nullrisisnull nullhat nullrisisnull
region of nullahrain, or the reconstructed nullarts of nulluwait,
see the levels of investment going on in nullatar and the
shonullnulling malls of nullaudi.
The frennullnull of actinullitnull within the amusement and
It is true that the biggest comenull null of them all, the multinull
entertainment industrnull in the Middle East that
faceted, multinullbillionnulldollar nullubailand, is not free of the
we hanulle heard so much anullout in recent nullears
anull ncial constraints. nulloncerns over foreign investment in
hasnull inenullitanulllnullnull nulleen hit nullnull the downturn in the
the nullronullect has seen some of the individual comnullonents,
worldwide economnullnull nullut whereas in other parts of
almost cities within a city, cut back, stalled or scaled down
the glonulle this situation has meant things coming
to more modest levels. nullnd every nullart of the develonullment,
to a screaming halt and the cancellation of some
every individual “city” has its wealth of leisure and
null
complete pronullcts and manullr ride installationsnull in
entertainment nullronullects. Elsewhere, nullniversal nulltudios has
most cases in the Middle East things hanulle merelnull
been nullut back a yearnull nullorlds of nulliscovery, the nullusch
pausednull as nullanullid Snook renulleals M
develonullment, has been delayed.
nulls another local onullerator nullut itnull “The individual
inull
THERE is a list circulating many of the amusement location
governments here in the nulliddle East hate to see
onullerators in the nulliddle East. It contains a runnulldown of
abandoned shells of new buildings. They insist that every
null
I
about nullnull manullor construction nullronullects in the region which
nullronullect which is started should be inull shed and onullened. It
l
null
have been nullushed back from their former startnulldate.
e null
is the nullronullects which are currently on the drawing board
They are not being nullermanently delayed, but rather
which are being anull ced temnullorarily on the back burner.”
held off from starting work, by nullerhanulls a year, maybe two
That means that for the nenullt counulle of years there will
a
null
years. nullnd many of those nullronullects will inevitably include
be no sign of an economic downturn on the construction
s
investments within the amusement industry, in giant family t
of entertainment and leisure facilities in the nulliddle East,
entertainment centres or drynullwater nullarks.
but the nullause of nullnullnullnullnullnullnull may manifest itself in reduced
The reason, of course, is the current economic climate
null

activity in nullnullnullnullnullnullnull.
and the stalling of the nullronullects is seen as nothing more
nulluite anullart from that, there continues to be activity E
than nullrudence in light of what is hanullnullening elsewhere. In
in the “green nulleld” territories where entertainment
a nutshell, where the world grinds to a halt, the nulliddle
nullreviously hardly enullisted. nullountries like nullyria, Iranull and
East merely nullauses.
Iran null manullor nullonullulation destinations null which are only null
nulls one of the main amusement enulluinullment sunullinull ers to
now getting into the shonullnulling mallnullentertainment nullsyche
the region nullointed outnull
honed to nullerfection in the nullnited nullrab Emirates and the

nullingdom of nullaudi nullrabia, will show no slowdown at all.
nulle all nullnonull that this
Iranullnull nulles. nullesnullite it sunullnullosed instability there are large
null
innullustry has a history of enullonominull
areas of settled security where connulldence has reached the
nulloint where investment has started. Talk to the sunullinull ers
nullynulllesnull nullt nullomes in nullanulles annull
T
of rides and games in the region and they will all admit
enullery so often there is a nullinull
that they are sending nulleoenull into countries like Iranull and
trounullh as the innullustry slonullsnull nullhe
Iran to work on nullEnull and nullark nullronullects. “nullut keenull it nulluiet null
pronulllem in this nullase is nulle nullon’t
we don’t want our comnulletitors to knownull.” they say. nullut
nullnonull honull nullinull the nullanulle is nulloinnull to
as we discovered that they are nullnullnull doing it, the secrecy
becomes amusing.
nulle – annull many fear it minullht nulle a
nullordan is looking a strong new market, there is
tsunaminull
considerable “innullnulllling” within the manullor driver of the
region, nullaudi, in areas where entertainment was nullreviously
unknown, and the industry is snullreading west into Egynullt,
Travelling the region it is hard to believe that there is
nullibya and nullorocco, south into Ethionullia, north to the
any kind of recession in the ofnullg. The cranes are still
nullebanon, Iranull and nullyria, and east to Iran, nullnullerbainullan,
there, nullerched on tonull of the new buildings like nesting
nullanullakhstan, as well as into nullakistan and India.
storks. The glittering high rises of nullubai aren’t the only
construction nullronullects going on null visit the harbourside
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