<h2 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 6px; border: 0px; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 47, 109);">Dubai set to break records</h2><p><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">Dubai: Dubais cruise season, which began in late October, is on track to break records.</span><br style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"><br style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">Dubai Cruise Tourism reckons there will be a total of 110 cruiseship calls carrying more than 381,000 passengers arriving over the next seven months. Passenger numbers are set to rise by 19% on the 2013/2014 season.</span><br style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"><br style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">One of the highlights of the season will be the upcoming opening of an additional new 27,000 sq m terminal at Mina Rashid later this season.</span><br style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"><br style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;">Hamad bin Mejren, executive director of Dubai Tourism said: "We have set ambitious growth targets for cruise as part of our Dubai Tourism Vision for 2020 as we aim to become the worlds leading destination for family tourism. Not only are we actively seeking to increase the volume of cruise travellers from the traditional source markets of North America and Western Europe, but we are also looking to attract first time global cruise travellers from China and the Far East, as well as India and the sub-continent. We also believe there is a real opportunity to grow intra-regional cruise tourism with our GCC neighbours which is why we expect to welcome 450,000 annual cruise tourists by 2016 and to record continued, sustainable growth into 2020 and beyond."&nbsp; [24/11/14]</span><br></p><p><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"></span><br></p>