Articles tagged “dubai”

Dubai's ambitious goal of 20 million visitors by 2020 is still on track, thanks to its prime location at the center of emerging and exiting markets, as well as significant investments in infrastructure that make it an increasingly attractive center for business.

Dubai knows it can't rely solely upon people spending silly money, it needs to diversify the experiences available to visitors.

After three decades of fast growth, Dubai needs to shift its reputation toward a more authentic and culturally-infused destination experience, using local and visitor crowdsourced content.

While there's significant interest among U.S. associations to organize conventions in the Arabian Middle East, only one third have done so due to a young regional industry in the Gulf still learning how to engage Western convention planners.

This is the first installment for our Future Cities series, where we look at how inventive development projects, ambitious tourism goals, and smart city initiatives are paving the way for Dubai to build the city of the future.

Tomorrow's Dubai Airport will still be huge, but it's more reasonable to break it up into nodes instead of fitting those millions of people in a single structure.

Dubai isn't all about 5-star hotels anymore. Now there are 3-bedroom apartments in Palm Jumeirah for $469 per night that should be suitable for a broader range of travelers.

Dubai might not offer meetings and convention attendees the culture of Tokyo or the cuisine of New York, but its location, growing room and space inventory, and desire to bring in more events will drive its growth beyond the 2020 Expo.

Dubai's branding efforts are at a crossroads. It's built its reputation as a mega-city but needs to add the arts and culture that, in the end, differentiates all destinations.

With these awards passengers help prove larger and busier airports are capable of providing great service but smaller airports definitely have an advantage because they can often do a better job at serving less passengers more efficiently and seem to make up the majority of these awards.