An Insight to Dubai Shopping Festival

The Dubai shopping festival started in Feb, 1996 by the Government of Dubai. The main purpose of initiating such festival is to pave way for more trade opportunities. But with the passage of time this festival has got the attractions of millions of people across the globe. Now, this Dubai shopping festival has earned the title of entertainment event as well. The Arabic name of the Dubai shopping festival is ‘Layali Dubai’. Right from its inception, about fourteen years ago, this festival is held every year in the very first quarter of the year.

This particular Dubai shopping festival has played a vital role in promoting cultures of different countries as well. This Dubai shopping festival successively promoting tourism in Dubai draws millions of people each year around the globe. The total duration of the Dubai shopping festival is one year. A majority of the world’s largest brands offer their quality products at least possible prices.

The participants of the Dubai shopping festival promote their heritage and culture through various means as clothing, music, handicrafts and traditional dance. Nowadays, it has gained so much popularity that millions of people around the far far-flung areas of the world as Europe, America, Africa and Asian countries comes and join it. The location of the Dubai shopping festival ideally positioned and one can find it with ease without having any sort of difficulty. Its timing is 4:00pm till midnight. The Dubai shopping festival has wide-range of electronic items, jewelry items, cosmetics, textiles, ready-made garments and handicrafts available here at least possible rates. Apart from that, major travel agencies and hotel management offers special discount for this festival, that is also plus for this kind of festival. The official air carrier of the Dubai shopping festival is Emirates Air.

Several bargain hunters will, certainly in their dream world at the Dubai shopping festival with massive discount on any product you ever dreamed for as major designer fashion brands, gold, computers, mobiles, cars, etc. There are also thousands of competitions held throughout the festival with prizes worth millions. The 2012 Dubai shopping festival includes a Mega Raffle whereby one lucky shopper wins’ luxury Infinite QX 56 SUV and AED 100,000

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On top of the excitements of the Dubai shopping festival, the city itself offers a plenty of fascinating sights in the realm of the Dubai shopping festival. Visitors can head to marvel at the Burj Al Arab (the tallest hotel of the world) or can head towards Bastakia Quarter to taste traditional Dubai cuisines. You can also head to Business Arcade to purchase quality products at least possible prices.

The global village is the special realm of this great event. During this festival, different nations from around the world place their stalls to promote their particular country’s culture. The global village has gained a considerable amount of attractions for the last few years, and a lot of visitors only come to the Dubai to be a part of this village. The event of this high-magnitude is hard to resist.

During the Dubai shopping festival, a number of other sorts of entertainment programs hold in different localities of Dubai. Many foreign visitors from around the world specially come to Dubai to see the performance of legend Arabic artists including: Amr Diab, Milhim Barakat, Asala, Kazim Al Sahir, Fadl Shakir, Diana Haddad, Najwa Kareem and Fadl Shaker. Visitors of the Dubai shopping festival also participates in certain lucky draws as well; these sorts of lucky draw give different prized to the winners. The prizes include: Lexus cars, Gold, Nissan Patrols or gold itself. It is highly expected that this year’s Dubai shopping festival will greatly attract a large amount of visitors for far-flung areas of the world.

Dubai has long been regarded as a retail paradise for shoppers around the world. Purchase, though, remains the heart of this festival. Besides the shopping malls, one of the most popular shopping includes thousands of carpets from around the world. Other great events include fireworks night, the international fashion shows, exhibition of laser lights, musical concerts and many other cultural events that attract visitors of both local and foreign.

Unlike the expensive shopping Malls of the West, Dubai malls are pocket-friendly and customer-friendly and offers only the hottest selling items. The decoration of these Malls is surreal. One of such Mall is Business Arcade and Wafi Mall that are the home to brands of Montblanc as well as the Mall of Emirates also equally popular among the locals and foreigner visitors. These Malls are centrally air-conditioned, so you don’t have to worry about heat and sweating during the shopping.