ADNEC Centre Abu Dhabi Named Middle East’s Best MICE Event Venue 2026

ADNEC Centre Abu Dhabi has been named the Middle East’s Best MICE Event Venue 2026 at the World MICE Awards. The award recognises the venue’s leadership in hosting meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions, and its growing standing among the world’s leading event destinations.

The win adds to a sustained run of regional and international honours for the Centre. Earlier in 2026, it won five global titles at the Eventex Awards, including World’s Best Convention Centre, World’s Best Exhibition Venue and World’s Best Sustainable Venue, alongside World’s Best Sports Venue and World’s Best Wedding Venue.

The Centre has also been recognised with the Best Sustainability Initiative at the Middle East Events Awards. In 2025, it was named Best Venue in the world at the C&IT Awards, one of the most significant honours in the global MICE sector.

“ADNEC Centre Abu Dhabi’s recognition as the Middle East’s Best MICE Event Venue reflects its growing position as a platform that brings together industry leaders and decisionmakers to forge partnerships and generate sustainable economic impact. It also underscores ADNEC Group’s leading role and active contribution to advancing the present and future of the business and leisure tourism sector, both regionally and internationally, as part of its strategy to reinforce Abu Dhabi’s position as a leading regional hub for these vital sectors.”

Humaid Matar Al Dhaheri, Group CEO of ADNEC Group

Spanning 153,678 square metres, ADNEC Centre Abu Dhabi is the largest events centre in the Middle East and North Africa. Its flexible exhibition halls, conference and meeting spaces, and integrated hospitality and services let it host major international exhibitions, congresses, conferences and large-scale events.

The Centre plays a strategic role in attracting international events to the emirate, generating economic impact and supporting the growth of Abu Dhabi’s business tourism and MICE sectors. In 2025, ADNEC Group generated a record AED 9.2 billion in economic impact and 2.17 million hotel room nights through its business and leisure tourism activities.

Awards that follow the money

A venue award on its own is a plaque on a wall. This one matters because the numbers behind it are large, with a record AED 9.2 billion in economic impact and 2.17 million hotel room nights in 2025, and because the Centre keeps collecting the same honours from different juries.

Abu Dhabi’s pitch as a business events hub rests on venues like this one. Each award makes the next bid for a congress or exhibition easier to win, and the calendar of global events at the Centre keeps growing.