1.27 million British people visited Dubai last year helping the city’s international visitor numbers grow to a new record as we inch closer to achieving a target ofwelcoming 20 million travellers annually by 2020
Many of those visitors arrive at the busiest international airport in the world but then leave immediately for Ras Al Khaimah (RAK), the fourth largest emirate in the UAE, who reported a growth of 19 percent in the overall number of tourists in 2017.
RAK is well on the way to welcoming One Million visitors by the end of this year, and you may be surprised to learn that half of those tourists are ex-pats and nationals living in the UAE. The hotels are often fully booked on the weekends, and there is a healthy demand for both temporary and permanent holiday homes from residents and their families looking to escape the city at weekends and during the school holidays.
Ras Al Khaimah is the perfect beach and desert escape, but with the recent opening of a world record-breaking zip line suspended 1,680 metres in the sky and reaching speeds close to 150 kilometres per hour, it is now the ‘go-to’ destination for adrenaline junkies in the Middle East.
