Those taking holidays to Dubai this year will be able to take advantage of a new tourist information centre that opened recently in Dubai airport.

The bureau is part of an initiative from the Dubai Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing in order to ‘provide assistance to visitors in exploring the emirate during their business tours and leisure holidays’.

When travellers visit the tourist information centre they will be able to discover information on the different facilities Dubai has to offer as well as tourist attractions, regional events, entertainment, shopping and other topics of interest to those on holidays in the area.

This is not the only new tourist information centre as there are now six throughout the city including Wafi City, Ibn Battuta Mall and other places.

Dubai Airport also offers a car hire desk, hotels and a duty free shopping centre. The emirate has been subject to much renovation over the last couple of years, and is set to make Dubai a tourist destination for holidays and tourists all over the globe.

For travellers from the UK, flights to Dubai are available from airlines such as Air France, Lufthansa, Emirates and Virgin Atlantic.

Families seeking holiday deals in Dubai this summer could find their holidays much cheaper thanks to a new ‘kids go free’ promotion launched in the city this month.

The campaign began on the 1st July and is set to run until the 20th September this year, an idea produced by the Dubai Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing and incorporating over 70 different attractions and properties around Dubai. Participating attractions offer free entry for children as part of the campaign for holidaymakers worldwide.

Atlantis The Palm is one of Dubai’s high profile resorts and is offering free entry for one child below the age of 16 when accompanied by a paying adult to the Lost Chamber, Dolphin Bay or Aqua Venture attractions.

Other locations included are the Dubai Aquarium and Underwater Zoo, Dubai Mall and the Sega Republic.

As mentioned in a recent article, travellers will soon have a choice of more luxury accommodation in Dubai as InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) has recently made rooms available at Dubai Festival City in their new InterContinental Residence Suites property.

City breaks to Dubai have become increasingly popular with British tourists in the last couple of years as the emirate has transformed itself into a destination great for holiday deals. As a result, flights to Dubai are available from most major UK airports.

Those seeking luxury holiday deals in Dubai will soon be able to take advantage of some new accommodation options in the city.

InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) has recently made an announcement stating it will be making rooms available from July at Dubai Festival City in its new InterContinental Residence Suites property.

City breaks in Dubai are becoming renowned as top of the range luxury holiday deals available at great prices so luxury accommodation is popular. This new establishment includes state of the art facilities like broadband access in all rooms, 37 inch plasma television screens and fully equipped kitchens.

There are 212 apartments in the hotel that range from one bed studios to a luxury penthouse with a spa treatment room and views of Dubai Creek.

InterContinental Residence Suites manager Tom Lord said:

“We have a truly international team with both local and international knowledge giving us a fantastic opportunity to provide a very personalised service to all of our guests. Making the property available for bookings from July has re-confirmed the enormous demand for this type of upmarket, extended residential accommodation as the market in Dubai continues to mature and diversify.”

City breaks in Dubai are available from most major airports in the UK.

Every holiday website will be inundated with requests for holidays to Dubai at the moment as the city is a bed of events, festivals and exciting new venues to visit.

Those seeking holiday deals to Dubai this summer will have the chance to visit the Summer Surprises Festival.

Summer Surprises started earlier this month on the 11th June and is to continue until the 14th August this year. This entertainment and shopping fiesta takes place across the emirate in different venues and enjoys a status on the annual festival calendar of Dubai, second only to the Shopping Festival that takes place in spring of each year.

For shopping lovers, there are plenty of huge discounts that can be used in a number of the gigantic shopping centres across Dubai.

The Festival Centre, where the Chocolate Villa event is set to take place later this year, is also playing host in Summer Surprises; this time to the House of Illusions event where attendees will receive a three course meal and a night of live music, comedy and magic. The world famous illusionist Van Buren will appear and the night will be hosted by Romany, the Diva of Mystery.

Holidays in Dubai have come a long way in recent years, making city breaks to Dubai highly popular all over the world.

For chocolate lovers all over the globe there are few really interesting chocolate events anywhere, but the sweet toothed will no doubt be making a beeline for Dubai this summer to see the Chocolate Villa event.

The Chocolate Villa event runs for the first two weeks in August, from the 1st to the 15th this year at the Dubai Festival City in the Festival Centre and is a real celebration of this worldwide popular confectionery. There will be a few last minute holidays booked this year for the Chocolate Villa in Dubai.

Not only will there be an exhibition of all sorts of chocolates but visitors will be able to taste them and explore an entire house made wholly from chocolate.

The Festival Centre itself is a delight to behold and has been described as an “unrivalled waterfront destination for style and sophistication”.

It is located on the banks of Dubai Creek and is great for holidays. The Festival Centre has more than a hundred restaurants and places to eat, over 600 shops including 25 flagship shops, a cinema with 12 screens and a full entertainment area.

The centre is also home to the next Paris Hilton reality television show Best Friend Forever filming from 17th June to 4th July this year.

Dubai is now considered as one of the many luxury city breaks available for Brits, but perhaps part of this can be attributed to the Keep Discovering Dubai tourism scheme that has recently drawn to a close.

According to the airline Emirates that is based in the city of Dubai, the Keep Discovering Dubai was a great success in raising the profile of the destination.

The campaign was set up in order to familiarise media and travel trade professionals with the city and over 2,400 industry people visited the city in under two months as a result of the scheme.

Emirates participated heavily in the campaign and said the campaign would ‘bolster and position Dubai as a first choice holiday and conference destination’.

Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al-Maktoum, chairman and chief executive of the airline, said: ‘The Keep Discovering Dubai campaign is a shining example of Dubai’s key players working together to drive and sustain a positive and lasting image of Dubai. The unique mix of nationalities hosted from across the world has helped Dubai further position itself globally as a leading holiday destination, an important step in retaining market share within the current environment.’

The Jumeirah Group, a Dubai-based hotel organisation has just launched a fabulous new promotion which they are offering to holiday makers with families, on a global scale. The new holiday promotion has been designed to provide holiday makers with children an opportunity to take advantage of staying in ’some of the most luxurious hotels in the world’.

The hotel group has launched this as ‘The Jumeirah Summer Days’ promotion, a fantastic new hotel scheme available to those taking a family holiday in London, New York and Dubai this year.

The new promotion means that children who are under the age of 15 years can eat and stay completely free in any Jumeirah hotel in the three capital cities. The hotel company claims that this year’s promotion is going to ‘enable families to make the most of the summer’.

The new Jumeirah family packages also includes; buffet breakfast, a daily gift certificate for a range of leisure facilities and full access to the water park ‘Wild Wadi’ in Dubai.

Chief Sales and Marketing Manager for Jumeirah Group, Apo Demirtas said:

“We are delighted to offer the ultimate family experience to our guests this summer. At Jumeirah, we believe that true luxury is emotional, memorable and above all, personal. We therefore felt it was important to offer our guests the flexibility to personalise our summer promotion.”

The cruise liner, Royal Caribbean’s Brilliance of the Seas has just announced that it will continue sailing from the popular holiday destination of Dubai throughout 2011 after its inaugural season in the emirate in 2010.

The cruise liners’ 2011 holiday season is scheduled to comprise of exactly nine new itineraries including its sailings between January to March that are set to call at a large number of popular holiday spots across the Arabian Peninsula.

Holiday makers travelling with the Royal Caribbean’s Brilliance of the Seas are going to visit Abu Dhabi, Fujairah, Mina Sulman in Bahrain and Muscat, the capital city of Oman.

The cruise ship is also going to be operating around trip sailings to India which means that Royal Caribbean’s Brilliance of the Seas will see maiden calls at Goa, Mumbai and Cochin.

Royal Caribbean’s Brilliance of the Seas’ passengers are able to take advantage of several new shore excursions in the 2011 itinerary, some of which include off-road driving in the Dubai deserts, visiting a palace in Abu Dhabi and riding the Arabian horses in Bahrain.

Royal Caribbean has just signed up to a joint marketing partnership with the newest attraction to Dubai, Dubailand and they are set to boost their Middle Eastern profile in the next few years.

On 5th May, the World Travel Award for the leading holiday destination in the Middle East was given to Dubai.

The World Travel Awards 2009 for the Middle East was held at Monarch Dubai, representing the final conclusions of a 42,000 polling vote which was collected from voters this year.

Emirates picked up the award for the leading economy airline and their hotel Emaar’s The Address was voted as the best new hotel in the Middle East.

There were a number of other firms that are based in Abu Dhabi who picked up awards and Ethiad took the accolade for best airline in the Middle East with Saadiyat Island given an award for the region’s leading development project aimed at holiday makers.

Founder of the World Travel Awards, Graham Cooke recently commented on the recent award ceremony:

“I am excited to see that the Middle East’s tourism offering is quickly diversifying and new players are taking great interest in being destinations, airlines or hotels of choice. It is particularly impressive to note that some of the major award winners tonight are very new companies that have quickly set themselves to be leading players in the travel, tourism and hospitality business.”

Frankfurt is set to be the new city break destination that is to benefit from a state of the art, five-star hotel from the Dubai hotel group, Jumeirah which sees the Dubai based holiday group launch their first hotel in Germany.

The new hotel is going to be part of a huge development known as PalaisQuartier leisure and retail which is set to boost the cities holiday and city break visitors along with providing business services for those who are holding business meetings in the city.

The Dubai hotel group Jumeirah also enjoyed a recent publicity boost which further heightened its public profile with holiday makers when it revealed its new Presidential Suite at New York City’s Essex House hotel.

Jumeirah Frankfurt is set to open in the centre of Frankfurt city in the area of Thurn-und-Taxis Platz during the summer of 2010 and will have 219 guest bedrooms, spas, restaurants and business facilities.

Executive Chairman, Gerald Lawless of the Dubai Jumeirah hotel group said:

“We are delighted to be entering the German market with such a prestigious and high profile property and look forward to bringing the luxury and quality that so many German visitors to Dubai have experienced with Jumeirah right to their doorsteps.”