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Dubai To Unveil Tourism Boosting Strategy
Bloomsburg has reported that Dubai plans to announce a strategy in the coming two weeks to attract tourists in the background of the ongoing financial crisis. Khalid Ahmed bin Sulayem, the director general of Dubai's Department of Tourism and Commercial Marketing, said that the emirate is gathering information and looking at trends in travel in tourism around the world, and may revise its target of attracting 15 million tourists a year by 2015 depending on the feedback reveived.
Source: www.ameinfo.com
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