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| NFTC Managing Director at Dubai |
Dubai:
“ Dubai festival has become one of the
most important event of this part of the World. Thousands of visitors and
tourist make it a point to be present at this month to see the real fun and
fair of the city” observed Sandeep Marwah Managing Director of NFTC- National
Federation of Tourism And Transport Cooperatives of India Limited during his
visit to Dubai festival as special invitee.
Tourism
in Dubai, the largest city of the United Arab Emirates, is an important part of
the Dubai government's strategy to maintain the flow of foreign cash into the
emirate. Dubai's lure for tourists is based mainly on shopping, but also on its
possession of other ancient and modern attractions.
Dubai attracted 13.2 millions visitors in 2014, majority of which come from neighboring Arab countries. Visitors from all parts of the world are also common which includes Arabs 3,685,836, Europe 2,624,211, Asia 2,165,824, Americas 683,599 and Africa 564,846.
Tourism is crucial to Dubai's economy, which had a gross domestic product of around $90 billion last year; it supports the emirate's large retail industry as well as its hospitality sector.
Occupancy at Dubai's 599 hotels, which have 80,500 rooms combined, was 78 percent in 2012 as the number of visitors rose 9.3 percent from a year ago to 10.16 million, according to data from the Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing.
