488 Hotels and Hotel Appartment for Dubai Visitors

Tapping mass market will boost Dubai's visitors to 15m by 2015
GulfNews - Dubai,United Arab Emirates

Dubai: Dubai expects to attract 15 million tourists by 2015, but this will not be achieved unless it extends its focus to include the mass market as well as luxury. ...chief executive of Alpha Tours, Gassan Aridi, said Dubai needed to start tapping in to markets outside the luxury one, which is its prime focus at present, in order to achieve such a growth in the number of visitors to the emirate. ...the number of hotels and hotel apartments are expected to increase to 488 by 2010, increasing from 452 in 2007.

...Luxury developments to open this year include Atlantis The Palm and The Address, Downtown Burj Dubai, a 63-storey tower offering a five-star experience close to the world's tallest building, the Burj Dubai and the world's largest shopping and entertainment destination, the Dubai Mall. ...