The United Arab Emirates has sold itself to foreigners for years as a sunny, safe, tax-free oasis.

The average hotel occupancy rate rose to 78.7 per cent The city also recorded a rise in hotel stays, reaching 32.7 million room nights compared to 31.2 million a year earlier Mayur Raut/Gulf News reader Dubai: Dubai’s tourism sector continued its upward ...

Not content with being home to the world’s tallest tower and fastest police car, Dubai has set a challenge for itself to become the world’s happiest city. In its quest to achieve this, the city in the sand is measuring people’s happiness through ...

Three decades ago, Dubai was little more than desert. The city exploded in prosperity after the United Arab Emirates discovered oil in 1966, leading to a development boom that has resulted in the world's tallest building, the second-biggest mall, one of ...

It was a fitting scene, on a fitting day, at a fitting place to sit down for an exclusive interview with Dr. Aisha Bin Bishr and her colleague Zeina El Kaissi, respectively the Director General and the head of emerging technology for Smart Dubai.

On the outskirts of Dubai, a shimmering metropolis built on buried oil, lies a small but similarly suave community looking at a new way of doing things. It is no small irony that the world's most brazen exemplar of fossil-fueled excess is also home to a ...

Terrifying images from inside Dubai airport emerged amid claims that Iran had launched a series of retaliatory attacks across the Middle East

With fresh strikes and counterstrikes intensifying tensions, Indians across the Gulf on Sunday reported anxiety, loud explosions and major travel disruptions, even as governments urged calm and issued safety advisories.