Dubai City March 8th, 2009
The Dubai Municipality is usually referred to as Dubai City in order to distinguish it from Dubai the emirate. Dubai has become the jewel of the United Arab Emirates and a center of business, tourism, and entertainment for the entire Middle East.
In recent years the city has become a desert paradise for business and leisure travelers. The government has worked with developers to attract business and tourists. The city is full of modern high rise offices, entertainment venues, and climate-controlled shopping malls and designer boutiques. The Dubai UAE luxury hotels offer every modern convenience and technology and many of the top chefs in the world have opened restaurants in the city, bringing global cuisines to this former trading post.
While Dubai is full of architectural and historic landmarks, it is the beaches and coastal resorts that attract the most visitors. In order to increase the available shoreline, Dubai has built several artificial islands that are home to even more resorts, shops, theaters, golf courses, and even a water park and an indoor ski slope.
Sports have become big business in Dubai. Golf, cricket, tennis, rugby, and horse racing are all popular in Dubai. International tournaments and competitions are held in venues around the city. The Dubai Sports City is expected to open in 2010 and house 50 million square feet of competition space as well as sports academies.
Where else can you go windsurfing or scuba diving one day and dune bashing the next? Haggle with a merchant at a souk in the morning and leisurely stroll through a huge shopping mall in the afternoon? Take a camel ride and then have dinner in a world class restaurant? Dubai city offers a wide range of experiences to visitors from all over the world.
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