Doha travel guide

Doha's rapid development into a commercial and entertainment hub will undoubtedly change its poor reputation as one of the world's most boring capitals.

Enormous malls, purpose-built tourist attractions, comprehensive residential developments and the mass expansion of the capital's residential and commercial property sectors, funded mostly by oil and gas money, means Doha looks, and smells, like a gargantuan construction site. However, once construction is complete, Doha may become the region's biggest tourist and business attraction.

Due to the nation's ostentatious wealth, Doha is one of the only capitals in the world to have remained relatively unscarred by the world economic crisis. Today, analysts predict Doha may surpass Dubai as the region's commercial and financial hub.