Before more than 30 years, Dubai was just a desert like any city in the Gulf Area, but Dubai showcases how the miracle can actually happen through the past years.
Definitely Dubai’s comprehensive renaissance, which we can call it a new birth for the nation, was meritorious.
How was Dubai
In 1830, Dubai was not more than a fishing small small city.
By 1892, The pearl industry started to be existed and foreign traders begun to flock.
In the 1930s, Dubai’s pearl industry fall to its lowest level and depression hit the city.
In 1959, Dubai started working hard to become a major trading port, the Emir of Kuwait lent Dubai millions of dollars to be able to accommodate large ships.
In the late 1960s, the discovery of oil in the Gulf Area, which brings many traders to settle down in Dubai, made the economic soar into the air
By 1973, the Dirham become the official currency of Dubai.
By 1980, the annual income from oil decreased, which let Dubai to search for an alternative way to get money, it begins to focus in tourism and Emirates airline was established.
New Dubai
Dubai, the city of dreams, turned 180 degree from a desert to a glittering enormous hub and become one of the hottest tourist destinations in the world with all of it’s attractions. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, ruler of Dubai, not only wants Dubai to be ahead of other cities, but also he wants to Dubai precedes other cities with more than 10 years. “In the race for excellence, there is no finish line,” he said.
Nowadays, Dubai got the world’s tallest building, world’s biggest shopping mall, free-tax city, very low crime rate, and the highest growing economic rate ever.
