Modest plans include 31 hotels, including the world's biggest with a mere 6,500 rooms. Book ahead to avoid disappointment

Dubai's reputation for grandiose plans continues with the launch of the £15.4bn 'Bawadi' hospitality and tourist development which claims will host the greatest concentration of hotels anywhere in the world. There will be 31 of them, with a quarter being five star, two thirds four star and the rest a with a mere three. The hotels are to meet a predicted more than doubling of tourists to the emirate, from 6.1 million last year to 15 million in 2010.

The centrepiece will be Asia-Asia, the world's biggest hotel which will include 6,500 rooms - how many cleaners will this one need? The complex will be 10 kilometres long and is expected to host 3.3 million guests by 2016. The scheme is to be developed by Dubai Holding arm Tatweer.

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QS News