How will regulatory changes in the sector help cement Dubai’s position as a leading destination?
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Articles & Analysis | Medical tourism grows in Dubai from The Report: Dubai 2016
Dubai’s ambition to become the Middle East’s paramount provider of medical tourism has taken some significant steps forward, with the emirate easily surpassing initial targets for numbers of patients treated and revenues two years after the initiative was first announced. However, there are also significant challenges ahead for private health...
Articles & Analysis | Dubai attracts international visitors from The Report: Dubai 2016
With significant new attractions due to open in 2016, Dubai is hoping to position itself as a global player in family leisure tourism in the years to come. PwC has estimated 18m people could visit the UAE’s new theme parks by 2021, drawing comparisons with Orlando in Florida. The leisure tourism segment could play a significant role in helping...
Dubai’s Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DTCM) expects an influx of visitors by the turn of the decade, and these projections are helping to drive the construction of theme parks, hospital wings, shopping malls and several new hotels. Dubai announced total international visitor figures of 14.2m for 2015, an increase of 7.5% on 2014, and became the fourth-most-visited city in the...
The emirate of Dubai, by virtue of being less generously endowed with hydrocarbons than its regional neighbours, has worked hard over the past several decades to develop a wider, more diversified economic bedrock to power growth. As a result the emirate has several sectors whose growth is not wholly contingent on hydrocarbons revenues, and which continue to prosper in the current environment.
The fall in oil prices led to significantly reduced government revenues for Kuwait in 2015. Despite this the country’s 2016 spending remained largely in line with previous years as the government opted to draw on its considerable financial buffers to help make up for budgetary shortfalls.