One of the world's most successful business venture is a small city-state that learned lessons from Singapore and Hong Kong.A TROPICAL sun sets behind the palm trees and white sand of Jumeirah beach. Here, machines are building house one of the world's largest man-made islands, designed in the shape of a palm tree (pictured). England's soccer stars, led by David Beckham, were among the early buyer when the 2,000 villas sold out in a week.Dubai expects its oil reserves to run out in about ten years. But the city-state is using its oil income to invest in a different sort of future, replacing oil with people.Today Dubai has 277 hotels with 30,000 rooms and almost 5 million foreign visitors a year. In the desert, Dubailand is being built-a $19-billion theme park twice the size of Disneyworld in Florida.The city-state has built huge tax-free shopping malls and launched sporting events, such as the Desert Classic golf tournament and the Dubai World Cup horse race, and so it has become a holiday destination, offering attractions such as desert safaris and dhow cruises.
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