A foreign worker stacks fish traps near the Burj al Arab-world's tallest hotel and icon of the new Dubai.

一名外国籍工人在世界最高旅店阿拉伯塔，迪拜的新地标附近搬运捕鱼工具。

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Dubai, which built the world's tallest building, palm-shaped islands with hotels and the world's first seven-star hotel, has thousands of empty hotel rooms and visitor levels are stagnant.

迪拜建有全球最高的建筑、建有酒店的棕榈岛以及全球的第一家七星级酒店，却经常有数千间的酒店客房是空置的，游客数量也遭遇瓶颈。

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Armani Group in April opened Armani Hotel Dubai in Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building.

今年4月，阿玛尼集团在哈利法迪拜塔建立阿玛尼迪拜酒店，为世界上最高的建筑物。

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Into its Luxembourg-sized patch of beach and desert, Dubai has already packed such attractions as the world's largest man-made port, its tallest and most luxurious hotel, its most capacious-ever shopping bag (certified by Guinness), and some of the flashiest events on funsters' racing and golfing calendars.

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People now have more money to spend, and some of them go to the new Shangri-La-run hotel at the top of the China World Tower, Beijing's tallest building.

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The Mecca Clock Royal Tower Hotel, with more than 800 rooms, occupies what will soon be the world's second-tallest building, a structure incorporating the world's biggest clock, with faces at least six times the size of Big Ben's, and capped by a spire topped with a golden crescent.

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