With Dubai the wonders never cease! The scope, pace and nature of the developments and projects in Dubai and the United Arab Emirates in general is mind-boggling. The hotel industry is also abuzz with new properties - the city of Dubai is currently host of about 40,000 rooms in various categories and this number is set to grow to almost 94,000 by 2016! The biggest project, Bawadi, itself will account for 29,000 hotel rooms, with the biggest hotel in the world, Asia-Asia (6,500 rooms). This article gives a short brief of the hotel industry and a list of the top 20 hotels in Dubai by popularity (Read it here)

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The InterContinental Hotels (InterContinental, Crowne Plaza) in Dubai Festival City are set to open soon, and are looking to recruit qualified hotel professionals in various supervisory and managerial roles. If you know anyone who’d be interested, please feel free to pass on this information. While many more positions are still open, the main key positions include:

1) Front Office Manager - Crowne Plaza - Arabic speakers preferred, must have Crowne Plaza experience
2) Assistant Chief Engineer - InterContinental / Crowne Plaza/ICRS
3) Food & Beverage Manager InterContinental / Crowne Plaza / Arabic speakers preferred
4) Front Desk Managers - Crowne Plaza
5) Reception Supervisor - Crowne Plaza [Read More!]

UAE has just blocked the popular Social networking tool / site, Orkut, which is used by millions of people around the world and is possibly among the top 3 sites used in India. Following the Orkut block, this hoax email / rumor / chainmail has been circulating in the UAE:

The Story....
A guy lost his girlfriend in a train accident....
but the gal's name nowhere appeared in the dead list. This guy
grew up n became IT technical architect in his late 20?s, achievement in itself!!.
He hired developers from the whole globe and plan to make a
software where he could search for his gf through the web..
Things went as planned...
n he found her, after losing millions of dollars and 3 long years!!
It was time to shut down the search operation, when the CEO of Google had a
word with this guy n took over this application,
This Software made a whopping 1 billion dollars profit in its first year,
which we today know as ORKUT .
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Boeing will broadcast the Premiere of its newest technologically advanced passenger jet - the 787 Dreamliner - to viewers around the world. The 787 Premiere will be carried live and in nine different languages on Sunday, July 8, at 3:30 p.m. PDT or 10:30 p.m. GMT via satellite and Webcast. To view the Webcast, viewers may log on to www.boeing.com or www.newairplane.com. Boeing will broadcast the Premiere to more than 45 countries using 35 satellite TV networks. Satellite television subscribers may tune in the following channels, depending on their satellite service provider: Specific channel or frequency information can be found on the Premiere Web site. [Read More!]

I had the pleasure and honor of doing an interview with Futurist Rohit Talwar recently, after his inspiring and dazzling presentation at the Travel Distribution Summit in London (eyefortravel TDS 2007 at the London Business Design Centre). In this special Talent Jungle People interview, Rohit tells us about his life, his approach to work and some trends related to hotels, travel, tourism and business in the Middle East, China, India and other emerging markets - JJ

Name: Rohit Talwar

Current Company and Title: CEO at Fast Future Ventures
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