The economic role of sustainable tourism in the United Arab Emirates, (A Study in Economic Geography)

The countries that aim to achieve sustainable development, seeks to develop and revitalize the tourism sector, because of its potential economic and social development, and the attention to tourism as an emitter on sustainable development, is a requirement for economically important, to stimulate investment in natural attractions, environmental and cultural. Research deals with the economic role of sustainable tourism, applied to the United Arab Emirates, and the importance of research lies in the fact that the tourism sector could become developmentally effective alternative in many Arab countries, and aims to identify: concepts related to tourism and tourism development; and the importance of tourism in raising growth rates, stand on the reality of the contribution of tourism to the economic development issues, and to identify the development strategies of the sectors of tourism accredited to activate them in the future. Search follows the descriptive approach, which consists in the presentation of tourist attractions in the UAE, which represents an important tourist attraction, and analytical approach to the inclusion of the factors that help the tourism boom in the UAE, and the role of tourism in development.