Dubai is the most populous and second largest emirate of the United Arab Emirates after Abu Dhabi, in the emirate of Dubai, oil income represents a small proportion of the emirate's income, the majority of the emirate's revenues are from the Jebel Ali Free Zone (JAFZ) and from tourism. Dubai is a city of contrasts where outstanding modern architecture and soaring skyscrapers are juxtaposed with suburban villas and some of the traditional Arabic homes, Dubai is one of the most successful business hubs in the region. Dubai has a dry climate, characterized by scanty and erratic rainfall, and high levels for temperature, humidity, and sunshine. The summer months, from June to September, are very hot, midday temperatures range from 35°C to 42°C, during this period the night time temperatures, falling to 20°C to 28°C. From December to March, the climate is considerably more equable with midday temperatures ranging from 25°C to 35°C and falling to as low as 9°C at night. Between Dubai main attractions are the the Creek, Archeological sites, Shaik Saeed’s House, Bastakiya, Jumairah Mosque, Burj Nahar, Bayt Al Wakeel, the Souks, Dubai Museum, Umm Al Sheif Majlis, Heritage and Diving Village, Bani Yas Square. Dubai offers some of the best shopping anywhere in the world with competitive prices in almost every product, the key to shopping here is to bargain where possible, since prices, especially in the souks, can drop quite substantially.

HOTELS IN DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 

FLIGHT INFORMATION: Dubai is served by the Dubai International Airport, it's located 4 km to city centre. In 2005, the airport served 24,700,000 passengers.

The following are the airlines that serve Dubai International Airport:

Aer Lingus (Dublin), African Express Airways (Nairobi), Air Astana (Almaty), Air Blue (Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore), airBaltic (Riga) Air Comores International (Moroni), Aero Asia International (Faisalabad, Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Multan, Peshawar), Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremetyevo) Aerosvit Airlines (Kiev-Boryspil), Air Algerie (Algiers, Beirut), Air China (Beijing), Air France (Paris-Charles de Gaulle) Air India (Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Chennai, Kochi, Mumbai, New Delhi, Pune, Thiruvananthapuram) Alitalia (Milan-Malpensa) Ariana Afghan Airlines (Kabul), Armavia (Yerevan), Austrian Airlines (Vienna), Biman Bangladesh Airlines (Chittagong, Dhaka, London-Heathrow) British Airways (London-Heathrow), Caspian Airlines (Ahwaz, Tabriz, Tehran-Imam Khomeini), Cathay Pacific (Bahrain, Bangkok, Mumbai, Hong Kong) China Southern Airlines (Beijing, Lagos), Condor Airlines (Frankfurt) Cyprus Airways (Bahrain, Larnaca), Daallo Airlines (Djibouti) Delta Air Lines (Atlanta), EgyptAir (Cairo) Emirates (Abidjan, Accra, Addis Ababa, Alexandria, Amman, Athens, Auckland, Bahrain, Bangalore, Bangkok, Beijing, Beirut, Birmingham, Brisbane, Cairo, Casablanca, Chennai, Christchurch, Colombo, Damascus, Damman, Dar es Salaam, Delhi, Dhaka, Doha, Düsseldorf, Entebbe, Frankfurt, Glasgow, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Islamabad, Istanbul-Atatürk, Jakarta, Jeddah, Johannesburg, Karachi, Khartoum, Kochi, Kolkata, Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait City, Lagos, Lahore, Larnaca, London-Gatwick, London-Heathrow, Luqa, Male, Manchester, Manila, Mauritius, Melbourne, Milan-Malpensa, Moscow-Domodedovo, Mumbai, Munich, Muscat, Nagoya-Centrair, Nairobi, New York-JFK, Nice, Osaka-Kansai, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Perth, Peshawar, Rome-Fiumicino, Riyadh, Sanaa, Sao Paulo-Guarulhos, Seoul-Incheon, Seychelles, Shanghai-Pudong, Singapore, Sydney, Tehran-Imam Khomeini, Thiruvanthapuram, Tripoli, Tunis, Venice, Vienna, Zurich) Ethiopian Airlines (Addis Ababa, Mumbai) Eritrean Airlines (Asmara) Falcon Express Finnair (Helsinki) Georgian Airways (Tbilisi) Gulf Air (Bahrain, Muscat) Indian (Hyderabad, Chennai, New Delhi, Jaipur, Kolkata) Iran Air (Bandar Abbas, Isfahan, Shiraz, Tehran-Imam Khomeini) Iraqi Airways (Baghdad) Jat Airways (Beirut, Belgrade) Jazeera Airways (Kuwait) Jubba Airways (Aden, Bosaso, Djibouti, Hargesia, Mogadishu, Sanaa) Kenya Airways (Guangzhou, Nairobi) KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (Amsterdam) Korean Air (Cairo, Seoul-Incheon) Kuwait Airways (Kuwait) Libyan Arab Airlines (Benghazi, Tripoli) Livingston Airlines (Milan-Malpensa) Lufthansa (Frankfurt, Munich) Mahan Airlines (Tehran-Imam Khomeini) Malaysia Airlines (Beirut, Karachi, Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait) Middle East Airlines (Beirut) Naft Airlines Olympic Airways (Athens, Kuwait) Oman Air (Beirut, Muscat) Onur Air (Istanbul-Atatürk) Pakistan International Airlines (Faisalabad, Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Multan, Peshawar, Quetta) Qatar Airways (Doha) Royal Brunei (Bandar Seri Begawan, London-Heathrow) Royal Jordanian (Amman) Royal Nepal Airlines (Kathmandu) Saudi Arabian Airlines (Jeddah, Riyadh, Dammam) Shaheen Air (Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar) S7 Airlines (Moscow-Domodedovo, Novosibirsk) Singapore Airlines (Cairo, Istanbul-Atatürk, Moscow-Domodedovo, Singapore) Sri Lankan Airlines (Colombo, Kuwait) Sudan Airways (Doha, Khartoum) Swiss International Air Lines (Muscat, Zürich) Syrian Arab Airlines (Damascus) Tarom (Bucharest-Otopeni) Thavria Air Company Thai Airways International (Bangkok, Chennai, Kuwait) Transaero (Moscow-Domodedovo) Tunisair (Beirut, Tunis) Turkish Airlines (Istanbul-Atatürk) Turkmenistan Airlines (Ashgabat) Virgin Atlantic Airways (London-Heathrow) Yemenia (Aden, Bahrain, Dhaka, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait, Riyan, Sanaa).