
•       United Arab Emirates has the fastest growing economy in the region. The UAE has an open economy with a higher per capita income output (about 33% of GDP), and the fortunes of the economy fluctuate with the prices of those commodities.
•       Since 1973, the UAE has undergone a profound transformation from an impoverished region of small desert principalities to a modern state with a high standard living.
•       At present levels of a production, oil and gas reserves should last for mores than 100 years. The government has increased spending on job creation and infrastructure expansion and is opening up its utilities to a greater private sector involvement.

•       GDP- per capita purchasing power parity- 21,100 (2001 EST)
•       Populations below poverty line none.
•       GDP-real growth rate 5.7% (2003 EST)
•       Labor Force- by occupation services 78%, industry 15%, agriculture 7% (200 EST)
•       The population is increasing at 3.4%. The age profile is quiet young, with 64% aged less than 30 years and 41% less than 20% years of age.
•       Abu Dhabi on threshold of tourism boom, the stage is all set for an unprecedented boom in tourism in the emirate of Abu Dhabi with the AED 21 billion new airport that is on the verge of completion. The project, it said, would upgrade the capacity of the airport to 50 million passengers in the long term, with phase I scheduled to be completed by 2010.

•       Abu Dhabi's commercial and tourist infrastructure is among the best in the Middle East. More than 46 airlines from all quarters of the globe land here a route between Europe and Far East. Abu Dhabi has become as much a sunny playground for holiday makers as a centre for business and investment. Luxury hotels vie with on e another to provide the most lavish facilities and absorbing entertainment.
•       The promotion of tourist and various tourism related projects will elevate Abu Dhabi to a Singaporean status in the region. Large gardens and parks, green boulevards lining all the streets and roads, sophisticated high rise buildings, state-of- the- art communication services and transport, the presence of all the international luxury hotel chains, rich shopping malls, cultural centers and events provide tourists one-of-a-kind experience all the year round.