Milan has some of Italys top clubs, bars and cinemas. A fabulous year round cultural calendar is topped off by La Scalas opera season, which opens each year on 7 December, which is the citys patron saints day.
The Galleria Vittorio Emanuele is the worlds oldest shopping mall. The mall is covered over by an steel and an arching glass roof and the central point is topped with a glass dome. The Galleria connects two of Milans most famous landmarks, The Duomo and the Teatro Alla Scala. More than 120 years after its inauguration, the four story arcade includes elegant shops as well as restaurants, bars and cafes. Directly connected to the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II is Milans ultra luxurious Park Hyatt hotel, offering the citys most luxurious and most expensive rooms and facilities.
Milan is one of the fashion centres of Europe and shopping here is like heaven. If you are lucky enough to come here during the sales there will be some bargains to be found. If you are serious about your shopping and looking for some real bargains head out to the out let malls. There are 2 near Milan. One is across the border in Switzerland at Mendrissio and there are bus trips that arrange the shopping trips here.
Bars and cafes come into their own as the after work crowds seek out the perfect aperitivo as well as the best place to see and be seen. Many bars offer free finger food with aperitifs. Classic cocktails often involve Prosecco dry or sweet sparkling wine or Campari.
Milan has its own typical food. This includes Cotoletta alla Milanese, a fried veal fillet in bread crumbs. Other typical dishes are Cassoeula stewed pork rib chops and sausage with Savoy cabbage and tomato sauce. Season related pastries are Chiacchiere fried flat cookies and Tortelli fried spherical cookies. The most famous Milanese cheese is Gorgonzola.
Milan is a sprawling metropolis, but most of its attractions are concentrated in its centre. Its hub is the Duomo, a fantastic Gothic confection topped by the Maddonina our little Madonna, Milans protectress.
The emirate was not even considered as a tourist location ten years ago. In 2005 Dubai's revenue per hotel guest was the highest in the world at $175, ahead of Las Vegas despite the emirate having no gambling. In this context the result was, very naturally, extensive investments in hotels: Dubai has 383 hotels with a capacity of 35,000 rooms, by the end of 2009 a further 140 hotels will be built roughly doubling the amount of rooms.
The Dubai Government's latest investment is the $27 billion Bawadi project in the Dubailand theme park district which will add 31 hotels over the next decade. Including the largest hotel in the world: the Asia-Asia hotel (6500 rooms). Many other Government initiated projects include an Armani hotel, high-rises, of witch one is Dubai's first Four Seasons, many hotels within the Dubailand theme park's subdevelopment areas apart from Al Bawadi, and a joint venture with Kerzner International for the Atlantis hotel, the first of more than 25 to be built in the Palm, Jumeriah area? only to name a few of the buildings that shall house the waves of tourists that Dubai is expecting every year to visit. The Government appears to be the one who controls the development.
After building all these new assets one needs a steady flow of investments and sustained promotion of Dubai as a tourism favorite. In 2000 the emirates have created the Dubai Media City. The media companies, being on tight budgets, concentrated on what is happening all around them creating a steady wave of publicity about the al attractions of Dubai, its mass, aspirations and its projects for the future.
So the trigger to the new rising economy of Dubai is its tourism sector which rapidly took it to the top and the tourists are the result of publicity. As new economic powers are on the rise Dubai takes its place among them.
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