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Dubai International Coffee & Tea Festival 2017 Opens Today

The 2017 edition of Dubai International Coffee & Tea Festival (DICTF), the Middle East's only exhibition dedicated to coffee and tea, opened up today (December 14, 2017), at the Dubai International Convention & Exhibition Centre. The program will certainly run through to Saturday, 16th December and will finish with the reward distribution on the phase of the launching Dubai International Coffee Championships.

A very impressive line-up of site visitors waited with bated breath for the opening with the scent of fresh coffee floating via the whole training course of the trade centre halls. The festival has a line-up of tasks and events that will keep the target market of site visitors engaged and included throughout the show.

The Dubai International Coffee & Tea Festival has been instrumental in bringing Specialized in the coffee and tea industry to the fore in the region. The occasion throws a limelight on the flourishing regional and global coffee and tea industry. Site visitors at the event are taking advantage of substantial networking and learning chances via involvement with industry specialists, cultivators, makers, roasters and sommeliers that are at the event for the next three days.

Dubai International Coffee Championships, the UAE National Tea Masters Cup, Brewers and Roasters Lounge, and Coffee Training specifically drew a large footfall during the very first day. Experienced baristas from worldwide are completing in the Dubai International Coffee Championships and while UAE's top tea masters at pitching their skill at the UAE's National Masters Cup.

The newly introduced contests are occurring for the very first time alongside DICTF. The champions of Dubai International Coffee Championships will obtain a possibility to take house part of the prize swimming pool of USD 25,000, the largest in the background of global barista competitions, which is set to expand year on year, while the UAE National Tea Masters Cup is being funded by 'The Tea Company' and Pure Leaf by Unilever Gulf.

Anselm Godinho, Managing Director of International Conferences and Exhibitions, DICTF's coordinator, said: "DICTF is a possibility to elevate the level of global gratitude for coffee and tea as a profession, a commodity and as a business. In addition, it supplies UAE-based baristas a global opportunity to take the center stage with their international counterparts and gain from knowledge sharing and exchange of know-how and experiences that come from massaging shoulders with some of the top specialists and the world's finest baristas. The festival does not only display a variety of services and products essential to developing an effective coffee business, yet it also highlights the trendsetters who create innovative suggestions to aid in the growth of the whole local and regional industries. With all that being stated, consumer engagement and item knowledge in this business is critical to boosting high quality. Demand Better is our key phrase in this event and it will serve to infuse High quality in the fastest sector of the hospitality industry."

DICTF is likewise holding the region's only Specialized Coffee Association-certified (SCA) training in barista skills, coffee brewing, roasting, sensory skills, and green coffee grading, among others.
Complete details of the occasion are offered at http://www.coffeeteafest.com.

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