Dubai confirms rise in UK visitors
Dubai has seen a 6.6% increase in UK visitors over the past 12 months, said the Department of Tourism and Commence Marketing.
Last year a total of 685,629 visited the United Arab Emirate, up from 643,195 the previous year.
From the end of March, flight capacity will increase when Qantas will launch a twice daily flight to Dubai from London Heathrow, bringing the total number of weekly flights to 161.
Dubai Tourism’s UK & Ireland director Ian Scott said: "2013 will see developments throughout the destination including the addition of 4,000 beds across a range of four and five star hotels, 11,000 beds in planning and additional airlift, making the destination even more accessible to the UK consumer."
Read TravelMole’s review of Dubai’s first four-star beach hotel here.
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