a week of meetings and meeting people
This week has been busy.
On Sunday we had a meeting with the Managing Director of Landmark Properties, a brokerage house for various kinds of properties within Dubai. He was an American from New York, and he shared some great local knowledge on the inner workings of the property market within Dubai. That's the great thing about this job - you hear from the guys that are making this all happen. The stories are real, and they tell you what the newspapers and year-end reports don't.
On Monday we met with the Director of the Land Department of the Government of Dubai. This entity controls all the land and sea in Dubai. It's assets are over a trillion dollars, easily.
Tuesday we met with the Director of Inward trade at the DTCM - the Dubai Tourism Authority. Over cigarettes he showed us pictures of his villa on the Palm Jumeira, a sea side mansion valued at over US$4 million. He also talked about certain initiatives his authority is doing to attract not only leisurely tourists into Dubai, but tourism investors (Six Flags, Universal Studios, Dreamworks are all here) healthcare tourism (set up state of the art hospitals/surgery clinics – people from all over the world will come just for that) and sporting events among many others.. Interesting and cool guy he was.
Wednesday and tomorrow will be spent driving from office building to office building, meeting new people and arranging meeting for next week. It takes a lot of effort to arrange meetings with CEO's and Chairman's. And one day I'll tell you the story. For now, this is all I do in my spare time, and recounting here through type makes me feel like I am still at work.
The work day has to stop somewhere, doesn't it?
On Sunday we had a meeting with the Managing Director of Landmark Properties, a brokerage house for various kinds of properties within Dubai. He was an American from New York, and he shared some great local knowledge on the inner workings of the property market within Dubai. That's the great thing about this job - you hear from the guys that are making this all happen. The stories are real, and they tell you what the newspapers and year-end reports don't.
On Monday we met with the Director of the Land Department of the Government of Dubai. This entity controls all the land and sea in Dubai. It's assets are over a trillion dollars, easily.
Tuesday we met with the Director of Inward trade at the DTCM - the Dubai Tourism Authority. Over cigarettes he showed us pictures of his villa on the Palm Jumeira, a sea side mansion valued at over US$4 million. He also talked about certain initiatives his authority is doing to attract not only leisurely tourists into Dubai, but tourism investors (Six Flags, Universal Studios, Dreamworks are all here) healthcare tourism (set up state of the art hospitals/surgery clinics – people from all over the world will come just for that) and sporting events among many others.. Interesting and cool guy he was.
Wednesday and tomorrow will be spent driving from office building to office building, meeting new people and arranging meeting for next week. It takes a lot of effort to arrange meetings with CEO's and Chairman's. And one day I'll tell you the story. For now, this is all I do in my spare time, and recounting here through type makes me feel like I am still at work.
The work day has to stop somewhere, doesn't it?
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