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Articles tagged “dubai”

Hotels

Dubai’s hotel and tourism industry fuels the emirates’ fastest expansion in five years

Investors already bullish on real estate growth in Dubai are jumping to invest, especially in projects like the newly announced luxury hotels headed by Emaar, the developer of the world’s tallest tower. Will things end differently this time around?

Hotels

Dubai will have its first over-water villas with Anantara project

Despite all the odds and lots of logic, the palm-shaped development in the sea has survived the economic downturn and Dubai's financial challenge and continued to be a destination for high-end resorts and real estate.

Hotels

Mid-range hotels carve out a spot in Dubai as new Novotel readies opening

Despite their practicality, mid-range hotels will always be the odd man out in a city that serves to remind the rest of the world what opulence is all about.

Tourism

Dubai OKs plan to build world’s largest Ferris wheel on a private island

Dubai needs to be a little more original and stop jacking other countries' national attractions like the Taj Mahal and London Eye. Do you, Dubai!

Airlines

Dubai and Emirates team up to launch global ad campaign this spring

This is a dream team with each one at the top of their games, and a mutually-beneficial partnership in the truest sense in that a boom for one always means a boost for the other.

Dubai and Emirates team up to launch global ad campaign this spring

Business Travel

Starwood will move its headquarters to Dubai for a month in March

Starwood's globalization efforts mean it is taking a progress outlook on the world, and trying to listen and learn, and not just dictate.

Starwood will move its headquarters to Dubai for a month in March

Hotels

The 360-degree high-resolution photo shot from the top of the world’s tallest building

Before almost going bust in 2007, Dubai knew what it took to drive visits and interest, and bold displays like this demonstrate it hasn't lost its taste for unlimited ambition and soaring heights.

The 360-degree high-resolution photo shot from the top of the world’s tallest building

Hotels

More good news for Dubai: Hotel profits and bookings saw big jumps in 2012

It's good news all around this year for Dubai. But how does it tell the difference between bubble and natural growth -- and does it really care?

More good news for Dubai: Hotel profits and bookings saw big jumps in 2012

Airlines

Istanbul plans on building the world’s largest airport, but Dubai will beat it to the punch

Bolstered by Turkish Airlines' growth, Istanbul is looking to scrap its two inadequate airports, a problem similar to that which plagued Berlin. One can only hope Berlin’s stalled openings don’t repeat themselves here.

Istanbul plans on building the world’s largest airport, but Dubai will beat it to the punch

Tourism

Dubai’s back to its crazy ways, but it may not get out of hand this time

So is the hope, that recent history has taught it some lessons, and the long term prospects of a stable emirate in a volatile region will continue the upwards rise.

Dubai’s back to its crazy ways, but it may not get out of hand this time