GCC Trade Show Calendar: Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Muscat

GCC Trade Show Calendar collects upcoming trade shows, exhibitions and conferences in the Gulf from the official websites of the exhibition centres. It reads ADNEC Centre Abu Dhabi in the UAE, Riyadh Front Exhibition & Conference Center (RFECC) in Saudi Arabia and the Oman Convention & Exhibition Centre (OCEC) in Muscat. Every event comes in one format, with Arabic and English names where the venue publishes both.

Use it to plan which Middle East exhibitions to visit or exhibit at. Exhibitors, event agencies, logistics firms, hotels and sales teams use one feed in place of three venue calendars.

Schedule it weekly with change-only mode on. Each run then returns only events that are new or whose dates, organiser or website changed.

تقويم المعارض التجارية والمؤتمرات في الخليج من المواقع الرسمية لمراكز المعارض: مركز أدنيك أبوظبي، وواجهة الرياض للمعارض والمؤتمرات، ومركز عُمان للمؤتمرات والمعارض. أسماء الفعاليات بالعربية والإنجليزية، وتواريخ البدء والانتهاء، والشركة المنظمة، والقطاع، والموقع الرسمي للفعالية.

GCC exhibition venues covered

Venue	City	Country	Upcoming events (22 October 2026)	Names
ADNEC Centre Abu Dhabi	Abu Dhabi	UAE	9	English and Arabic
Oman Convention & Exhibition Centre (OCEC)	Muscat	Oman	19	English, Arabic for most
Riyadh Front Exhibition & Conference Center (RFECC)	Riyadh	Saudi Arabia	3	English, Arabic when published

Counts include concerts and other public events. They change every week as venues add events.

Other venues were checked and left out. Their website terms forbid copying or commercial reuse of the content without written permission, so this Actor does not read them. This includes Dubai World Trade Centre, Expo Centre Sharjah, Qatar National Convention Centre and Exhibition World Bahrain.

Trade show data you get

Field	Meaning
eventNameEn, eventNameAr	Event name in English and Arabic, as the venue publishes it
venue, venueAr	Exhibition centre name
city, cityAr, country, countryName, countryNameAr	Location. country is AE, SA or OM
startDate, endDate	First and last day, yyyy-mm-dd
status	upcoming, ongoing or past, in local time
daysUntilStart	Days from today until the start
organiser	Organising company as the venue names it. Null when the venue names none
eventType	Venue's own label, such as Exhibition or Conference
eventKind	trade or entertainment
sector, sectorAr	Sector from the event name, such as Energy and Utilities
hall	Hall or space inside the venue, when published
officialUrl	The event's own website, when the venue links to it
venueEventUrl	Event page on the venue's website
changeType, changedFields	Change-only mode: new or changed, and which fields changed

Sample record from a real run:

{
  "id": "adnec:adipec-2026",
  "venueCode": "adnec",
  "eventNameEn": "ADIPEC 2026",
  "eventNameAr": "أديبك 2026",
  "venue": "ADNEC Centre Abu Dhabi",
  "venueAr": "مركز أدنيك أبوظبي",
  "city": "Abu Dhabi",
  "cityAr": "أبوظبي",
  "country": "AE",
  "countryName": "United Arab Emirates",
  "countryNameAr": "الإمارات العربية المتحدة",
  "startDate": "2026-11-02",
  "endDate": "2026-11-05",
  "status": "upcoming",
  "daysUntilStart": 11,
  "organiser": "dmg::events",
  "eventType": "Exhibition & Conference",
  "eventKind": "trade",
  "sector": "Energy and Utilities",
  "sectorAr": "الطاقة والمرافق",
  "hall": "Full Venue",
  "officialUrl": "https://www.adipec.com/",
  "venueEventUrl": "https://www.adnec.ae/en/eventlisting/adipec-2026",
  "changeType": null,
  "changedFields": [],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-22T09:56:00.251Z"
}

The Actor saves organiser companies only. It never saves contact people, emails or phone numbers.

Trade show calendar tutorial

1. Open the Input tab.
2. Leave Venues empty to read all three venues, or pick some.
3. Set dates if you want a window. By default you get every event that has not ended yet.
4. Pick Sectors or add Keywords, such as food, energy or معرض.
5. Click Start. A full calendar takes about one to two minutes.
6. Download the results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read them through the API.

Input example

{
  "venues": ["adnec", "ocec"],
  "sectors": ["Energy and Utilities", "Food, Agriculture and Fisheries"],
  "startsWithinDays": 90,
  "changeOnly": false,
  "maxItems": 100
}

Input fields

Field	Meaning
venues	adnec, rfecc, ocec. Empty means all
fromDate	Keep events ending on or after this date. Empty means today
toDate	Keep events starting on or before this date
startsWithinDays	Keep events starting within N days. 0 means no limit
sectors	Keep only these sectors
includeEntertainment	Also return concerts, sport, graduations and weddings. Off by default
keywords	Keep events whose name, organiser, type or sector contains a keyword
changeOnly	Return only new and changed events
stateKey	Name of the change-only memory
maxItems	Stop after this many events. 0 means no limit

Trade show change alerts

Turn on changeOnly and schedule the Actor once a week. The first run returns every event and remembers it. Later runs return an event only when it is new, or when its name, dates, organiser, type, hall or website changed. Changed events list the changed fields in changedFields. Use a different stateKey for each watch list.

Change-only mode does not report cancelled events. Venues remove them from their sites without notice.

Sectors

The sector comes from keywords in the event name, in English and Arabic. It is a guide. The organiser may use a different category. Events with no match get Other. The 17 sectors are: Energy and Utilities, Water and Environment, Healthcare and Life Sciences, Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hospitality and Tourism, Construction and Real Estate, Technology and Telecom, Defence and Security, Transport and Logistics, Manufacturing and Industry, Finance and Investment, Education and Careers, Beauty, Fashion and Jewellery, Sport and Leisure, Government and Public Sector, Arts, Culture and Media, Other.

Pricing

You pay a small start fee per run and a fee for each event saved to your dataset. Events skipped by your filters cost nothing. In change-only mode you pay only for new and changed events. See the price on the Pricing tab.

Data sources and use

The Actor reads public pages and public APIs of the three venue websites. It sends a few requests per second at most and respects robots.txt. Dates, names and links are copied as the venue publishes them. Some venue entries have errors, such as an end date a year late. Check the event's own website before you book travel or space.

Related Actor

Gulf Tenders Radar collects open government tenders from Oman, the UAE, Jordan and Lebanon. Use both to follow Gulf business opportunities.

FAQ

Does it cover Dubai exhibitions?

No. Dubai World Trade Centre and Expo Centre Sharjah publish terms that forbid commercial reuse of their content. Abu Dhabi, Riyadh and Muscat are covered.

Can I search in Arabic?

Yes. Arabic keywords match anywhere in a word, so معرض finds المعرض. Arabic names are filled for most ADNEC and OCEC events.

Why is the organiser empty for some events?

The venue did not name one. RFECC and OCEC rarely publish the organiser. ADNEC usually does.

Can an AI agent use it?

Yes. The output is flat JSON with stable IDs and ISO dates.

How far back does it go?

Set fromDate to a past date to get past events. History goes back about one year.

Support

Open an issue on the Issues tab. Tell us the venue and the event, and we will check it.