Cityscape attendance tanks

The number of exhibitors at Cityscape Dubai looks to have plummeted by as much as 85 percent in a sign of how severely the emirate’s property market has been impacted by the global financial crisis, figures on Cityscape’s official website show.

There will be 141 exhibitors at this year’s exhibition, the Middle East’s flagship real estate expo, compared to 954 last year when the emirate’s property boom had reached its peak, the figures show.

There has been an 83 percent fall in exhibitors from the UAE and an 88 percent drop international exhibitors, according to the figures.