Top Arab Cities 2010
By Trends • Jun 1st, 2010Top Arab Cities in Entertainment & Culture
For the fourth year in a row, Dubai maintained the lead as Top Arab City in entertainmentand culture thanks to the large number of leisure activities on offer. Throughout the year it also hosts a wide array of sports and cultural events, in addition to conferences and specialized world exhibitions.
Abu Dhabi ranked second and is standing out as a new world tourism destination with a unique infrastructure and large amounts of money invested in tourism development. It has also recently stood out in implementing international cultural projects and has hosted international sports competitions.
Manama ranked third while ranking fourth in the index of competitiveness in tourism and travel as the average of hotel rooms for every one hundred persons reached 0.9. Tunis embraced more than 26 world cultural heritage sites and accommodated the highest number of hotel rooms among Arab countries, thus ranking fourth in this sector followed by Qatar which ranked fifth.
Beirut ranked sixth and Cairo ranked seventh followed by Alexandria, Muscat and Casablanca, which ranked first among Arab cities in view of its world cultural heritage sites. However, it did not score high in the index of price competitiveness in the sector of tourism and travel.
Jeddah ranked 11th followed by Amman, Rabbat, Riyadh, Kuwait, and then Damascus in 16th position.
The last positions were held by Aleppo, Algiers and Khartoum which scored low in all indexes except for price competitiveness where it held the second position among Arab cities.
