I've been noticing recently all the newspaper ads for Dubai as a resort destination, and for the first time it hit me - the middle east is a viable holiday destination from Asia.
It's only 4 hours time difference from Beijing/Hong Kong/Singapore. The flights and prices are not that expensive.
With a rapidly developing middle class in China, developers are scrambling for the Chinese leisure dollars. Huge casino developments in Macau and Singapore, airport and hotel expansion in Bangkok, Disneyland in Hong Kong.
The Chinese tourists are coming! And the Middle East wants them!
"According to the Qatar Tourism Authority, more than 100 buildings and towers are going up in Doha, whose modest skyline is currently punctuated by about two dozen high-rises. Cranes fill the hot sky. Skeletal hotels, resorts and financial centers ring Doha Bay. And from every corner, a symphony of earth-moving equipment and power tools hums the theme of one of the world's richest countries (as measured by gross domestic product per capita) striving to become a world-class business and leisure center."
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