LIVE BLOG: Latest pictures and video from Expo 2020 Dubai
Expo 2020 Dubai has recorded more than 700,000 visits since October 1.
From October 1 to 17, a total of 771,477 ticketed visits were recorded. Visit numbers have risen by 12 per cent in a week.
The figures include all physical ticket holders but exclude representatives, delegations, guests from international participants and Expo staff.
“Almost half of all the visitors hold a season pass,” said Sconaid McGeachin, senior vice president of communications, said at the world's fair's daily briefing.
“We've had more than 100,000 coming to the site twice and more than 35,000 coming more than three times.”
She said the world’s fair had welcomed 181 nationalities since the opening of the event.
The number of virtual visitors has reached 9.3 million since October 1, rising by 1.5 million since the week before.
“The Japanese government has encouraged people to go on virtually and do a tour of their pavilion, which is fantastic to see that they're really encouraging people in Japan who maybe aren't visiting as much at the moment to to join in with us virtually,” Ms McGeachin said.
More than 53,000 visitors flooded through the entrance gates on the first day of Expo.
As the world's fair enters its third week, numbers are expected to be boosted in the coming days by schools' mid-term break.
Expo announced last week that complimentary access will be given to people under 18, those aged 60 and over, people with disabilities, nannies, housekeepers, taxi drivers and those who work in the hospitality sector.
Watch: Expo 2020 Dubai parade dedicated to the blind and visually impaired
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In numbers: China in Dubai
The number of Chinese people living in Dubai: An estimated 200,000
Number of Chinese people in International City: Almost 50,000
Daily visitors to Dragon Mart in 2018/19: 120,000
Daily visitors to Dragon Mart in 2010: 20,000
Percentage increase in visitors in eight years: 500 per cent
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Multitasking pays off for money goals
Tackling money goals one at a time cost financial literacy expert Barbara O'Neill at least $1 million.
That's how much Ms O'Neill, a distinguished professor at Rutgers University in the US, figures she lost by starting saving for retirement only after she had created an emergency fund, bought a car with cash and purchased a home.
"I tell students that eventually, 30 years later, I hit the million-dollar mark, but I could've had $2 million," Ms O'Neill says.
Too often, financial experts say, people want to attack their money goals one at a time: "As soon as I pay off my credit card debt, then I'll start saving for a home," or, "As soon as I pay off my student loan debt, then I'll start saving for retirement"."
People do not realise how costly the words "as soon as" can be. Paying off debt is a worthy goal, but it should not come at the expense of other goals, particularly saving for retirement. The sooner money is contributed, the longer it can benefit from compounded returns. Compounded returns are when your investment gains earn their own gains, which can dramatically increase your balances over time.
"By putting off saving for the future, you are really inhibiting yourself from benefiting from that wonderful magic," says Kimberly Zimmerman Rand , an accredited financial counsellor and principal at Dragonfly Financial Solutions in Boston. "If you can start saving today ... you are going to have a lot more five years from now than if you decide to pay off debt for three years and start saving in year four."
