WE’RE CONCERNED ABOUT: Dubai (1)
Things are going from worse to worse for the desert Emirate of Dubai. Having had to face the global shame of a recent $10 billion bailout from neighbor Abu Dhabi, it now appears as if Dubai’s ruling Maktoum family is clamping down on the city-state’s bad news industry.
As of late last month, a decree by Dubai’s Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DTCM) has ordered all Dubai hotels to keep mum on occupancy rates, visitor numbers and revenues. In return, DTCM would do all of the tourism talking.
The move comes after a spate of badder-than-bad press regarding Dubai’s hotel and real estate developments including THIS
piece in The New York Times detailing a mass exodus of foreign workers and invasion of icky cockroaches in luxury resorts.
The DTCM’s new policy is just one of many new acts of media control aimed at shoring up Dubai’s quickly faltering public image.
Yikes!
TRANSRACIAL 
April 6, 2009 at 3:58 pm
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April 14, 2009 at 12:08 pm
hello i love dubai
April 14, 2009 at 12:12 pm
have you been?
April 29, 2009 at 1:44 pm
dua qe te shof dubajn vendin me te mrekullushem
April 29, 2009 at 2:41 pm
does anyone know what this person said?
April 30, 2009 at 9:29 am
She said that: she wants t see Dubai , a very wonderfull place. That is Albanian Language.
April 30, 2009 at 12:35 pm
why thank you
April 30, 2009 at 9:31 am
Bravo Hajrie, Dubai eshte shume i bukur, po me e bukur eshte shqiperia jone e mrekullueshme qe rron ne zemren e do shqiptari.
April 30, 2009 at 12:35 pm
and this means?
May 2, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Waw!!! So gorgeous!!! Really cool!!!! very contrast with our islamic school building in Indonesia!!
May 2, 2009 at 12:26 pm
If u visitin’ my blog, so, U’ll find the answer!!!
May 19, 2009 at 10:44 pm
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