Why Dubai?

Dubai has emerged as a leading regional commercial hub with state-of-the art infrastructure and a world class business environment. It has now become the logical place to do business in the Middle East, providing investors with a unique and comprehensive value added platform.

With its strategic location, tax-free living and consistently strong economic outlook, Dubai is the ideal base for multinationals and other companies targeting markets in Central Asia, the Middle East, Africa, the Asian Subcontinent and the Eastern Mediterranean . These regions have a population of over 2 billion people and a combined GDP of US$ 6.7 trillion.

Accessible through its ultra modern airport, that offers connections to over 200 destinations, Dubai is also a thriving tourist destination and attracts a large number of skilled professionals. Its robust economic cluster of technology, media, finance and healthcare hubs makes Dubai a viable and attractive proposition for any business.

Apart from economic advantages, the city offers a superior quality lifestyle that is truly international with luxury residential and office accommodation and excellent educational, health and shopping facilities. Sporting and leisure facilities are abundant and Dubai 's top class international hotels offer a wide range of dining and entertainment choices.

Dubai's Business Climate

In the UAE, economic activity is regulated by individual emirates as well as the Federal Government. In Dubai, the authorities have deliberately sought to create an environment which is well ordered without being unduly restrictive. As a result, Dubai offers businessmen operating conditions that are among the most liberal and attractive in the region. There are many options open to international companies seeking to establish a business relationship with Dubai.

Market Access

As the leading regional trading hub, Dubai offers access to a market of outstanding potential for overseas companies in a wide range of sectors. Among its key characteristics are:

- A large market: more than $17 billion in domestic imports annually; gateway to a $150 billion p.a. 2 billion population regional import market
- A growing market: Dubai's imports have more than doubled since 1989; regional economic growth and liberalisation is set to boost demand
- A prosperous market: strategic location at the heart of one of the world's richest regions
- A diversified market: wide import requirements; opportunities for suppliers of most products
- An accessible market: served by more than 170 shipping lines and 120 airlines
- An open market: no exchange controls, quotas or trade barriers

Pro-Business Environment

Dubai offers incoming business all the advantages of a highly developed economy. Its infrastructure and services match the highest international standards, facilitating efficiency, quality and service. Among the benefits are:

- Free enterprise system
- Highly developed transport infrastructure
- State-of-the-art telecommunications
- Sophisticated financial and services sector
- Top international exhibition and conference venue
- High quality office and residential accommodation
- Reliable power, utilities etc.
- First class hotels, hospitals, schools, shop
- Cosmopolitan lifestyle.

Special Investment Incentives

Dubai's highly successful Jebel Ali Free Zone and the Airport Free Zone provide all the advantages available elsewhere in the emirate, with the following additional benefits:

- 100% foreign ownership and control
- Renewable 15-year guarantee of no taxation
- No customs duties
- Flexible investment options
- Efficient transport and distribution facilities
- Full administrative and recruitment support.

The Costs
Overseas companies setting up in Dubai can secure cost advantages not generally available internationally. Among the reasons are:

- No corporate taxes
- No income taxes
- No foreign exchange controls
- No trade barriers
- Competitive import duties (4% with many exemptions)
- Competitive labour costs
- Competitive energy costs
- Competitive real estate costs

Opportunities

Dubai presents international business with a wide range of opportunities for different activities and operations, including:

- Trade
- Transport and distribution
- Manufacturing and processing
- Regional offices

Some of Dubai's new projects and future developments

Huge opportunities continue to present themselves to international businesses in Dubai due to its mega projects across various industries. Here are some of them:

Dubailand
Dubailand, is located on Emirates Road. When completed, this 278 sq km park will include 45 mega projects and 200 sub projects and be one of the world's largest theme parks. Some of the projects within Dubailand are listed below:

- Plantation Polo & Equestrian Club
- 5 star boutique hotel complex
- Air conditioned deluxe stabling provisions for 800 horses
- Equestrian and Polo academy
- Fully air conditioned indoor riding area
- 5 polo fields
- International Show jumping arena
- Club houses, restaurants, retail outlets
- Multiple outdoor riding arenas
- Cross country course; trail rides, grass paddocks, horse walkers
- Equine hydrotherapy pool, veterinary clinic, dedicated onsite farrier
- Children抯 play areas & Kindergarden
- Swimming pool
- Country Club with dedicated 40,000 sq ft Health Club and Fitness Centre
- 110 Colonial Manor Houses

Dubai Sports City
- Multi purpose stadiums for hockey, soccer, tennis, rugby, sports academies, golf course, golf, soccer school
- Stadium hotel, boutique hotel, schools, mosques, commercial and community centers and sports themed shopping mall

Motor City
- Autodrome, F1 theme park, Kart dome, racing school, auto mall
- Business park, residential, Hotels, cafes, restaurants, community centre and retail

Dubai Golf City
- Five themed golf courses, golf academy, club house, villas, mansions, hotel, convention centre, retail

Palmarosa Health Farm
- Hotel, villas, spas, health spas, retail
- Mosque, post office, general clinic, children抯 nursery

Dubai Wheel
- Observatory wheel, ferris wheel, service retail building, first aid clinic room

Beacon Education
- Education city, nursery, schools, sports halls, auditorium, dormitories, youth hostels, town houses

Dubai Lifestyle City
- IMG Sports Academies, sports, facilities, shopping mall, golf academy, velodrome, tennis academy, aquatic centre, sports hotel and spa, luxury hotel & spa villas, retail

City of Arabia
- Restless planet Jurassic theme park, Mall of Arabia (Largest mall in the world), Wadi walk shopping and entertainment centre, hotels, attractions
- Residential ?serviced apartments, offices

Legends
- Theme park and leisure complex consisting of villas, towers, golf course

Al Barari
- Cultural amphitheatre, medicine health spa, botanical gardens leisure park, retail centre, villas, boutique hotel, resort, restaurants, cafes, retail, kindergarten, nursery, health club, private general clinic

Sahara Kingdom
- Indoor theme park, retail souk, resorts, hotels, water shows, restaurants, clubs, local mosque

Falcon City
- Pharoes Theme park, cultural world with life size components such as Eiffel Tower, Pyramids, Hanging Gardens, Taj Mahal, club, sports, hotels and hotel apartments, theme parks, shopping, parks, shopping malls, medical centre, mosque, nursery, schools

Al Sahra Desert Resort
- Amphitheatre, show, restaurants, lounges, craft souk, events arena, oasis lodge with desert villas, hotel Al Sahra

Islamic Culture & Science World
- Science museum and cultural centre, 3D theatre, indoor and outdoor exhibition centre and area, mosque, outdoor theatre, hotel complex, commercial offices, residential

Dubai Outlet City
- Outlet mall, cultural and entertainment centre for exhibitions and symphonies, hotels, serviced apartments, floating huts, budget hotel, restaurants, shops, fitness centre

Freej-Dubailand
- Theme Park, shows, entertainment, hotels, shops, cafes

Dreamworks
- Theme Park, shows, entertainment, hotels, shops, cafes

Legoland
- Theme Park, shows, entertainment, hotels, shops, cafes

Marvel / Nickelodeon
- Theme Park, shows, entertainment, hotels, shops, cafes

Beautyland
- Beauty themed spas, beauty museum, beauty academy, showroom for cosmetics, fragrances, accessories, conference hall, hotel resort, retail, recreation

Universal City Dubailand
- Luxury hotels, retail and food outlets and a residential complex

Palm Jumeirah
Launched in 2001, Palm Jumeirah is the iconic project that has proved that dreams can become a reality. A man-made island and a cultural icon, Palm Jumeirah immediately doubled Dubai's shoreline and will create a world leading luxurious destination of world-class hotels, retail, marinas, homes, leisure and entertainment. The central feature being a Trump International Hotel and Tower.

Palm Jebel Ali
The second of The Palm trilogy, Palm Jebel Ali is located in Waterfront district. It will feature a selection of luxury hotels and luxurious water homes built. There will be beachside villas, shoreline apartments, world leading dive sites and leisure activities.

Palm Deira
The third chapter in The Palm trilogy, Palm Deira was launched in November 2004, and it offers a choice of scintillating investment opportunities on both the Trunk and the Corniche. It will create a new gateway in Deira which will no be the focal point that unlocks access to the waterfront living communities which will be developed on this third man-made island.

The World
An amazing 300 islands in the shape of the world's continents to be created off the coast of Dubai. The World offers imaginative world leading investors an unprecedented opportunity in the form of leisure, residential and tourist developments. It will add over 200 kilometres of new beachfront to Dubai's expanding coastline.

Dubai Waterfront
The Waterfront will transform 1.4 billion square feet of empty desert and sea into an international community for an estimated population of 1.5 million people that is twice the size of Hong Kong Island. It will be the exemplar sustainable city founded upon ideals such as social equity, economic prosperity and resource efficiency ?a city of the future for the future.

Dubai Promenade
Dubai Promenade, it抯 designed to be a sophisticated waterfront community creating a virtual peninsula along the Dubai shoreline in New Dubai. Surrounded by the majesty of nature in all her glory it will become a destination and residential community of desire.

The Universe
The Universe is another first and will become a universal icon. Positioned off Dubai抯 coastline close to The Palm Jumeirah, inshore from The World, this new project will be a flagship conceptual to reality development of Nakheel抯 recently launched sustainability initiative - Blue Communities - Totally committed to providing a truly sustainable community.

The Dubai Mall, Downtown Burj Dubai
The earth has a new centre. The Dubai Mall is 12.1 million sq ft shopper抯 paradise with a retail and entertainment mix to revolutionize the shopping mall experience. Located in the heart the prestigious Downtown Burj Dubai, the Dubai Mall is one of the largest malls in the world. With 1,200 specialty stores, over 150 food and beverage options and an array of world-class attractions, it is premier lifestyle destination for shopping, leisure and entertainment.

Burj Dubai
Burj Dubai is not simply to be the world抯 highest building. It抯 to embody the worlds highest aspirations.Burj Dubai looks different depending on where you're standing, for those living nearby; it is a shining accomplishment tangible proof of Dubai's central role in a growing world. For those standing in other global capitals, it is a shining symbol-an icon of the new Middle East prosperous, dynamic, and successful

Dubai World Central
Dubai World Central (DWC) is one of the most strategically important commercial infrastructure developments ever launched in the region. DWC, the 140-square kilometre urban aviation project centered around the world's largest international airport, will transform the region into one of the most powerful global centres for logistics, tourism and commerce.

Al Maktoum International (new airport)
At the heart of this huge new community is the Al Maktoum International Airport, planned as the world's largest passenger and cargo hub, ten times larger than Dubai International Airport and Dubai Cargo Village combined. If completed as planned, the airport will have an annual cargo capacity of 12 million tons, more than three times that of Memphis International Airport, today's largest cargo hub, and a passenger capacity of more than 120 million - almost 30% more than Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, currently the world's busiest passenger airport.

Exhibition World
Exhibition City will be the world's largest in terms of display space, halls and offices. It will have facilities including hotels, restaurants, residential apartments etc. The exclusive exhibition facility, spanning over 500,000 square meters, will have 19 exhibition halls, conference halls and service facilities. The project will be developed in phases, the first of which is expected to be complete in 2009. The first phase, to be implemented on 100,000 square meters, will have a parking space for more than 20,000 cars. It will be completed in phases by 2020。

 

News

United Development Company named Silver Sponsor of CityScape Global 2012
United Development Company (UDC), one of Qatar's leading shareholding companies, announced today it plans to participate as a Silver Sponsor in CityScape Qatar 2012.

 

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