{"id":2336,"date":"2013-04-16T11:59:04","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T11:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.franchisemart.in\/franchise\/?p=2336"},"modified":"2013-04-16T11:59:04","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T11:59:04","slug":"abu-dhabi-sets-up-panel-to-drive-retail-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.franchisemart.in\/franchise\/abu-dhabi-sets-up-panel-to-drive-retail-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Abu Dhabi sets up panel to drive retail sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.franchisemart.in\/franchise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/images3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.franchisemart.in\/franchise\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/images3.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"images\" width=\"118\" height=\"80\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2337\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Abu Dhabi Tourism &#038; Culture Authority (TCA Abu Dhabi) has set up a dedicated industry development committee (IDC) to drive the retail sector in the emirate.<br \/>\nThe committee, comprising representatives of 14 leading retail operations, met for the first time this week to begin talks on identifying issues impacting the industry. It also aims to devise tactics \u201cfor meshing the sector more into Abu Dhabi\u2019s overall tourism proposition\u201d.<br \/>\nThe move comes as neighbour Dubai attracts a vast number of tourists on the back of its reputation for luxury shopping, including giant malls such as Dubai Mall and Mall of the Emirates.<br \/>\n\u201cRetail plays a key role in enhancing the visitor experience, particularly for some of our key emerging markets such as India, China and Russia,\u201d said Mohammed Al Dhaheri, quality and performance manager, TCA Abu Dhabi, who is chairing the authority\u2019s retail IDC.<\/p>\n<iframe src='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.franchisemart.in%2Ffranchise%2Fabu-dhabi-sets-up-panel-to-drive-retail-sector%2F&amp;layout=button_count&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=280&amp;action=recommend&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=30' scrolling='no' frameborder='0' style='border:none; overflow:hidden; height:30px' allowTransparency='true'><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abu Dhabi Tourism &#038; Culture Authority (TCA Abu Dhabi) has set up a dedicated industry development committee (IDC) to drive the retail sector in the emirate. The committee, comprising representatives&#8230; <a class=\"meta-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.franchisemart.in\/franchise\/abu-dhabi-sets-up-panel-to-drive-retail-sector\/\">Read more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<iframe src='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.franchisemart.in%2Ffranchise%2Fabu-dhabi-sets-up-panel-to-drive-retail-sector%2F&amp;layout=button_count&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=280&amp;action=recommend&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=30' scrolling='no' frameborder='0' style='border:none; overflow:hidden; height:30px' allowTransparency='true'><\/iframe>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisemart.in\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisemart.in\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisemart.in\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisemart.in\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisemart.in\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisemart.in\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisemart.in\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisemart.in\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchisemart.in\/franchise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}