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A close competitor to Dubai's tourism industry is that of neighboring Abu Dhabi. The two are the largest and wealthiest cities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). However, they are parts of separate emirates, so they each have their own governments. As a consequence, they are natural competitors. The two actually compete using their own state-supported airlines, Emirates in Dubai and Etihad in Abu Dhabi. These carriers compete in the Europe-Asia market using their respective homes as hubs. This draws traffic via each different airline, and both are critical to the tourism strategies of their respective emirates (ETurboNews, 2011).
While Dubai's tourism industry is based on luxury -- high end hotels, resorts and shopping -- the tourism industry of Abu Dhabi is different. Abu Dhabi competes vigorously for tourism dollars, but its tourism industry is more diversified than that of Dubai. The city of Abu Dhabi has a...
However, Abu Dhabi has a larger territory and inland areas such as the oasis city of al-Ain have appeal to tourists.
Abu Dhabi's tourism industry is supported by extensive public funding. Unlike Dubai, Abu Dhabi has significant oil wealth and this provides the capital that the emirate needs to build out its tourism infrastructure, including Etihad and various marketing programs. Abu Dhabi hopes to attract two million tourists by the end of 2011 and attract five million tourists within ten years (Oakley, 2011).
One of the major differences between the tourism strategy for Abu Dhabi and for Dubai is that the former emirate is not dependent on tourism. Of the two, it is Abu Dhabi that has significant oil wealth and as a result of that the emirate has a strong balance sheet. The earnings from the inchoate tourism…
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