Abstract
The Persian Gulf region is known for being a very important area in terms of geopolitics. It holds up to 57% of the world's oil reserves and produces 27% of the global oil. Useless to say how vital to the world energy supply this region is and how extreme the tensions generated by this situation are. However, despite its tremendous reserves, it seems like the Persian Gulf region is unable to engender economic growth and has been unstable for decades.
But Dubai is the exception. Dubai tried a reconversion towards an economy less dependent on its natural, weak energy reserves contrary to its immediate neighbours. The government had the will to diversify the resources by audacious strategies, aiming at the prosperity and at the total independence towards the oil funds.
Dubai became in no time at all the global symbol of the globalization, the luxury, the tourism, the pharaonic projects. This is not due to random, but to the will of the royal family, in particular a man, the Sheik Al Maktoum, who guides the whole nation with his futuristic and ambitious view.
But can this territory of 3885m ² and of 1,2 million inhabitants become a model of tourist development for the Arabic world?
