DUBAI - Tourism Vital for Dubai

koreatimes.co.kr, 3-12-2007

Tourism is already a crucial part of Dubai's economy, and is becoming of increasing importance of all of the other emirates, and is projected to rise over the next decade at well above the global growth rate.
The industry already provides nearly 12 percent of total employment in the country, or nearly 300,000 people, and jobs in this sector are expected to increase to over 375,000 by 2016.
This, in turn, has fuelled growth in the country's aviation industry, with particular success stories being the two main national airlines, Dubai-based Emirates and Abu Dhabi's Etihad, as well as the low-cost carrier Air Arabia, each of whom have added numerous new destinations to their networks during the course of 2007.

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