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Thu, 02 Sep 2004
The Palm [/World]
It's been featured on Pilot Guides (fka Lonely Planet) and I just came from watching a journalistic piece on it on TV5. The Palm Islands is a resort built on a man-made island in Dubai. A giant resort in the shape of a palm tree, protected by a kind of circular jetty. Visible from space, it's already being called the eighth wonder of the world.
This, Dubai hopes, will help continue to power an economy turning to tourism in anticipation of its oil wells drying up. You can't help but be awestruck by the sheer enormity of such a project.... And in case you're wondering, the website has a Canadian domain because the company's international office is based in Halifax.
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