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What's So Special About Dubai?

Over the last two decades Dubai has become one of the hottest vacation spots and business locations on the planet. A visitor to Dubai will experience traditional Arab culture set in the heart of a vibrant ultra-modern city with futuristic new attractions springing up virtually every day.

Dubai is a place of profound contrasts. In Dubai you will find luxurious residential districts just minutes from dusty traditional villages. Rugged mountains and shifting sand dunes are only miles from beautiful sandy beaches, lush green parks and world-class golf courses. Tourists can spend their money in some of the largest and most modern shopping malls in the world, or bargain with Arabic traders in Dubai's traditional market places.

Visitors to Dubai can choose to stay in one of its many luxury hotels. Or for a more authentic Dubai experience a person can rent a beautifully furnished apartment or villa in one of Dubai's newer residential areas. Dubai apartment rentals offer the visitor more space for less money, and provide a different perspective on this unique city.

Rapid Pace of Development

The fantastic pace of development taking place in Dubai makes it one of the most ultra-modern cities in the world. The city skyline is now dominated by futuristic skyscrapers such as the Emirates Towers and Burj Al-Arab, the world's tallest hotel. The Mall of the Emirates is the largest shopping center outside of North America and features one of the world's only indoor ski slopes. And Dubai also features one of the few fully lit 18 hole golf courses in the world.

A large number of other large developments are also underway in Dubai. Some of the more significant ones are:

- Dubai Mall - projected to be the largest indoor mall in the world when completed.

- Burj Dubai - when completed in 2008 will be the tallest skyscraper in the world.

- Dubai World Central including the Dubai World Central International Airport - will be ten times larger than the current Dubai International Airport and Dubai Cargo Village combined.

- The Dubai Waterfront project - the largest waterfront development and the largest man-made project in the world when completed.

Center for Shopping Tourism

By far the most popular attraction Dubai is the shopping. The malls and market places of Dubai are stocked with an incredible array of consumer goods and draw large numbers of shopping tourists from all parts of Europe and the Middle East and even as far away as Eastern Europe, India, and North America.

Dubai's most interesting shopping is to be found in the souks, located on either side of Dubai creek that runs through the city. Two of the most popular are the Spice Souk and the Gold Souk. Bargaining in traditional middle eastern style is an important part of the shopping experience in the souks.

In recent years the traditional type of shopping has met with stiff competition from more western style stores. Fantastic shopping malls and upscale boutiques are now everywhere throughout the city and carry virtually any consumer item you can imagine: clothing, housewares, luxury items, cars, furnishings, jewellery, electronics, sporting equipment. You name it and you will probably find it in the boutiques and malls of Dubai.

The Dubai International Airport also is the home of the Duty Free complex - one of the most extensive and largest duty free shopping areas in the world. New developments such as the Dubai World Central International Airport will have even larger duty free areas to draw in even more shopping tourists.

These and many more attractions make Dubai a favorite destination of tourists and business travelers from around the world. Future developments promise to make Dubai even more important as a world class business hub and a haven for tourists in search of a unique and exciting adventure.

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For more information about Dubai villas see Dubai villas . Rick Hendershot publishes e_Marketing - an online marketing blog.

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