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The Al Fahidi Historical Neighbourhood, also called Al Bastakiya, is Dubai's historic district and major tourist destination. Tourism in Dubai is a major part of the economy of Dubai. Dubai was the third most visited city in the world in 2023 with 17 million international visitors according to Euromonitor International.
Sheikh Rashid, together with Sheikh Zayed, was the instrumental leaders of leading the country's tourism, having made a joint declaration for the founding of the Emirates. [9] In 1989 the Dubai Commerce and Tourism Promotion Board was established, to promote Dubai as a luxury destination for the up-tier market and influential business sectors.
Dubai is the top tourism destination in the Middle East. [187] According to the annual MasterCard Global Destination Cities Index, Dubai is the fifth most popular tourism destination in the world. [257] Dubai holds up to 66% share of the UAE's tourism economy, with Abu Dhabi having 16% and Sharjah 10%. Dubai welcomed 10 million tourists in 2013.
The emirates of Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Ras Al Khaimah have local court systems, while other emirates follow the federal court system. [4] Some financial free trade zones in Abu Dhabi and Dubai have their own legal and court systems based on English common law ; local businesses in both emirates are allowed to opt-in to the jurisdiction of common ...
The UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation plans to make the UAE passport one of the five strongest passports in the world by 2021. [11] According to The Passport Index , this goal was achieved by December 2018, ranking the Emirati passport as the strongest passport in the world with a visa-free score of 170.
Madame Tussauds Dubai is a wax museum and tourist attraction location on Bluewaters Island in Dubai. It opened in September 2021. It is the first Tussauds museum in the Middle East and twenty-fifth worldwide. The wax figures are featured in a range of themed settings such as of Music Party, Fashion, Leaders, Bollywood, Film, Sport, and Media.
Visa requirements for Emirati citizens were lifted by New Zealand (in July 1999), [3] Brunei (11 October 2003), [4] Kyrgyzstan (July 2012), Kazakhstan (July 2014), the Schengen Area countries (7 May 2015), [5] Belarus (30 April 2016), [6] Moldova (24 March 2017), [7] São Tomé and Príncipe (25 April 2017), [8] [9] Argentina (16 May 2017), [10] Chad [11] and Saint Lucia in October 2017, [12 ...