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TRAVEL, DUBAI, THE ELITE’S OASIS STAR APPEAL IN DUBAI Celebrity spotting has become one of the new trends in Dubai's social life, then so is the emerging competition among the hotel owners for making the best out of this pulsating market. This means exclusively targeting the business travelers and the multimillionaires from across the globe. Celebrities reveal in Dubai are: Brad Pitt, Angelina Joile, Tiger Woods, Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes, David Beckman, tons more and this includes Bill Gates.
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The Power Playbook
by Derrick L. Thompson
Dubai: The New Frontier
Dubai is one of the seven emirates and most populous city of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It is located along the southern coast of the Persian Gulf on the Arabian Peninsula. To distinguish it from the emirate, Dubai is sometimes called "Dubai city." The emirate's prmary revenues are from trade, real estate and financial services. Ironically, revenues from petroleum and natural gas contribute to less than 6% (2007) of Dubai's US$54 billion economy. Real estate and construction, on the other hand, contributed 22.6% to the economy in 2005, before the current large-scale construction boom. In recent years, Dubai has attracted worldwide attention through innovative real estate projects and sporting events. Dubai's real gross domestic product (GDP), which surged to a record Dh198 billion or about $54 billion in 2007, is predicted to sustain an average growth rate of 11 per cent for the next eight years. The main impetus of this unprecedented growth will be the non-oil sector. According to Hisham Abdullah Al Shirawi, Second Vice-Chairman, Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the key sectors fuelling the growth include tourism, retail, infrastructure, knowledge industry, transportation, logistics, manufacturing, professional and government services. Translitered from Arabic Dubaiy, Dubai is principally, named after Dubai Creek, which runs northeast-southwest through the city. The eastern section of the city forms the locality of Deira and is flanked by the emirate of Sharjah in the east and the town of Al Aweer in the south. The Dubai International Airport is located south of Deira, while the Palm Deira is located north of Deira in the Persian Gulf. Much of Dubai's real estate boom is concentrated to the west of the Dubai Creek, on the Jumeirah coastal belt. Port Rashid, Jebel Ali, Burj Al Arab, the Palm Jumeirah, and theme based free zone clusters like Business Bay are all located in this section. Dubai's strategic location as the crossroads between East and West has crowned it the leading hub between Europe and the Far East. The Jebel Ali port in Dubai, constructed in the 1970s, has the largest man-made harbor in the world and was ranked eighth worldwide for the volume of its container traffic. Dubai is also a burgeoning hub for service industries such as IT and finance, with the establishment of industry-specific free zones throughout the city. Dubai Internet City, combined with Dubai Media City as part of TECOM (Dubai Technology, Electronic Commerce and Media Free Zone Authority) is one such enclave whose members include IT firms such as EMC Corporation, Oracle Corporation, Microsoft, IBM, and media giants MBC, CNN, BBC, Reuters and AP.
Dubai's strategic location as the crossroads between East and West has crowned it the leading hub between Europe and the Far East. The Jebel Ali port in Dubai, constructed in the 1970s, has the largest man-made harbor in the world and was ranked eighth worldwide for the volume of its container traffic. Dubai is also a burgeoning hub for service industries such as IT and finance, with the establishment of industry-specific free zones throughout the city. Dubai Internet City, combined with Dubai Media City as part of TECOM (Dubai Technology, Electronic Commerce and Media Free Zone Authority) is one such enclave whose members include IT firms such as EMC Corporation, Oracle Corporation, Microsoft, IBM, and media giants MBC, CNN, BBC, Reuters and AP. According to the 2006 census conducted by the Statistics Center of Dubai, the population of the emirate was 1,422,000; comprised of 1,073,000 males and 349,000 females. About 85% of the emigrant population (and 71% of the emirate's total population) was Asian, chiefly Indian (51%), Pakistani (15%), Bangladeshi (10%), and others (10%). About 3% of the total population of Dubai is categorized as "Western." Although Arabic is the official language of Dubai, Hindi, Malayalam, Urdu, Persian, Tagalog, Bengali and other languages are spoken in Dubai. English is the lingua franca or “vehicular language” that is widely spoken. Since 1833, Dubai has been ruled by the Al Maktoum dynasty. The current ruler, Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, is also the Prime Minister and Vice President of the UAE. Mr. Al Maktoums ability to help catapult Dubai to the apex of a new global frontier, qualifies him as a power player that is truly moving and shaping the world. Derrick L. Thompson is an author and cultural critic. His current book is entitled “The Influenza of Hip-Hop: Is There A Cure For Its Counter-Culture?” www.outskirtspress.com/theinfluenzaofhiphop
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