Dubai - A great holiday destination by Mr Johnston

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Dubai - A great holiday destination
by Mr Johnston

Is it exciting or just a building site?

Contrary to some reports, Dubai is not just a building site with masses of cranes. You've probably heard this from someone that's briefly visited Dubai, but it's definitely wrong. Yes, there is an extensive building programme, which is ongoing, but local residents, UAE nationals and ex-pats alike just accept this as part of their daily lives and business.

Over the last 75 years, Dubai has transformed itself from a being a simple 'pearl-diving centre' into a powerful international trading hub with impressive worldwide links and an ever changing ethnic identity. With a huge contingent of foreign manual workers from India, Bangladesh and Pakistan and service industry employees mostly from the Philippines, Middle East, Europe and Australasia, it's not difficult to see why the changing population is increasing so rapidly.

Much of the Gulf region is experiencing extraordinary levels of growth, with the city of Dubai currently being at the fore-front. Although Dubai is intent on creating masses of future development projects for many years to come, it continues to provide the infrastructure to run in parallel. One of the newest development projects is the prestigious Tiger Woods Golf Complex - Al Ruwaya, which is due to open in September 2009. (See more about

Author's Biography:

HRC team members have a sound, collective knowledge of holiday destinations around the world. They have pooled their holiday experiences, ideas, travel facts, other resources and public knowledge, for the benefit of visitors to this website.

Posted on: September 13,2008

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