The big Middle East amusement trade show, DEAL, is to be held from April 17 to 19, 2012. The organisers, International Expo-Consults of Dubai, UAE, confirmed the dates to InterGame this week.

Apparently there had been some difficulties in pinpointing a date which fitted with the venue and into the industry’s calendar, especially with the possible impact of Easter next year.

The show will be held, as usual, at The Arena within the Dubai World Trade Centre, which has its own station on the new Dubai metro system.

DEAL, for which InterGame is the Official International Publication, is the only significant trade show for the amusement machine industry in the Middle East region and attracts visitors from across the Arab world and many countries from northern Africa to central Europe and the Indian sub-continent.