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Article: The making of Dubai's success story.
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- MEED Middle East Economic Digest
- Article date:
- April 7, 1995
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There is a fact of life in Dubai which speaks volumes about the future of the Gulf's most dynamic emirate.
Every week, planes full of visitors from across the world touch down at Dubai International Airport. Many of them have come on professional shopping missions. The $1,000 million they are reputed to spend each year gives a substantial boost to the re-export trade of the emirate. But the travellers' true significance is that they represent in a single form the commerce and tourism the leaders of Dubai are aiming to attract as the emirate prepares to face a future without oil.
The rise in visitor traffic has not happened spontaneously or by accident. ...