Dubai Tourist Capital Of The World

The emirate was not even considered as a tourist location ten years ago. In 2005 Dubai's revenue per hotel guest was the highest in the world at $175, ahead of Las Vegas despite the emirate having no gambling. In this context the result was, very naturally, extensive investments in hotels: Dubai has 383 hotels with a capacity of 35,000 rooms, by the end of 2009 a further 140 hotels will be built roughly doubling the amount of rooms. The Dubai Government’s latest investment is the $27 billion Bawadi project in the Dubailand theme park district which will add 31 hotels over the next decade. Including the largest hotel in the world: the Asia-Asia hotel (6500 rooms). Many other Government initiated projects include an Armani hotel, high-rises, of witch one is Dubai’s View the rest of this article