| Daily news, 07 Mar 2008 |
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DUBAI – The aggressive initiatives of the Dubai Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DTCM) to promote and market the emirate as a cruise destination in the region has yielded impressive results with Dubai’s state-of-the-art cruise terminal playing host to some 120,205 tourists in 2007, exceeding the projected 105,000 arrivals.
“The cruise tourism in Dubai is gaining strength each passing year and the year 2007 witnessed performance exceeding the projections. Dubai has emerged as preferred destination of choice for the global cruise liners. Several new cruise liners started using Dubai as a regional hub for their operations successfully. This spectacular performance is a major boost to the growth of regional cruise tourism,” Awadh Seghayer Al Ketbi, DTCM executive director, Dubai Cruise Terminal, said.
During the current winter season 2007-2008, Dubai expects more than 200,000 cruise passengers to visit the emirate. The emirate handled 32,000 cruise passenger movements in 2006, up from 23,000 cruise passengers in the previous year.
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