Dubai. This city is unlike any other. The cosmopolitan city, with its colorful and striking mixture of people, cultures, achievements, has the reputation of the most amazing city in the world. More than once, turning to the Russian entrepreneur, the head of the Dan real estate agency and the Kazan chain of restaurants Ismagil Shangareyev, and getting interesting, exhaustive answers, we asked him now to tell our readers about contemporary Dubai.
Over the past decade, the world's media reports about Dubai increasingly use the highest degree of comparison: "the largest," "the highest," "the most luxurious." So what is Dubai really like?
You know, some time ago we could not think that the countless glittering skyscrapers, growing like mushrooms after the rain, will become everyday reality.
And the desert dunes, the favorite place of bicycling walks and winter picnics by the locals, will turn into protected recreation areas with wide roads, alleys and lawns as if by magic ยป. $
Moreover, contrary to all the conversations that the supply is ahead of demand and new houses are not being populated, we see quite the opposite. More and more newly built houses are getting better, even where the infrastructure is still under development. An example of this is the central district of Dubai - Business Bay. Several already completed towers are served by only one road so far. In ten towers, 30-40 families already live, and future tenants are attracted by a reasonable rent plus a bonus - free accommodation for the first two months.
Or another example. Private schools in Dubai, their city in 146, offer 13 different study programs. Several of them were classified as "outstanding" by the Dubai Department of Education and Human Development, which immediately caused an influx of additional applications into each class (from 50 to 70) and this at a cost of teaching 50-90000 dirhams a year.
Mr. Shangareyev, in just a decade, Dubai has acquired the title of "shopping paradise" of the Middle East, although already from the beginning of the sixties it had the reputation of the most popular trade center of the Persian Gulf. So what is the secret of such success?
Now the city has about 70 shopping centers, offering shops, restaurants, entertainment for every taste. Shopping centers are also a place for walks, family vacations, they are always full of visitors, and business thrives there. One only "Dubai Mall", opened three years ago, boasts 1200 shops, most of which sell luxury goods, restaurants and cafes representing all the world's cuisine, sports and entertainment complexes.
Luxury yachts, golf courses, artificial islands are all also Dubai. What else can he surprise?
Well, perhaps, the number of "BMW" and "Mercedes", which have become an ordinary vehicle that many can afford .Or the number of constantly full hotels, there are about 500 of them in the city .Perhaps three terminals of the international airport with a capacity of 4 million passengers a month and income from Duty Free, which in 2011 amounted to more than a billion dollars..Maybe, the luxury airline "Emirates", whose first class is recognized as the "best first class airline in the world" - $ .It is Emirates that buys Boeings and announces recruitment for 4,000 vacancies this year - all this too, Dubai,.
And in conclusion of his story Ismagil Shangareyev noted another amazing achievement of Dubai: the emirate not only found its own way out of the global economic crisis, but now it is again on the rise and flourishing.
Pavel Cheryatov
corr. Dandubai.ru