit: thehotelshow.com or follow @

Thehotelshow on Instagram

food wastage if not for which a crisis in the

near future is inevitable. “If this is left unat-

tended, my grandchildren and the future

generation may have to eat pills instead of

food,” concluded a concerned Micheel.

Rating Rooms

A select group of interior designers and

fi t-out contractors will be competing in the

event’s newest feature - The Hotel Room

Design Challenge. Competing teams will

have a designated space within the event

to create their room set design, based upon

the theme Dubai: A World of Possibility,

A Lifetime of Stories. Visitors at the event

will vote for their favourite design and the

winning team will be awarded at the Mid-

dle East Hospitality Awards on 18th Sep-

tember at the Ritz Carlton DIFC.

The Hotels Market Report by Ventures

Onsite predicts that the overall GCC inte-

riors and fi t-out spend in the hotel sector

is expected to be worth AED 10.9 billion

($2.9 billion) in 2019, with the UAE and

KSA emerging as high spenders in interior

design and fi t-out sector in the GCC.

Dmg events portfolio director – Hospi-

tality Division Nathan Waugh said: “Every

year, at the Hotel Show, we look to improve

and refresh our feature content, to ensure

that the event remains fresh, relevant and

inspirational for all our stakeholders. In

particular, this year, as we celebrate the

20 th anniversary of The Hotel Show, we

wanted to include a feature which allows

designers the opportunity to express

themselves, and challenge themselves to

represent the past, present and future of

Dubai through design.”

Chefs will be challenged by surprise ingredients.

Housekeepers show off their bed-making skills.

Networking opportunities abound at the show.