Dubai Shopping Festival started on February 15, 1996 as a retail event intended to revitalise retail trade in Dubai. It has since been promoted as an tourist attraction. This yearly month long event is usually scheduled during the first quarter of the year. Image File history File links Dubai_shopping_festival_logo. ... February 15 is the 46th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... In commerce, a retailer buys goods or products in large quantities from manufacturers or importers, either directly or through a wholesaler, and then sells individual items or small quantities to the general public or end user customers, usually in a shop, also called store. ... Coordinates: Emirate Dubai Government  - Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Area [1]  - Metro 4,114 km² (1,588. ... A tourist attraction is a place of interest where tourists visit. ...

During Dubai Shopping Festival shops offer deep discounts on their merchandise, daily car raffles are drawn, and fireworks light Dubai’s night sky. Tourists from all around the world are lured not only for Dubai's tax free shopping, but also for all of the events that take place during the festival.

This year's festival will be hosted from 20 December 2006 to 2 February 2007. In 2005, the festival was cancelled due to the death of Dubai's ruler, Sheikh Maktoum Bin Rashid Al Maktoum.

In addition to Dubai Shopping Festival, Dubai also hosts Dubai Summer Surprises. It is held in Dubai. Modesh the mascot of Dubai Summer Surprises. ...

When a country wants to grow its reputation far and wide, one of the ways it can opt to do so is by inviting people from all around, make them as happy as any country can, sent them back and 'let them talk their experience to the ones they know' this has been a way of growth for nearly all the famous port cities around the world, this has been the way of the largest and most celebrated empires all over history and this is exactly what is the purpose of the Dubai Shopping Festival, Dubai shopping festival was developed with this objective in mind, so that people around the world gets to hear of dubai, there are many rich arab states all over middle east, but none as famous as dubai, when someone speacks of the middle east, or of the arab culture, or of arabian peninsula - everybody memory brings up a name Dubai - the city of gold, if this doesnt come up first, then it definitely comes up second after the islamic holy shrine of mekka.

Dubai - lovingly also called city of gold, the city of gold concept was coined during one of the Dubai Shopping Festival awareness campaigns, first in 1996, Dubai invited everyone from all around the world to their annual festival the dubai shopping festival, they came up with the novel idea of a global village, a shopping village was concieved with all nations participating with their wares and styles in the traditional ways, the immigrant expat population and the fly in visitors rejoiced in the celebration that took place and the promise was given that from then on every year dubai will host a festival for people from all around the world - what better way is there than this to show the warmth of a nation to the rest of the world. The years that followed brought in more visitors more exhibitors and now the stage was set to build on the reputation of hospitality.

Dubai shopping festival made the world aware of a city called Dubai, Dubai shopping festival was segregated into many major attractions all with one purpose, to have as many ways of entertaining the guests to the city, and catering to each and every individual segment's visiting from around the world, the loyalty of the local expatriate populations definitely finds a reason to become even more attached to the city that brings to them their own culture every year. Dubai shopping festival is an example apart on how a nation can enhance tenfolds its beauty and strength by being warm and loving to the guests who set foot on its soil.