Abu Dhabi is having ‘a moment’. Visit the city, the capital of the UAE, in 2024 and you’ll see a skyline punctuated with cranes and hi-rises shooting up like exclamation marks. This is a city in rapid development. In fact, the Abu Dhabi Projects and Infrastructure Centre (ADPIC) has recently announced that the Abu Dhabi Executive Council has approved the launch of 144 future projects across Abu Dhabi. “These were approved with a total budget of around AED66 billion (US$180 billion) and will span various sectors, including housing and quality of life, education and human capital, tourism, and natural resources.”
This advancement of the destination’s infrastructure is having a huge knock-on effect on the hospitality industry, with investors and developers clamouring over themselves to have a stake in what is being labelled the ‘next Dubai’. With a line-up of big-name openings on the horizon, it is clear that the Emirate is hoping to carve out a name for itself as the…
