Marrakech , Morocco

 Marrakech known as the Red City or ocher City is a city in Morocco, in the interior, at the foot of the Atlas Mountains.

The city was founded in 1071 by Youssef Ibn Tachfin, head of the Berber Almoravid empire. In the past, Morocco was known in the East as the Marrakech (name still current in Iran); the name comes from Morocco itself from the deformation of the Portuguese pronunciation of Marrakech Marrocos.

This is Morocco's fourth largest city after Casablanca, Fez and Meknes. The city is divided into two distinct parts: the medina or historic (ten kilometers pregnant) and the new city whose principal districts are called Gueliz and Hivernage, Askar Douar Sidi Youssef Ben Ali, M'hamid Daoudiat.

Guéliz is now the commercial city center. It was founded by the French during the Protectorate. The Hivernage contains many hotel complexes. In recent years, the city expanded in the periphery, especially to the west with the appearance of new residential neighborhoods like the Targa region and the extension of the Mohammed VI Avenue or north Tamansourt.


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Tourism
The city is a tourist mecca, more than two million tourists each year. It is also the starting point for many excursions for hikers willing to browse the Atlas or the desert to the south.

Also, the city has become a favorite destination of "dental tourism" since the quality of dental care has increased dramatically in recent years as their cost is relatively low.

The city is now focusing on luxury tourism. Marrakech has indeed become a favorite destination for French celebrities who love her very well preserved charm which combines luxury, refinement and authenticity.

The city has been described as a "dream Miles-one nights" by Arielle Dombasle which invests in France to raise awareness of this city of the French. Many French stars have already bought their private riad in the heart of the Medina.

The appearance of this luxury tourism dates back to 1967 with the arrival of Yves Saint Laurent in Marrakech and its acquisition in 1980 of Majorelle Garden. Marrakech becomes a place renowned for its culture, arts, traditions and architectural heritage that gradually attracted many famous artists. However, it is only since the 2000s that tourism has grown considerably.

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Dubai , United Arab Emirates

Dubai is the most populous city in the United Arab Emirates (before the federal capital Abu Dhabi). Located on the Persian Gulf, is the capital of the emirate of Dubai, and has over one million inhabitants (however, with the cities of Sharjah, Ajman and Umm al-Quwain, themselves capitals of their respective emirates, it forms a conurbation that exceeds 2.3 million in 2010). Dubai is also the first port in the country.

Founded in the eighteenth century, Dubai remains a small, isolated town in the world that lives mainly pearl fishing in the late nineteenth century. At that time, as the emirate around it, they become important by participating in the creation of the Trucial States (Trucial States in English) in 1853.

Through a difficult period between the two world wars, before entering full force into modernity in the second half of the twentieth century, Dubai participated in the creation of the current UAE in 1971 including the Emir is vice -présidence.

Although not the capital of the UAE, Dubai has become the most populous city of the federation.
This reputation is mainly due to the media coverage of its tourism projects such as the Burj Al Arab,

the most luxurious and most "star" of the world, the gigantic building projects such as Palm Islands, artificial peninsula shaped Palm, The World, artificial archipelago that replicates the map of the world, the Dubai Marina and disproportionate to the particular architecture, not to mention the tallest building in the world Burj Khalifa.

These projects claimed by the government, are presented as a way to become in a few years the world's leading destination for luxury tourism and become one of the world centers of family tourism, business, shopping, etc.

Tourism and retail

The Dubai Mall is the largest mall in the world

Dubai Creek, which separates Deira from Bur Dubai, played a vital role in the economic development of the city

Tourism is an important part of the Dubai government's strategy to maintain the flow of foreign cash into the emirate. Dubai's lure for tourists is based mainly on shopping, but also on its possession of other ancient and modern attractions. As of 2013, Dubai was the 7th most visited city of the world based on air traffic and the fastest growing, increasing by a 10.7% rate. Dubai is expected to accommodate over 15 million tourists by 2015. The emirate is also the most populous of the seven emirates of the United Arab Emirates.

Dubai has been called the "shopping capital of the Middle East". Dubai alone has more than 70 shopping centres, including the world's largest shopping centre, Dubai Mall.

Dubai is also known for the traditional souk districts located on either side of the stream. Traditionally, dhows from East Asia, China, Sri Lanka, and India would discharge their cargo and the goods would be bargained over in the souks adjacent to the docks. Dubai Creek played a vital role in the sustainment of life of the community in Dubai originally and was the setting point which caused the economic boom in Dubai. As of September 2013, Dubai creek has been proposed as UNESCO World Heritage Site. Many boutiques and jewellery stores are also found in the city. Dubai is also known as "the City of Gold" as Gold Souk in Deira houses nearly 250 gold retail shops.

Shopping
Dubai is one of the world's capitals shopping and is internationally renowned for its huge malls and popular souks. Shopping in Dubai is one of the favorite pastimes of tourists.

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The city attracts many visitors who want to shop, they come from neighboring or other countries further afield, such as Eastern Europe, Africa and the Indian subcontinent.


Every year for a month, Dubai lives at the time of the carnival while the Shopping Festival is held in the city. Founded in 1996 by the government, the shopping festival was intended to be just an event to promote trade in the emirate. But over the years, it has become a cultural event during which various shows and events take place. The good weather, the many festivities, fireworks and sales are among its strengths, but it's around the kitsch environment Global Village which is the most fun. Here one can choose between Chinese opera and whirling dervishes, while enjoying Bavarian cuisine before buying Tunisian pottery. Stores display exceptional balances on all their products in more than 40 shopping centers scattered throughout the city. In 2009 the festival took place from 15 January to 15 February.


The many shopping malls in Dubai are all extravagant than the other. Modern and luxurious, their decor is neat and refined. Their "progress" plants, with fountains or souvenir carts, strive to evoke village squares. Buyers can move to a coffe shop between two or lunch in one of the restaurants. It includes absolutely everything and no need to get out of restaurants, beauty salons and fitness, amusement parks, skating rink, cinema, ski slope, prayer rooms, parking lots, etc., are there to satisfy all desires.

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ROMA , Italy

Rome is the capital of Italy since 1871. Located in the center-west of the Italian peninsula, on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea, it is also the capital of the province of Rome, Lazio Region, and was that of the Roman Empire for several centuries.

In 2014, it has 2,869,461 inhabitants established on 1285 km², making it the most populous municipality in Italy and Europe of the largest after Moscow and London1. Its urban area. It also has the distinction of holding a landlocked state in its territory: the Vatican City (Città del Vaticano), the Pope is the sovereign.

The Rome history spans more than twenty-eight centuries since its mythical foundation by Romulus in 753 BC until his current role as capital of the Italian Republic.


During that time, Rome would have had between one and two million people and dominates Europe, North Africa and the Middle East both militarily and culturally, broadcasting in these territories the Latin language, arts and techniques as well the Christian religion. Since the first century, it is the seat of the Roman Catholic Church, in the Papal States (752-1870) and the Vatican City.

Considerably enlarged by great works under Julius Caesar and especially under Augustus, the city was partially destroyed in the Great Fire of Rome - Circus Maximus in particular. From the fifteenth century, almost all the popes since Nicolas V (1447-1455) continued the tradition of Roman architecture and ambition to make Rome the main cultural and artistic center of the West. The city became one of the centers of the Italian Renaissance, along with Florence and Venice, and gave birth to Baroque - which still reflects its historic center, classified by UNESCO as a heritage site worldwide.

Artists such as Michelangelo, Raphael and Bernini settled there and produce works such as St. Peter's Basilica, the Sistine Chapel and Raphael's Rooms. In the nineteenth century, Rome is a symbol of Italian unity and became the capital of the Kingdom of Italy and the Republic at the end of the Second World War.

Global city, Rome is the third most visited tourist destination in Europe after London and Paris5. The Vatican Museums and the Colosseum are amongst the most frequented sites. Rome also has many bridges and fountains, 900 churches, and a large number of museums and universities.

Besides tourism, the economy of the city is also facing new technologies, media and telecommunications since 2000. Surrounded by seven hills, the city lies at the mouth of the Tiber and is divided into twenty-two rioni. Rome also hosted the Summer Olympics in 1960.

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PARIS

 Paris is the capital of France. It lies at the heart of a vast fertile plain temperate climate, the Paris Basin, on a loop of the Seine, between the confluence of the latter with the Marne and Oise. Its inhabitants are called Parisians.
Paris is also the capital of the Île-de-France and the French town unique that is also a department. As the cities of Lyon and Marseille, it is divided into districts (twenty in number). It has a police chief.

Most populous city a long time in Europe, it remains the most populous in France. According to the census of Inseeb 1

It is one of the most populated cities in Europe.

The position of Paris, on an island to cross the great navigable river that is the Seine by a route connecting the north and south of Gaul, in fact since ancient times an important city, capital of the Parisii, and place of residence of an emperor. Its position in the center of the territory controlled by the Franks choose as kings makes capital of France instead of Tournai. Placed at the center of a fertile agricultural area with a damp, mild climate, Paris became one of the main cities of France during the tenth century, with royal palaces, rich abbeys and a cathedral; in the twelfth century, with the University of Paris, the city became one of the first homes in Europe for education and the arts.

The royal power setting in this city, its economic and political importance is growing. In the early fourteenth century, Paris is one of the most important cities of the whole Christian world. In the seventeenth century, it is the capital of one of the main European political powers in the eighteenth century one of the largest cultural centers of Europe and the nineteenth century capital of arts and pleasures. Paris plays a major political and economic role in the history of Europe during the second millennium.

Symbol of French culture, with its many monuments, the city nicknamed the City of Light draws in the 2000s nearly three million visitors per year1. Paris also occupies a prominent place in the world of fashion and luxury; it is also one of the most visited capitals in the world.

"Tourism" in the modern sense, took magnitude that following the appearance of the railway, in the 1840s was one of the first attractions, in 1855, the series universal exhibitions, many opportunities to build in Paris many new monuments, the most famous is the Eiffel Tower, built for the 1889 Exposition These, in addition to the embellishments made to the capital under the Second Empire, have contributed to make the city itself the attraction it is today.

But if Paris is the most visited city in the world, it is considered as one of the least hospitable and most expensive: according to a enquête192 sixty cities with 14,000 people across the monde193, it is located first place for the beauty and dynamism, but in the end classification regarding the quality of care (52 of 60) and the prices (only 55e194). To improve the reception of tourists and break this bad reputation, residents, members of the greeter network and falling in the wake of the participatory tourism, welcome every year more and more visitors for free rides to discover Paris and parisiens195.

The Paris region receives about 42 million tourists per an196 and central Paris about 32 million in 2013 of which approximately 15.5 million étrangers197, making it the most visited city in monde198,196. It is also one of the cities hosting the most internationaux199 congress. In 2009, the first fifty cultural sites in the city recorded 71.6 million entries in 2010, a figure slightly higher than in 2008.

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Cardiff

Cardiff is the capital and largest city in Wales and the tenth largest city in the United Kingdom. The city is the country's chief commercial centre, the base for most national cultural and sporting institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of the National Assembly for Wales.

Cardiff is a significant tourist centre and the most popular visitor destination in Wales with 18.3 million visitors in 2010.

 Cardiff was ranked sixth in the world in National Geographic's alternative tourist destinations.

The city of Cardiff is the county town of the historic county of Glamorgan (and later South Glamorgan). Cardiff is part of the Eurocities network of the largest European cities.

 The Cardiff Urban Area covers a slightly larger area outside the county boundary, and includes the towns of Dinas Powys and Penarth. A small town until the early 19th century, its prominence as a major port for the transport of coal following the arrival of industry in the region contributed to its rise as a major city.

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