Dubai Shopping Festival News

WTM news: Middle East fuels shopping centre boom
Big spenders with cash to splash are driving the trend for Middle Eastern hotels to be built inside shopping malls, reveals the new WTM Global Trends Report 2012.

The Dubai Shopping Festival with Rotana
Shop-a-holics can rejoice as the month-long Dubai Shopping Festival kicks off today, lasting until 5 February, and there is no better affordable and centrally-located hotel to be based for the festival than Centro Barsha Dubai. Offering guests convenient, stylish, affordable stays and superior accommodation, Centro Barsha is located just behind the Mall of the Emirates, Dubai’s, ensuring savvy shoppers won’t miss a minute of the action.

Dubai Shopping Festival spending up 37 percent in 2011
Visa, one of the world’s leading electronic payments networks and lead sponsor ofthe Dubai Shopping Festival 2011, has reported a 37 percent increase in spending from overseasvisitors compared to last year.