Monday 25 April 2011

FT.com - Dubai seen as a refuge amid turbulence

Yaser Alamoodi, a Saudi Arabian public relations executive, had his plans to holiday in Dubai during this month’s school vacation thwarted because he could not get a seat on a flight.

The aircraft were packed as tourists from Riyadh swarmed to an emirate they saw as immune to the kind of uprising that made it too dicey to go to their normal haunts.

He explained: “People didn’t go to Lebanon and Syria because of the situation. Egypt was out of the question. Bahrain was out of the question. So everybody just ended up going to the emirates.”

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