Souks, shopping centers et malls à Dubaï :entre commerce et récréation
Dubai is not an oil city. Its oil production and reserves are limited. But the exploitation of hydrocarbons allowed to finance infrastructures and services necessary for the insertion of the city in the globalization within the framework of a strategy of development based on the synergy between tran...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Association AGF
2018-06-01
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| Series: | Bulletin de l’Association de Géographes Français |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/bagf/2607 |
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| Summary: | Dubai is not an oil city. Its oil production and reserves are limited. But the exploitation of hydrocarbons allowed to finance infrastructures and services necessary for the insertion of the city in the globalization within the framework of a strategy of development based on the synergy between transportation, trade and an active territorial branding. Besides real estate and finance, Dubai’s wholesale and retail sector (27% of the GDP in 2016) as well as tourism (9% of the GDP for the same year) hold an essential place in the economic diversification of the city. The regular increase of the volume of the retail trade can be attributed to a rising population together with the influx of tourists. Through the analysis of the souqs inherited from the merchant past of the city that still retain an image of exoticism despite their transformations, of the shopping centres that cover a variety of commercial facilities and the malls that convey an image of luxury and combine shopping and leisure activities, the article aims to show the interaction between trade, leisure and international tourism. |
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| ISSN: | 0004-5322 2275-5195 |