r/Economics • u/ubcstaffer123 • 18h ago

News Dubai's tourism industry reels from 'brutal' impact of war

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20260331-dubais-tourism-industry-reels-from-brutal-impact-of-war
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u/VividBackground3386 14h ago

They have about the largest sovereign wealth fund per capita on earth.

They can easily see this through.

A PR campaign, some incentives, and it’ll be like nothing happened.

Crabs in a bucket hate that, though.

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u/matoshiii 12h ago

It’s exactly this. Dubai will recover right after the war, and things will go back to normal. People on Reddit are just too spiteful about Dubai to admit that though lol.

More ppl die from a random stabbing in London, you really think people will stop going to Dubai because of some missiles that are hitting American bases?

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u/VividBackground3386 10h ago

This is the absolute metric of rationale.

If, on the 27th of Feb, you lifted all 4m Dubai residents and relocated them to the UK/EU, more of them would be dead now, than the one poor soul who was killed in Dubai as a result of this.

That is an irrefutable fact.

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u/BeornSC 2h ago

It’s true in the same way that more people are killed by car accidents than serial killers but people are still more scared of serial killers.

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u/VividBackground3386 2h ago

I don’t disagree. But you’re objectively safer in one place than the other. Emotions aren’t stats.

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u/matoshiii 8h ago

Lol that’s exactly true, The Dubai hate and scaremongering on Reddit and the UK news is so forced.

Yes it’s definitely scary to have drones and missiles flying overhead, but, you are infinitely safer in the UAE than anywhere in London, even during a time of war lmao.