Dubai’s winning strategy
I'm just back from a most amazing visit to Dubai, where I learned a thing or two about how strategic a government can be. Dubai's leaders have figured out how to make the place attractive for business, despite the fact that it's historical major industry was -- guess this -- pearl diving!Among the things they got right were plans for their National airline, Emirates. I took Emirates to Dubai and it was fascinating. Emirates has figured out that it's about 8 hours from many major markets, and is making great progress connecting them - for instance, connecting Europe and parts of China. Moreover, Dubai's brand new airport features 24/7 service, which among other things allows it to run its planes for 3 hours more per day than competing airlines, a huge advantage in a capital-intensive market. Beyond the airline, Dubai is studded with awe-inspiring office buildings and hotels, and I'm told that they are setting up their own stock exchange. Not bad for a place that not too long ago was in the middle of nowhere.
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- Posted: Tuesday, September 27, 2005
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Jeff on April 29, 2009
Dubai airport has one of the biggest terminal in the world. Everyone will be purely amazed to see how they tried to push hardly on development and construction projects within the city.
registry winner review on January 09, 2010
Thanks for sharing.
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