Articles tagged “dubai”

The project's success will likely hinge on whether the developers lean more towards family fun or instead take a more reverent and calm approach to the subject. Dubai could certainly use a quiet garden more than another crazy building or ride.

Considering the changes in the region over the past 18 months, this year's survey results are a positive sign.

Hotel and restaurants activity grew 17 percent in 2012 to beat out manufacturing and retail as the most important industries contributing to Dubai’s economic rebound.

Dubai has laid out plans for hotels, malls, and Ferris wheels with the hope of attracting big name investors, but many are still wary of a collapse suggesting several of its plans to make headlines this year will quietly vanish over time.

The world's biggest mall inside the world's biggest mall: Dubai. The scale can only go bigger.

Rival execs mocked Starwood's decision to relocate, but the brand's leaders are definitely learning more on site than they are mulling over spreadsheets in a corporate campus.

Many souvenirs bought by tourists are not produced in the country they’re meant to represent, but Dubai is taking steps to reclaim the economic boost and control the quality of products misleadingly passed off as traditional Emerati goods.

Jumeirah appears to be intent to just keep building bigger hotels. But its ambitions are so focused on the flashy that it's difficult to see a road to long-term success.

Oh good. Because non-gold plated iPads are for the poors.

Viceroy emerged from the boutique hotel boom of the early 2000s to become a serious high-end threat to the legacy hotel operators.