Bay Tek’s Adrian Drewitz was full of praise for the DEAL show, held in Dubai earlier this month.

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Speaking to InterGame at the event, Drewitz, who was presenting his company’s products on the Amusement Services International booth, said he’d met with customers from as far away as Mexico and Australia at the Middle East show.

“It is truly an international show,” he said, attributing this to both the buoyancy of the region’s amusement market and that fact that Dubai is a “fun destination.”

The Euro Attractions Show, which will be held in Amsterdam, Netherlands, later in the year, is growing in importance for the coin-op industry, Drewitz said, but it remains “heavily park-orientated.”

From a coin-op amusement and ticket redemption perspective, he explained, DEAL is now “number two to IAAPA.”

“The Middle East market is always growing and diversifying and operators here are leading the way in many areas,” he said.

Drewitz also welcomed the formation of MENALAC, the Middle East and North Africa Leisure and Attraction Council. Setting standards within the industry are important, he said, describing the work undertaken by ASI’s Prakash Vivekanand to promote the new organisation as “very noble.”