Smart Yachting Days

The « GCC Smart Yachting Days » and the « Monaco Smart Yacht Rendezvous »
are evolving and are now merged into a single event, the « World Yachting Summit »

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GCC Smart Yachting Days: 28‑29 February 2024

The conferences and workshops will provide a platform for experts to exchange ideas and best practices, with a focus on sustainable practices, innovative technologies, and emerging trends. We aim to promote a more responsible and eco-friendly approach to yachting and marina operations, and to pave the way for a more sustainable future for the industry.

Objectives

The main goal of the GCC Smart Yachting Days was to encourage the exchanges and networking between all the players of the entire yachting ecosystem through the presentation of innovative and sustainable solutions to be adopted with the intent to lower our industry’s environmental impact.

Dubai hosted a networking & innovation rendezvous to shape the future of marinas & yachting, creating destinations of choice, living places, a whole ecosystem while putting in place actions to lower the impact on the environment and support innovation, through Blue Economy investments, Smart Marinas and Smart People.

The Focus was on two aspects of the maritime industry key factors in the nautical tourism: the Yachting and the Marina ecosystem.

”Reinventing yachting and marina development

Conferences, Workshops & Networking event

The conferences and workshops provided a platform for experts to exchange ideas and best practices, with a focus on sustainable practices, innovative technologies, and emerging trends. We aimed to promote a more responsible and eco-friendly approach to yachting and marina operations, and to pave the way for a more sustainable future for the industry.

GCC Countries

GCC countries aimed to become a global sustainability hub with key objectives: fostering a competitive knowledge economy, promoting social development, ensuring environmental sustainability, advancing clean energy, and encouraging a green lifestyle. A major goal was achieving carbon neutrality by 2050.

With rapid economic growth, increased purchasing power, access to cutting-edge technologies, and a focus on environmental awareness, GCC countries aimed to emerge in the global yachting industry. They were committing pushing boundaries with its pioneering mixed-use developments. A significant marinas projects were underway and at that time the marinas were built on one side and the yachts on the other: they had to be treated like a resort with an infrastructure including a significant eco-friendly component. For this to happen, a real “collective thought” was needed.