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Tour Guides

by Language Spoken

Andrea Segelmayer, German

Kiss Magdolna, Hungarian

Kristiina Mayra, Finnish

NON at the moment

CHINESE

DANISH

ENGLISH

Kristiina Mayra, Finnish

NON at the moment

FINNISH

NON at the moment

FRENCH

Andrea Segelmayer, German

NON at the moment

Ahmed Hafez

Alex Mattar

NON at the moment

ARABIC

NON at the moment

GERMAN

Kiss Magdolna, Hungarian

NON at the moment

HUNGARIAN

NON at the moment

Anna Lunghis, Italian

NON at the moment

ICELANDIC

INDIA/HINDI

ITALIAN

JAPANESE

NETHERLAND /DUTCH

NON at the moment

NORWAYGIAN

NON at the moment

PAKISTAN /

URDU

NON at the moment

RUSSIAN

NON at the moment

SPANISH

FUTURE of TOURISM in the GULF:

Imagine it is 2030… more than 150 million foreigners will travel to the Gulf. Nearly 20 million pilgrims will visit the Muslim Holy Cities of Mecca and Medina which are linked by trains travelling at up to 800 km/h. Gulf airports handle 400 million passengers a year.—The vision of the future is a work of fiction. Many would consider it to be fantasy, not a forecast.

However, since there are about 1.5 billion Muslims, all of whom are obligated if possible to complete a pilgrimage to Mecca, the potential is obvious. Saudi Arabia plans to quintuple the annual number of pilgrims by 2020.

By the fact, tourism is growing faster in the Gulf than anywhere in the word. Gulf airports are being expanded, they are being filled principally by national airlines that are growing at a startling rate. Gulf States are promoting holidaymaking, particularly from Europe, during November to April when Arabia’s weather is most pleasing.

The biggest initiative in UAE is Dubailand, a swathe of desert in Dubai that is to be converted within 20 years into the world’s largest integrated leisure resort, to attract up to 100 million visitors each year. By the start of 2008, US$ 2 trillion worth of new projects were under way in the Gulf, most of it in the Gulf SIX (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE). Source—The New Gulf by Edmund O’Sullivan

Although Arabic is also the official business language, but English is so widely used that you could conduct business here for years without learning a single word of Arabic. Most road signs, shop signs and restaurant menus are in both languages. The further out of town you go, the more use of only the Arabic language you will find, both spoken and on street and shop signs.

Source for language info—Explorer, The Complete Resident’s Guide, Dubai

LANGUAGE in UAE:

Arabic is the official language of the UAE, although English, Urdu and Hindi are commonly spoken.

Learn basic ARABIC …

Note: Learn Arabic page and links to other sources are still under construction (26/05/09).

Arabic isn’t the easiest language to pick up… or to pronounce. But if you can throw in a couple of words of Arabic here and there, you’re most likely to receive the warmer welcome or at least a smile. Even if your pronunciation is terrible.

In the mean time, let’s try few simple but important words:

GENERAL:

Yes—na’am

No—la

Please—min fadlak (m) / min fadliki (f)

Thank you—shukran

Praise be to God—al-hamdu l-illah

God willing—in shaa’a-laah

GREETINGS:

Peace be upon you—as-salaamu alaykom (REPLY) - wa alaykom is salaam

Hello—marhaba (REPLY) - marhabtayn

How are you? - kayf haalak (m) / keyf haalik (f)

Goodbye—ma is-salama