DUBAI (AFP) - Despite the crisis, Dubai on Thursday inaugurated a new luxury hotel with a fabulous party that cost $ 20 million, to be attended by more than 2,000 distinguished guests from whole, including the actor Robert De Niro and U.S. television presenter Oprah Winfrey.
Described by the press as "the party of the decade", the opening of the new hotel on the island-shaped artificial palm of the emirate also provides for a fireworks display, billed as "seven times greater than that of the ceremony Opening of the Olympic Games Beijing.
"We built something special and you have to tell the world," he told AFP in an interview with Sol Kerzner, the South African hospitality magnate, who built the new hotel and organizer of the festival, which will spend $ 20 million (16 million euros).
The hotel, named 'Atlantis, The Palm', is a luxury establishment was built in collaboration with the Dubai company Najeel at a cost of $ 1,500 million.
Najeel is a real estate developer controlled by the emirate and in the past and made some of Dubai's most grandiose projects, like the three artificial islands shaped like palm.
Kerzner, 73, made his fortune in the 70 and 80 under construction in South Africa hotels and casinos, including the famous Sun City in the territory of black stocks to which the apartheid regime "gave a false autonomy.
Your new hotel shows a preference for mammoth projects of Jewish businessman, taste shared by the Muslim authorities of the emirate.
The 'Atlantis, The Palm' has 1,539 rooms and is comprised of two towers linked by a pinkish color bridge that houses a suite, which costs $ 35,000 per night.
addition, the hotel has the largest water park in the Middle East and a giant aquarium of 11 million liters of water and 65,000 fish, including a whale.
His only black spot, which was devised in an era in which nobody could have foreseen the current financial and economic crisis.
"We do not know how much you need the global economy to take off again" but "I am optimistic about the future of the hotel, said Kerzner, stipulating that the facility has been designed" in the medium and long term. "
In Dubai, as in the rest of the Gulf, most tourists come from Europe, particularly Britain, which is one of the countries most affected by the crisis, which threatens to have a direct impact on the 'Atlantis The Palm '.
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