Tourism Contribution to Dubai Economic Growth

Sadun N Yassin Alheety, Tariq Khalaf Barakat Ayoub

Globally people have been trying to improve their living standards by inventing resources that are suitable for them while keeping their culture intact. It has been noticed that tourism as a growing industry could be one of the most important targets to achieve better economy and, more importantly, sustainable economy. The positive development of tourism in developed countries was taken by many developing countries and implementation of tourism was possibly a very important sector to the economy. In Dubai, the oil produced country, tourism is not a very old tradition; it is rather a new phenomenon that this study was found a very interesting topic to pursue and investigate. By setting the conceptual model, both variables, dependent and independent, were explored and studied using quantitative analysis by providing a suitable questionnaire hoping to explore a clear insight in both: the economy and the way people of Dubai thinking about tourism. Three independent variables of quality, assortment, and promotion were selected to see their impact on economic growth (dependent variable) in Dubai. A population of little more than 400 respondents was given a questionnaire that well-prepared to serve three hypotheses that are related to each of the impendent variables. The findings have shown that there is a positive impact on the growth of the economy in Dubai. The economy has benefited from adopting tourism by providing more employment opportunities, higher living standards, and noticeable economic empowerment. This growth was measured by the β factor of the quality, assortment, and promotion of tourism service which were found at 0.114, 0.117, and 0.351 respectively. These findings suggested that all assumed hypotheses-related are positively supportive. The importance of these findings lies in constituting a solid foundation for the government of Dubai and the private sector to continue investing in the tourism sector hoping that the β impact factor will be improved.

https://doi.org/10.31871/WJRR.7.5.8