Dubai voted world’s best destination for holidaymakers: Top 8 reasons why tourists love the city

Dubai voted world’s best destination for holidaymakers: Top 8 reasons why tourists love the city

Visitors hail the infrastructure, safety and the extremely kind and professional people they meet in the emirate

Published: Thu 19 Jan 2023, 6:56 PM

For star-crossed lovers Divesh and Emmy, Dubai was the perfect place to meet. Hungarian national Emmy and Divesh, from Mauritius, found it very convenient to come to the city to meet each other. “Rather than one of us travelling half the world to each other, Dubai was a central place for us to travel to,” said the young couple. “We have done many touristy things in the last three days. Tomorrow we are going out for a desert safari. We love it here."

Every tourist to the city has reasons to fall in love with Dubai. On Wednesday, the Tripadvisor Travellers’ Choice Awards ranked Dubai as the best destination for holidaymakers in the world for 2023 — for the second year in a row. The top cities were chosen based on the reviews of millions of travellers that were submitted on Tripadvisor’s website from November 1, 2021, to October 31, 2022.

Khaleej Times caught up with four tourists in the city- some who were here for the first while others were seasonal visitors- and asked them why they loved coming