Doha City Guide
Over the last few decades the most ostentatious display of this wealth has come in the form of gleaming new skyscrapers and office blocks, but now the government is starting to look to the long term when the oil reserves dry up. In short, though the city's tourist officials may deny it, Doha is trying to ‘do a Dubai' by reinventing itself as a major global tourist destination with hotels, restaurants and purpose-built tourist attractions to match. Billions of dollars are being poured into a new airport, the impressive new ‘The Pearl' artificial offshore island development, the rapidly expanding state airline Qatar Airways and other tourist-orientated developments.
There is now plenty for tourists as well as business people to enjoy, with a sprinkling of historical attractions in the city as well as out of town dune bashing tours and dhow cruises. It may not yet be on the same scale as Dubai, but Qatar and Doha are thinking big. The successful staging of the Asian Games in 2006 enhanced Doha's reputation as a can-do city and the hosting of such a large and prestigious event was very much a statement of both ambition and intent.
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