Many hotels of Dubai are worthy a separate mention and a separate “excursion” look.
Near “The Arabian tower” – the whole complex “Djumeyra Beach”, country houses “Bate Al Bakhr” that “the house ashore means”. There are modern skyscrapers of “Emirates Towers” –
“Towers of the Emirates”. Those who prefer traveling to interiors of fairy tales “1001 nights”, can recommend Royal Mirage hotel – five-stars. “Mirage” is constructed as the real Arab palace. There are palm trees, fountains, magnificent rooms and almost a theatrical dress of the service personnel. There are also underwater sea restaurants, rooms with bathroom equipment from pure gold, free hire of magnificent yachts – this is possible to find in the magnificent hotels owning excellent beaches and groves of date palm trees.
Recreation in the Emirates is opportunity to visit the country where everything changes every day and every year. In the United Arab Emirates tourists are waited by extremely highly topical informative excursion program. For families with children it is worth recommending a
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trip to children's thematic park KidZania, to the improbable center of entertainments “Ferrari World”, to aquaparks of Aquaventure Atlantis, The Palm, Wild Wadi, Wonder Land, Ice Land, Dream Land.
For thrill-seekers will be an unforgettable skiing in forty-degree heat in the ski resort Ski Dubai, excursion to a desert Safari and fishing on a yacht in the Sultanate of Oman. The percentage of demand for excursions distributed in the following manner. 28% of demand falls to visit 6 Emirates in one day, 18 % on «Safari», on 17% at Abu Dhabi and Dubai city tour, 15% on «al-ain», and 5% on other tours. The number of tourists are visiting Arab AQUAPARKS. The most known and modern aquapark is WILD WADI, which is near to the well-known hotel “Jumeira Beach”. It is one of the best aquaparks of the world, which attractions have not analogs in the world.
In 2013 student of SFEDU Safronova Ekaterina trained in the UAE in the tour company Skyline Tourism and Cargo. She had an opportunity to independently determine, the most popular tourist objects UAE included in the excursion routes, having analyzed the demand for certain trips.
The most popular excursion is «Safari». The excursion lasts 7 hours. The excursion starts with an exciting jeeps skiing across the sand dunes, close acquaintance with camel farm in the Sands. It is planned to stop in a Bedouin camp to be with the desert face to face (and the camera). Far away from the urban bustle, you can ride by camel; visitors can enjoy the Arabian barbecue and an exotic belly dancing, listen to the fascinating rhythms of Oriental music.
On the second place on demand there was an excursion of “6 Emirates”. This excursion gives the chance to see 6 emirates in one day, which are part of the United Arab Emirates.
The route passes along the Piracy coast as British called the coast of the Persian Gulf in the 18th century. Tourists see watchtowers and the lonely villages which have reached up to now, they can touch (learn) the history of The Northeast part of Arabia. Besides, tourists see all natural zones of the Emirates: saline soils, deserts, mountains and even savanna. The program includes a short visit of the neighboring state of Oman, part of the Musandamsky peninsula where resolved while entrance without visas. On a course of travel it is possible to stay in a hotel on the bank of the Indian Ocean where it will be possible to have dinner, and to swim in waters of the Gulf of Oman before going to the traditional market in mountains. The route across the Northern Emirates closes a ring of a big travel.
The third route on attendance is a visit to the capital- Abu Dhabi. Abu Dhabi's history is a surprising tale of oil “Cinderella”, or about how the remote fishing village in extremely short time turned into “Middle Eastern Manhattan”, and about wisdom of his governor. Also it is about an embodiment of his improbable plans. Pride of the sheikh Zaid – the mosque is called in his honor. It is capable to contain up to 40 000 Muslims for a prayer. But the sizes are not the main thing, and unique architecture which puts this mosque in one row with the greatest works of mankind.
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Tourists can see the multikilometer embankment of the capital with its well-known fountains, the area of symbols of the Arab world during an excursion; they will walk on silent avenues in the White fort, the former palace of the governor of Abu Dhabi, and compare it to modern palaces of emirs. Everybody has able to visit one more unique construction – the Palace of the Emirates. So the hotel which is often called seven-stars puts in one row with the well-known Burj Al Arab (Sail). Also in the program, there is a trip to the neighboring islands of the capital.
Conclusion
The studied material allows drawing a current state and prospects of development of the tourist industry in the United Arab Emirates.
The UAE does not have beneficial natural resources for tourism development. However, sophisticated and targeted investment and marketing strategy has enabled the country with high living standards to become a center of international tourism.
The United Arab Emirates – the youngest and the most favorable country from the countries of the Middle East for development of the international tourism. The United Arab Emirates is the popular direction of outbound tourism, including among the Russian tourists.
The United Arab Emirates is the center of beaches, business, shops and other types of tourism which promotes high level of service. The country consists of seven emirates, but the majority of tourists prefer having a rest only in three of them: Dubai, Abu-Dhabi and Shardzha. The United Arab Emirates have widely developed hotel chains, both of own hotels, and entering the international hotel chains.
The modern hotel industry of the United Arab Emirates differs comfort, a big variety of a choice and existence of unique projects.
The international expert organization Business Monitor International carried out the careful analysis of achievements and tendencies of tourist sector of the United Arab Emirates and made the positive forecast of its development for 2013–2017 years.
2012 was a successful for tourism sector in the United Arab Emirates, the number of the arrived tourists were about 11 million. The vast majority of them (8 million) stayed in Dubai, in Abu-Dhabi lived 2 million, and the remained 1 million guests chose five other emirates for accommodation. The United Arab Emirates showed good results as in a segment usual, as business tourism, well developed tourist infrastructure and a stable political situation that promotes increasing of its appeal as the tourist direction.
Based on data of the first half of 2013, BMI keeps the forecast of 10 percentage gains of a tourist stream in 2013, and 33,8% of a gain for 2013-2017, expecting that the number of tourists will make about 16 million by the end of the expected period. The hotel sector will grow the same rates.
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FIGURE 1
United Arab Emirates: Direct Contribution of Travel & Tourism to GDP
Source:The Economic Impact of Travel & Tourism 2013, UAE, 2013
FIGURE 2
United Arab Emirates: Direct Contribution of Travel & Tourism to Employment
Source: The Economic Impact of Travel & Tourism 2013, UAE, 2013
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Constant 2012 AEDbn % of whole economy GDP
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FIGURE 3
United Arab Emirates: Visitor Exports and International Tourist Arrivals
Source: The Economic Impact of Travel & Tourism 2013, UAE, 2013
FIGURE 4-5
Travel & Tourism's Contribution to GDP (Business vs Leisure, Domestic vs Foreign, 2012;
Breakdown of Travel & Tourism's Total Contribution to GDP, 2012
Constant 2012 AEDbn Foreign visitor exports as % of total exports
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Source:The Economic Impact of Travel & Tourism 2013, UAE, 2013
Leisure spending
Business spending
Foreign visitor spending
Domestic spending
Direct
Induced
Indirect
% 22.8
% 12.8
1.8%
% 77.3
% 22.7
% 46.4
% 16.3 77.6%
% 22.4
% 37.4
(c) Government collective Indirect is the sum of:
a
( ) Supply chain b))
( Investment
United Arab Emirates
Travel & Tourism's Contribution to GDP:
Business vs Leisure, 2012
United Arab Emirates
Domestic vs Foreign, 2012
Travel & Tourism's Contribution to GDP:
c b
a United Arab Emirates
Breakdown of Travel & Tourism's Total Contribution to GDP, 2012
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