Tourism in Dubai

Tourism in Dubai

Introduction

Dubai is a cosmopolitan city which comprises of diverse people, culture and lifestyle. It has been considered as the hottest destinations for tourist coming from different countries and consequently, it caters assorted bag of visitors with the supreme of international and local cuisines. The primary cuisine of Dubai tradition is Arabian Food, but Lebanese, Moroccan and Iranian food also acquire significant portion in the cuisine of Dubai Tradition. This city is an ideal mixture of old age tradition of Dubai and modern times. The foreign visitors coming for the business purpose or personal purpose enjoy the ideal blend of this city. Dubai presents truly modern and relaxed life style.

The Modern History of Dubai in Brief

Within recorded history, Dubai started as a fishing village probably some time in the 18th century. It was a dependency of the sheikhdom of Abu Dhabi and its inhabitants were probably mostly Bani Yas. In 1833 a group of about 800 people of the Al Bu Falasah subsection of the Bani Yas seceded from Abu Dhabi and settled in Dubai. The leaders of the exodus, Ubaid bin Saeed and Maktoum bin Buti, remained joint leaders until the death of the former in 1836. Maktoum bin Buti ruled until he died in 1852, establishing the dynasty of the Al Maktoum rulers in Dubai. Maktoum and most of his successors usually followed a policy of good understanding with the British authorities in the Arabian Gulf (DTCM 2005).

The real history of Dubai begins in 1930 when settlement started and began momentum in growth. At that time neighboring Sharjah was the main trading centre on the Trucial Coast, and for the rest of the 19th century Dubai was simply a pearling village with a merchant community. In fact there were three distinct settlements around the Creek and one of them called Bur Dubai was an Arab fishing village on the western side. 'The Dubai Creek provided one of the few safe anchorages along the southern coast of the Arabian Gulf and served as a haven for dhows despite its hazardous entrance. It was the starting and finishing point for pearling expeditions which, until the invention of cultured pearls in the 1930s, formed the main part of the economy after the 1820 British agreement prevented ship-building. The turn of the 19th century was considered the golden age of the pearl industry. Three thousand vessels were employed in the trade, leaving harbor in May and not returning until mid-September. Fishing, too, was an important occupation. The Arabian Gulf's warm and shallow waters supported a wide variety of marine life and dhows were built on the foreshore of Dubai Creek' (DTCM 2005). Dubai had sufficiently grown to attract settlers from the third world countries namely India, Iran and Baluchistan and so on.

Discussion

Dubai is one of the popular places for tourism. Dubai established free trade zones to attract foreign investment. Dubai also has focused on transforming itself into a world class tourist center. Lavish hotels, shopping centers, sporting venues, ...