Travel to Dubai
September 8, 2010 by John38
Many people mistake travel to Dubai for travel to an arid place in one of the farthest corners of the globe. However, travel to Dubai means visiting a land where engineers have mastered the impossible. You will find manmade islands shaped like the world, ski slopes and championship golf courses all in the middle of a massive arid desert.
When you visit Dubai you will be hard pressed to think of it as the small desert town home to Bedouin tribes just under a century ago. Although despite the massive engineering accomplishments in Dubai, it is still behind in some aspects. For instance, Dubai has no running water, no paved roads and the camel still remains the main mode of transportation.
However, throughout the years Dubai has built huge skyscrapers and office blocks. Major projects have been built throughout the city that draws in many tourists throughout the year. There is the Burj Arab which is the world’s tallest tower. Then there is the Three Palms and the World which is a string of offshore manmade islands. Finally there is Dubai Land which is a larger project that will bring 45 major projects into one large leisure center in the middle of the desert. You will see all of this and even more if you purchase a luxury travel package to Dubai.
The biggest draw for tourists is the idyllic climate that the city experiences nearly year round. You will often find sunshine nearly every day of the year with only five days average for rainfall every year. Just be prepared if you are traveling in the summer to face extreme heat.
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Once seemingly unstoppable, Dubai was a luxury oasis boasting indoor ski slopes, the world's tallest tower, and manmade islands. It transformed itself into a regional financial hub; a place for tourists and foreign workers. However, Dubai's debt problems have tarnishing a place built on borrowed money, and their problem is threatening to spill into other Gulf Arab nations. Events like this one brings back all the bad memories from the global financial crisis, in which the market is very sensitive to any bad news. People worry that there will be a contagion effect from Dubai, because announcements like these impact everybody in the region. The impact of this announcement will be that everyone in the area will be more negatively pereived, and investors will be more cautious about gambling with the welathy Gulf countries, who have oil wealth. In a report by the Huffington Post, Dubai World's announcement on Friday that it needed at least a six-month delay in paying back its debt sent shock waves around the world. Asian markets tumbled for the second consecutive day, and oil prices dived to $74 per barrel. Even the U.S. was affected, with the Dow Jones industrials losing more than 150 points. It seems that the world endures the good and bad times together, due to the world getting more interconnected.
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