Dubai

Dubai or Dubayy (in {{ll|Arabic}}: دبيّ, IPA {{IPA|/ðʊ-'bɪ/}}, generally {{IPA|/dʊ-'baɪ/}} in {{ll|English}}) refers to either

Entertainment

The annual month-long Dubai Shopping Festival (DSF) draws shoppers from the Indian subcontinent and around the world. Attendance at the 2005 Festival topped 3.3 million visitors. Other, smaller shopping festivals, such as "Dubai Summer Surprises" are held throughout the year.

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Dubai Shopping Festival - Indian subcontinent

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The city has many malls such as City Centre, Lamcy Plaza, Al Ghurair City, Ibn Battuta Mall, Mercato Mall, Oasis Centre and Wafi Centre that have international stores, theaters, gaming arcades, and food courts. The Oasis Centre caught fire and recived major damage on 9 September 2005.

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Malls - Theaters - Gaming arcades

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Many more extravagant shopping malls are being built for the future, including (1) Emirates Mall, which will have the world's largest indoor ski slope, and (2) Dubai Mall, part of the Burj Dubai development, that aims to be the biggest mall in the world with the tallest building in the world,when completed.

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Dubai hosts many world class sporting events, including the Dubai Tennis Open, Dubai Desert Golf Classic, and the Dubai World Cup, an annual horse racing event. The World Cup is world's highest stakes horse race, with over US $15 million worth of prize money handed out.

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Dubai World Cup - Horse

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Dubai currently has two waterparks in Wonderland and Wild Wadi with more being planned for Dubailand. Dubailand, an entertainment city vaguely planned off the concept of Disneyland was launched in October 2003. Through subsequent revisions, the master planned development will span over 3 billion square feet (300,000,000 m²) with the 1st phase to be completed by 2008. http://www.dubailand.ae/

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A large population of prostitutes work in Dubai, spurred on by the large amount of tourism http://www.rednova.com/news/health/170378/prostitutes_of_the_world_unite_in_dubai/

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