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Shop Your Heart Out in Dubai

December 27, 2007 at 9:15 AM | 0 Comments

Getting all your Christmas shopping done then splurging again at the post-Christmas sales not enough for your bad case of the shopping bug? Then it's time you booked a flight to the Dubai Shopping Festival which this time 'round takes place from January 24 to February 24, 2008.

The Dubai Shopping Festival is basically the ultimate in tourism marketing, in which retailers offer prizes to shoppers as well as huge discounts, a scheme which recently has been bringing at least an extra 3 million people to Dubai each time the event is held.

The colorful website that comes along with the shop-fest makes all kinds of odd claims--it even has a "fake" poll to hook visitors into taking a Desert Safari between shopping stints--and it's also full of interesting statistics about how much money the Dubai Shopping Festival rakes in a year. Dubai is still one of those odd destinations that we're not quite convinced by, but it does at least seem a popular destination for shopaholics wanting to escape a northern winter.

Related Stories:
· Dubai Shopping Festival [Official Site]
· Dubai Travel coverage [Jaunted]