On the 30th of March 2012, Outdoor UAE organized its first beach festival. With the tremendous support of its main sponsors; Adventure HQ and Jebel Ali Golf Resort and Spa, the first OutdoorUAE beach festival proved to be a great success.
Further sponsors of the event included Julbo Eyewear, Al Ain Water Adventure Park and Al Yousuf Motors. A special thank you goes out to all sponsors and all the supporters of the event, not to mention those who ran activities throughout the day and contributed to the fantastic job of getting the people involved!
Why a Beach Festival?
The concept of the Beach festival first came about with an aim to bring together some of the most enjoyable, accessible and relatively inexpensive activities to one venue. With some of the top outdoor operators and retailers in the UAE as supporters and sponsors – their outdoor activities and products would be available for the public to try out, getting them involved, trying something new and meeting the people behind the names!
The main challenge the Outdoor UAE team faced in explaining the idea to people was to get them to understand it was a celebration of the Outdoors, a ‘Festival’ and not a trade show. One of Outdoor UAE’s main aims was to get people involved in all these activities and let them try as many as possible in one day. To be able to run the event, an entrance fee of 100 AED for Adults and 50 AED for kids below 10 years was charged. The entrance fee and limited tickets ensured that everyone had the chance to try the activities with no long queues. Despite the World Cup the following day at Meydan (just 30 minutes drive away), 600 visitors walked through the door and enjoyed not only a great day out at the beach but activity participated in an event that looks to have a promising future on Dubai’s yearly to do list!
With not much more to say than, ‘hope to see you there next time’ –have a look to the photos to get a feel of what the day was about:
Caption all photos – the main sponsors should get good coverage and include their logos.
All photos of the event can be found on our website and on Facebook, please tag yourself and friends and share the photos.
If you are interested in the event and would like to join us for the next beach festival we are aiming to run the event from morning until evening rather than afternoon until midnight. Sign up to our newsletter to find out more about how to get involved.
The next event will most probably be after the summer heat or on the last week before the end of May, we will be announcing it shortly so keep your ears peeled! Follow us to stay up to date.
A big thank you goes out to all the visitors and to all the sponsors and supporters and remember once you get involved – stay involved!
The OutdoorUAE Team
