The first of its kind visa is offered to creative people in various industries.

Expats love the quality of life and ease of settling in.

Emirate offers immense opportunities for a successful career.

It beat out other major international capitals including Paris, Sydney and Tokyo

A new study has ranked Dubai amongst the top 10 most attractive cities in the world for expatriates looking to work abroad.

The Decoding Global Talent 2018 study, conducted by The Boston Consulting Group and The Network placed the emirate sixth, with up to 12 per cent of those who took the survey willing to make the move to Dubai for work. This put it only marginally behind other major capitals in the top 5 including Barcelona, Berlin and Amsterdam.

In November 2017, the magificent, spotted Louvre Abu Dhabi finally opened. The museum has courted controversy from the get-go, not least because the Abu Dhabi government has reportedly leased the iconic French brand for the enormous sum of €400m for 30 years.

To those following the cultural development of the region, however, the expenditure is no surprise. Abu Dhabi is following in the footsteps of Dubai – a city experienced at planting Western cultural cuttings into its Middle Eastern soil.