DUBAI

 

«You take delight not in a city’s seven or seventy wonders,
but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.
»
Italo Calvino, Le città invisibili.

 

Dubai is the most wealthy and costantly developing city in the world. During these last five years the city grew its fortunes at a 8,5 % yearly rate. It comprises the highest concentartion of 5 stars hotel in the world: they are the needed support to the main activities of the city, namely business and tourism.
 
Dubai geographic location is a strategic and natural hinge between Europe, India and Asia; it is indeed at the center of a system of countries that account for 3,8 billions of people.
 
The United Arab Emirates are universally estimated as an oasis of political steadiness, general welfare, and one of the most secure areas in the world.
Dubai estabilished a dynamic and substantial economic system: through the last 3 years, nearly 200,000 companies took office in the city. Active in Dubai are the world top 100 joint-stock companies. Officialdom, or bureaucracy, is minimized.
 
The delivered services and technologies availed are the highest of any standard worldwide.
Unemployment is essentially non-existant; social welfare and peace are safe to be called as a collective heritage.
The local currency, albeit referred to an extended consumer basket, is actually a fixed exchange of the american dollar, concurring in making transactions stable.
The largest airport in world is currently under construction in Dubai, with projected full-yearly figures of 160 milions passenger traffic and 12 milion tons of freight.
 
Dubai and the United Arab Emirates in general deserve consideration as place where talents and ideas are welcomed and stimulated. Opportunities are numberless and easy to accomplish, in an environment protective of safety and personal freedom.
 
Such is the essence of this location and heritage that has been building through, one that embodies a conception of individual freedom and sound respect for others, a place where bringing together the possibility of goals achievement along with support for efficient executions and handy services.
 
A dynamic, ever-progressing place that calls for serenity and high quality of living: a real-life “learned game, correct and magnificent” (les Jeu Savant, Le Corbusier)
 
Dubai is the place that people from 180 nations call their home. They project themselves toward an higher quality of life, while constituting an engine of growth that directly generates costs-reduction across the board.
In the estimation of many stockbrokers, it is the location where business investments at large are most probable to take place.
 
Dubai equals to a Genius Loci.
 
No quote summarize Dubai’s business philosophy better than one give by Sheik himself, HH Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum:
 

«Most peolpe talk, we act; they plan, we execute. They pause, we march on.»