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Plans to establish a new tourism industry in the UAE in the late eighties and early nineties of the last century exceeded all expectations. For example, Tourism in Dubai means a lot now, where its income exceeded from tourism more than of its earnings from oil. Also, Abu Dhabi began to invest and develop the tourism industry; as it has just announced a number of ambitious projects in this area, and it is noted that all the other emirates consider tourism as an important element in the process of its future development. the State of Emirates enjoys the existence of a Gulf with a warm water, rich marine life, and sandy beaches extended over long distances and suitable for the practice of water sports, in addition that the weather is good most of the year, where cooling projects had been set up to mitigate the negative effects of high temperature. UAE also has a different types of markets, whether it belong for the inhabitants of the Middle East, Europe or West Asia, as well as to the existence of airports, high-level service ports, and the rich and diverse cultural and natural heritage of the UAE, in addition to that .. Most of its citizens have a great deal of education, and enjoy the spirit of love, generosity and hospitality. The UAE has become a melting pot of different cultures; where foreigners feel comfortable and secure within the state, and can say: The UAE nationals welcome visitors; because of their nature and heritage, and this making the growth in tourism in the UAE as a surprise to analysts and commentators, where the state occupies a leadership position in the region in the development of the best tourist facilities and visitors attraction . The State has provided 11,922 new hotel rooms between 2005, 2008, as a good planning provided an appropriate environment for tourism in the UAE; It is not just to build hotel rooms, but extended to find plenty of attractions and the establishment of infrastructure and ensure the protection and respect for each element would contribute to attracting visitors. Most of the UAE has set up bodies for tourism development of its own where these bodies have evolved in the past years in terms of size and capabilities, and worked to promote tourism locally and promotion of the State abroad.
We can say: The UAE occupies an eminent and distinct position on the world tourism map; where the tourism sector in the State developed qualitatively in the past few years as a result of its distinguish and possess the characteristics and highly competitive level and quality to become a key contributor to the sources of income and is no less important than other economic sectors in components of the GDP of the state.
As a result of qualitative development achieved in providing an unique tourist environment; UAE topped the list of countries of the Middle East and North Africa, worldly ranked the eighteenth position on the tourism level, has also taken first place in the world in terms of the effectiveness of campaigns to promote itself as a worldwide tourist destination, and deserved the fourth rank among the indicator states at the level of government interest in the tourism sector, as well as the report of World Economic Forum (Davos) confirms the UAE occupation of the eighth level in survey of more than 124 countries. the reports also confirmed in this regard that the UAE has a great awareness more than others in the tourism industry at both the official and popular levels, so it worldly ranks third at this level and eighth globally in terms of strong infrastructure that support tourism, particularly in terms of transport and communications Added to this is that the UAE enjoy the security and safety factors, making it universally distinguished in this regard. this success is due of many factors the most important of it is the government’s keenness to plan for the economic development and diversification of sources of national income through competitive to achieve the highest rates in many public sectors, including the tourism sector, in addition to the main ingredient and idealism of the UAE, where it is stable, and boasts distinguished geographical location as a crossroad between East and West, besides the stability of the weather more than six months of the year, in addition to organizing a successful shopping festivals, and for the fact that the UAE state that believes in providing the best services; it has built a lot of airports, ports, road networks, communications, transport links and developed shopping centers that match global markets, besides the other premium services
The UAE has a clean sandy beaches stretching for a distance of 700 km, and provides excellent services in hundreds of luxury hotels, add to that is the existence of historical tourist monuments and heritage centers, museums, and the proliferation of golf clubs and polo and popular sports racing such as diving, fishing, and world horse races, camels, ancient and modern boats and athletes ski on water and sand, flight demos and many other developed aspects of tourist attractions .
In the context of strengthening the role of tourism in the economic structure, the Council of Ministers approved in March, 2007 the establishment of a National Council for Tourism and Monuments in the UAE.
According to studies conducted by the World Council of Travel and Tourism in Dubai, about 125 billion dirham in 2007, this revenue is expected to increase to reach 196 billion dirham by 2017, also happened what was expected by some studies of the arrival of the contribution of the tourism economy, shopping and travel in the gross domestic product of the State during the year in 2007 to about 74.3 billion dirham, and the arrival of these proceeds to increase by about 12.3% of AED 109.3 billion by the year 2017.
The data also indicate that the tourism sector has grown during the year in 2006 by 22% compared with 2004, while further study of the World Council of Travel and Tourism expected high income of the tourism sector in the UAE of about 26 billion dirham in 2006 to about 96.5 billion dollars in 2016.
UAE has succeeded during the year of 2006 to attract 6.441 million Arab and foreign tourists, with an increase of about 282 thousand tourists in 2005 where the number of tourists reached 6.16 million tourists.
United Arab Emirates and tourism investment:
many specialized studies suggest that the UAE ranked first in terms of volume of investments and tourism projects that are being implemented until the year 2008 in the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council estimated the volume of investments in tourism in the UAE about 858 billion dirham, which constitutes about 85% of the total investments in tourism in Gulf countries, amounting to one trillion dirham, while other studies suggest the preside of the UAE and the Arabian Gulf countries the area of land held by the projects, amounting to 558 million square meters, which is considered the largest proportion where it is about 75% of the areas allocated to tourism projects in Gulf countries.
At a time when tourism revenues witnessed a dramatic increase over the past years, the World Council of Tourism and Travel expects that the tourism sector in the UAE will achieve a revenue about 46.5 billion dollars in 2016; a result of the qualitative leap in the sector of tourism and the progressive development of the UAE. This qualitative development in the tourism sector in UAE has led to the increase of the hotels number of about 160 hotels during the year in 2006 and hit 450 hotels in all emirates, compared with 29 hotels in 2005.
As well as the apartments are available in various parts of the State at the time where the rate of occupancy in state hotels was around 97% in 2006. at the same time, tourism bodies in the State declared of the existence of ambitious plans for expansion in the tourism sector by providing the highest level of services and hotels; bringing the number of rooms to 90 thousand hotel rooms in the year 2010, of which 17 thousand rooms in Abu Dhabi and 165 thousand rooms in Dubai and the rest in the Northern Emirates.
UAE airports:
The UAE has succeeded in the development of airports; which attracted about 38 million passengers through these airports during the year of 2006, while expected that number of passengers through the airport to reach to about 240 million passengers per year in 2015, prompting local authorities to allocate 80 million dirham to expand and develop the State airport in terms of processing infrastructure of air facilities and to develop national carriers and contractual agreement on more diverse air fleets.
Exhibitions in the UAE and international conferences:
UAE is a center for organizing and holding conferences and international business meetings and exhibitions. This activity is one of the pillars of tourism and trade expansion and along with the existence of many luxury hotels and large exhibitions halls; the UAE has become an important gateway for tourism in the Middle East and Asia. the period between 2003 — in 2006 have seen many international conferences, such as: meetings of the Gulf Cooperation Council and the World Bank and International Monetary Fund and the World Conference of the International Society for ads; therefore .. Dubai has become famous among the wide world-renowned centers such as Miami, Bucharest and Sydney. As for exhibitions, UAE, since 2000, has intensified its efforts in organizing exhibitions, and became the venue of choice for fairs companies and specialized international companies to promote.
It also hosts yearly hundreds of exhibits, including the international specialized exhibitions in the sectors of petroleum, aviation, technology, real estate and other in this regard.
Studies indicate that exhibitions held in the UAE formed a cornerstone to the development of the national economy of about 19 billion dirham, over the previous ten years, add to the gains of hotels, aviation and cash transfers as well as the profit margin of conferences.
Tourism in Abu Dhabi
In the context of strengthening the role of tourism in the composition of the economy of the capital, Abu Dhabi; Law No. 13 issued in June 2006 on the control of tourist facilities in Abu Dhabi emirate; which provides for the inadmissibility of any natural or legal person to engage in any tourist activity only after obtaining necessary license from the Abu Dhabi board for tourism, which plays an important role in the promotion of the emirate tourism position, where the Board referred to the development and expansion of tourism infrastructure and major projects being worked on and the increase in the number of tourism products which will be launched in the next phase.
The Board emphasized that the main axes adopted plans and strategies is to promote a good image of high-level in various areas of tourism, such as number of hotels and services to businessmen and care of tourists. The report of the Oxford Business Group estimated that the tourism sector would take up 40.4 billion dirham, the equivalent of $ 11 billion over the past 2005-2010 m, stressing the importance of the developmental role to be played by this sector in the strategy of diversity in the sources of national income in the coming years.
In the field of hospitality, the report indicated that the occupancy rates in hotels increased by 75%, and that there are prospects for a major tourist growth especially after the founding of Abu Dhabi Board for tourism, which seeks to attract 30 million tourists to the Abu Dhabi and growth rate will double the of 2% to 40% by the year 2015 with confirmation of the Board to inject more than $ 11 billion to promote new hotels and several tourist projects, such as Jebel Dhanna Resort, Emirates Palace in addition to the Exhibition Center and many projects which are being implemented and aim at supporting the tourism sector. Indications suggest that the total investment of multiple tourism projects in Abu Dhabi currently amounts to 305 billion dirham. The UAE government and Abu Dhabi Tourism Board, in particular, are also cooperating, with the French government to sign a bilateral cooperative agreement for 33 years, which is allocated to more than 4.8 billion dirham for a museum on Saadiyat Island.
On other hand, Abu Dhabi Government launched in April 2007, the Desert Islands innovative and unique project, which is expected to attract more than 250 thousand visitors annually, this number, may exceed one million visitors by 2017. There are more than 200 islands, primarily Saadiyat Island, sponsored by Abu Dhabi Tourism Board to invest in them, and make them tourist islands of the first degree.
UAE aviation:
Etihad Aviation Company also occupies an important central location in this rapid expansion witnessed by the sector, after having provided services to 40 destinations in the world.
Tourism Development and Investment Corporation of Abu Dhabi Tourism Board (World Leighton) also awarded; in mid-September 2007 amounted to 2.1 billion dirham, to build Saadiyat road with length of 6.5Km. This road connects the city with the area of Shahama, and passes across the island to Saadiyat bridge, which was built to connect all these parts with Mina Zayed area.
With regard to tourism in Dubai, the emirate is aiming to launch several strategic projects aimed at the growth of tourist activity and increase the contribution of gross domestic product within the strategy of Dubai in 2007-2015 AD.
Currently, Dubai is witnessing the implementation of major projects for the development of the aviation sector and the establishment of adequate facilities to be accomplished until 2012 at a cost of 300 billion dirham, as well as the establishment of economic infrastructures at a cost of 800 billion dirham, and Dubai Board of Tourism and Commerce Marketing declared the number of hotel guests in Dubai arrived in 2006 to 6.3 million inmates, up 22.8% from the year 1996.
The value of hotel revenues in the Emirate of Dubai in the year 2006 about 10.835 billion dirham, including 9.7 billion dirham.
Dubai also organized in early May 2007 the fourteenth session of the Arabian Travel Market in the presence of 2600participants from 60 countries; where national identity has played an important role in this event in enhancing the image of the UAE in terms of tourism and economy.
Tourism in the Northern Emirates:
The tourism sector plays a prominent role in supporting the gross domestic product in the rest of the state; where the tourism sector in the Emirate of Sharjah witnessed significant prosperity in terms of tourist influx to Sharjah, which amounted to 1.3 million tourists in 2006, have also been working the construction of more hotel rooms, where hotel occupancy achieved a leap during 2006 to reach an average of more than 82% and 90% in 2007. airlines transatlantic flights from Dubai International Airport transfer more than 8 million passengers a year as the emirate of Ras Al Khaimah plans to strengthen its position as a tourism site through the establishment of 50 hotels during the next three years up to thousands of rooms, while the Emirate of Fujairah implementing tourism mega-projects in partnership with a number of specialized international companies.
Sources:
1) United Arab Emirates – 2008 – Trident Press Ltd – Abu Dhabi; – United Arab Emirates in 2008.
2) United Arab Emirates – a snapshot – 2008 – Abu Dhabi – Trident Press – 2006 – United Arab Emirates.
3) United Arab Emirates – a snapshot – in 2006 – Abu Dhabi; – Trident Press – United Arab Emirates.

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