UAE - More arrivals despite high rates

TTGasia.com, Jun 8-14, 2007

VANCOUVER-based Universal Travel president, Mr Rafiq Chinoy, started selling Dubai 20 years ago, when it was “a fishing village” and a very hard sell indeed. Nowadays, he has a different problem. Rates had “gone through the roof”, the traffic jams were horrible and even the shopping was becoming expensive, he said.“But people are still willing to pay to see Dubai,” Mr Chinoy said.Just what people want to “see” about Dubai is, ironically, the very thing, critics are lamenting about the city – progress, or too much of it, which they said had stripped Dubai of its culture, heritage and tradition.

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