Travel Destination: Dubai

If you plan to visit Dubai, months from November to April would be the best time. The rest of the year is hot and humid. With its contradictions in life style and culture, Dubai is a glitzy, dreamlike tourist destination.

Visiting Dubai is like a dream. Within a time span of fifty years, this Arab nation has converted itself from a fishing village into a fastest growing city. Sheikh Mohammed bin Al Maktoum, the vice president and prime minister of the United Arab Emirates, is the inspirational force behind Dubai's advent as one of the most supreme forces of the world.

Dubai has a multi-cultural society with people from more than 150 nations doing business here. It is an extraordinary city which has almost everything in it. The palm island, the world Island, The Dynamic Tower, Burj Dubai and The Burj Al Arab are some of the world's biggest and marvelous construction epics. Added to this, other big projects worth a hundred million are either under construction or are in the pipeline.

"Do not wait for the future to come to you, face the future", is what Sheikh Mohammed Al Maktoum said while inaugurating The Dynamic tower. Though this statement can be subjected to arguments, Dubai is the perfect example of how a great vision can change the whole topography of a nation. The world's largest man made port was built in Dubai so as to overcome the adversities that the nation would face, once the oil wells dry out.

Dubai is one of the fastest growing travel destinations of the world. More and more people are visiting Dubai every year which has made this Arab nation one of the finest branded cities. Already attracting vast number of tourist every year with its rich economy and man power, Dubai is still considering manufacturing a number of ambitious projects to welcome tourists on a regular basis. Dubailand is one of them. This is an ambitious leisure development project expected to feature colossal theme parks, shopping malls and state-of-the-art museums and sports complexes.

The facilities at the sport complex itself are enough to make other countries go green with envy. It includes a FIFA football stadium with a seat capacity of 60,000, a Manchester United Soccer Academy, a tennis academy, a golf course and a cricket stadium with a seat capacity of 20,000.

In addition to the motor city you have the F1 track, F1 theme park and the Global Village which is a craft center that represents people from the 135 different countries that work and live in Dubai. According to various data, an estimated 3 million tourists visited Dubai in 2009. In 2010 the estimate was 15 million. Compared to other Arab nations of the world, Dubai as a tourist destination could cost you more money. Most of the Dubai hotels charge the same rate as of European ones.