Dubai Eases Laws to Double Hotel Rooms Ahead of 2020 Expo - Bloomberg:
"Dubai plans to almost double the number of hotel rooms by 2020 as it expects a surge of visitors to the desert sheikhdom ahead of that year’s World Expo.
The emirate that spent more than $110 billion to transform itself into the Middle East’s commercial and entertainment hub is seeking to attract 20 million tourists annually by the end of the decade, Helal Saeed Almarri, director general of the Dubai Tourism and Commerce Marketing, said in an interview yesterday. To do that, it needs to raise the number of hotel rooms to as many as 160,000, many of them not in the luxury category Dubai is known for, he said.
“None of these rooms are being built specifically for the Expo or any one event,” Almarri said. “They’re being built purely because of the core tourism numbers. Dubai won’t turn into a ghost town after the Expo.”"
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