{"id":253071,"date":"2026-04-13T17:43:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T13:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=253071"},"modified":"2026-04-13T17:52:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T13:52:01","slug":"footfall-drops-at-dubai-mall-and-mall-of-the-emirates-amid-war-in-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/253071\/","title":{"rendered":"Footfall drops at Dubai Mall and Mall of the Emirates amid war in Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Amid the conflict in the Middle East, sales of European brands have declined in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, Reuters<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

Luxury brands in March reported sales drops of 30-50% at the Mall of the Emirates, one of Dubai’s largest, compared to the same month last year, according to a source with knowledge of the previously unreported figures.<\/p>\n

Footfall at the Mall of the Emirates, home to luxury boutiques spanning LVMH’s Louis Vuitton and Dior, Kering’s Gucci, Richemont’s Cartier, Chanel and Rolex ​alongside an indoor ski resort and a wellness clinic, dropped by 15% in March, according to the source.<\/p>\n

Traffic at the larger Dubai Mall, ⁠which is more popular with tourists, was down around 50%, this source and a second industry source added, indicating a potentially even larger sales drop.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amid the conflict in the Middle East, sales of European brands have declined in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, Reuters writes. Luxury brands in March reported sales drops of 30-50% at the Mall of the Emirates, one of Dubai’s largest, compared to the same month last year, according to a source with knowledge of the previously […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":253068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,98,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en","category-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253072,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253071\/revisions\/253072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}