Eyad Ali Abdul Rahman (Dubai Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing’s executive director for media relations division) said : “In the first six months of this year, Dubai played host to 3.4m tourists”, and for the last year : “Our hotels and apartments received 6.5m guests last year, generating revenues of more than $3.5 billion ”
“We plan to achieve economic growth of 11 per cent a year by 2015 and to triple Dubai’s gross domestic product to $112bn.
Tourism is key to that growth and to our expectations” - Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum (president of the Dubai Department of Civil Aviation and chairman and chief executive of Emirates Airline and Group)
Dubai will have 354 hotels and 134 hotel (serviced) apartments by 2010.
Sheikh Ahmed said: “Tourism accounts for more than 30 per cent of Dubai’s GDP. I feel the emirate would certainly be able to meet its target of 15m tourists by 2010. That is why we are pushing to build so many hotels. Travel and tourism has grown and developed in recent years and is responsible for more than 10 per cent of global GDP.”
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