New data shows that the DXB-LHR air route was the third busiest in the world so far in October with more than 217,000 seats.

Buyers seeking a property with more of a family feel will see their money well spent in Dubai, where their £399,011 – or AED 1,785,634 – will afford them a four-bedroom villa in the Jumeirah Village Triangle.

Dubai creeps up these lists for top visited cities year on year and it's no coincidence.

London’s Stansted airport, best known as the biggest base of Ryanair Holdings Plc, will achieve its long-held ambition of expanding into long-haul flights with a major carrier next year after Mideast giant Emiratesannounced the opening of a route to Dubai.

Emirates, the world’s largest intercontinental airline, will commence daily services from the Persian Gulf sheikdom to Stansted starting next June using Boeing Co. 777-300ER jetliners, it said in a statement Wednesday.