Dubai tourism chief anticipates the development of the sail ship industry and additional display will support in filling the 10,000 hotel rooms, to be supplemented to the emirate's hospitality marketplace this year.

The Department of Dubai Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DTCM) expressed that it might as well aiming on executing new hotel categorization arrangement declared previous year.

According to Eyad Ali Abdul Rahman, a spokesman for DTCM, the year 2011 is anticipated to better 2010 by mounting the figures of hotel rooms, tourists, hotels, and contribution in worldwide exhibitions and meetings, as well to increase the consciousness of Dubai overseas.

Tourism unswervingly explains for approximately 19 per cent of the emirate's GDP. The figure of hotel rooms and hotel apartment rooms augmented in the initial three quarters of preceding year to 68,654 rooms from 59,372 in the similar period the year prior to it, as per the DTCM.

Hoteliers have articulated a few concerns that the rise in rooms might denote business over the summer, the low down season in Dubai, might be very sluggish this year.