Following the popularity of the images published in Dubai’s Potemkin City below are more images from Dubai’s new billboard city, anticipating the construction of the largest hotel (5,044 rooms) in the world.
Dubai plans world’s largest hotel
Dubai is planning to build the world’s largest hotel as part of a $27 billion resort project to spearhead the Gulf emirate’s drive to become a global tourism hub. This will be part of the Bawadi project a 10 km (6.2 miles) long resort strip that resembled Las Vegas without the casinos — with 31 hotels modeled on ancient Egyptian palaces, Hollywood, London’s Houses of Parliament and even the moon. The centrepiece of the resort will be the 6,500-room Asia Asia Hotel which will be the largest in the world. The MGM Grand Las Vegas, now the largest hotel in the world, has 5,044 rooms.
Potemkin City
For now, billboards made of scaffolding and plywood are in place, but the destination hotel that they are advertising will still have a hard time outdoing them. They are on the road to Bab Al Shams, in the middle of the desert.
Potemkin villages were, purportedly, fake settlements on canvases erected at the direction of Russian minister Grigori Potemkin to fool Empress Catherine II during her visit to Crimea in 1787. This was to impress the monarch and her travel party with the value of her new conquests, thus enhancing his standing in the empress’s eyes.
(Images by Ken Vineberg – kenvineberg@hotmail.com)
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