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.
Latest images (June 2007): Asia-Asia Hotel at Bawadi, Dubai:
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.
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