“Don’t mention the war”: luxury hotels and attractions quietly close their doors in Dubai, thousands of workers lose jobs

Where the international jet set recently sipped from richly filled champagne glasses and wealthy tourists strolled, there is now an unreal silence. The fashionable beach clubs, star restaurants and luxury resorts are deserted. The war between the US and Iran has completely paralyzed Dubai’s tourism sector. Yet the biggest victims of these geopolitical tensions are not the sheiks or hoteliers, but the stranded migrant workers.

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