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19 March 2024

Dubai Coffee & Tea Festival from Nov.12-14

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The International Coffee & Tea Festival (ICTF), which will be held from November12 to 14, 2014 at the Meydan Gallery in Dubai, will incorporate industry Specialized Training Programmes, National-level Coffee Championships and World Coffee Champions as three of its most prominent features, highlighting the skills and expertise of coffee-making in the region.

With over 4,000 coffee shops and tea houses boasting a true café culture in the UAE, cafes and baristas continue to account for a lucrative business of almost half a billion dollars annually.

As the only dedicated trade event for the coffee and tea industry in the Middle East, the International Coffee & Tea Festival annually hosts the region’s only SCAA-certified coffee training, intended to share a wealth of knowledge, experience and cutting-edge techniques with participating professionals and novices, so that they can expertly prepare and serve the best coffee to their customers and guests.

These training sessions will integrate the broader topics of Coffee Preparation, Coffee Grading as well as Coffee Roasting, catering for everyone from beginners to seasoned professionals. All workshops are conducted by instructor-certified industry professionals and administered by SCAA, to impart hands-on training experience to attendees who receive a formal qualification and certification with worldwide acceptance, upon completion.

Along with the training sessions, the International Coffee & Tea Festival will also host the yearly National-Level Coffee Championships, which include the UAE National Barista Championship and the UAE National Latte Art Championship.

Heralding the recognition of the popular Turkish-style coffee preparation and celebrating one of the oldest and traditional methods of coffee preparation, this year the ICTF will also launch the first National Cezve/Ibrik Championship which will be the first in the UAE.

Sanctioned and licensed by World Coffee Events (WCE), the Championships offer an effective platform to professional baristas to showcase their skills of brewing the perfect cup of coffee. The winner of the 6th UAE Barista Championship will receive the highest national honour for any UAE-based barista and will be sponsored to represent UAE at the 2015 World Barista Championship in Seattle, Washington, competing against 56 countries.