Wealthy Chinese are flocking to buy luxury goods in Dubai

Middle East

With great care, take Chinese Xiao Tiang bag of the brand «Louis Vuitton» Assistant Sales of wearing gloves, you have been examined by slowly pointing to her partner in the shopping and design to the lining of the bag. Shopping tops the agenda of luxury brands Tiang visiting Dubai for the second time.

Says Tiang, aged 32, by shopping with her sister in «Dubai Mall», the largest shopping center in the region: «is the imposition of taxes on luxury goods in China, and in some cases are being sold counterfeit goods of good supermarkets, while in the Dubai, luxury goods may be cheaper, as well as we do not worry about the issue of counterfeit goods.Worth it to travel here, as the shopping here is cheaper than Paris ».

The Tiang rotate in the corridor in front of a busy referred for, pointing to her knee-high look of the brand «Christian Louboutin» and her dress color of the brand «Missoni». The growing influx of shoppers Chinese, who had their presence in Dubai rarely since the simple, the business centers in Dubai, where to buy Chinese tourists about 25 percent of luxury goods sold in the «Mall of the Emirates», according to Iyad Malas, CEO «MajidAl Futtaim », which owns 11 centers shopping in the Middle East, including the« Mall of the Emirates », which is famous for skiing hall interior containing a ski slope., About 214.000 Chinese tourists visited Dubai last year, a figure that is up to 9 times the number of Chinese visitors in the last decade, which amounted to 25.000, according to data released by the company «Jones Lang LaSalle» specialized in hotels and real estate. The number of Chinese tourists in Dubai by 50 per cent in the last year alone, which raises the interesting retailers.Ferla says Lewis, Managing Director of «Cartier» in Dubai: «We have a combination of sales representatives who belong to different nationalities in our stores, which enables us to provide better service for visitors to Dubai, including the Chinese travelers».Start luxury brands in Dubai, such as «Dior» and «Chanel» and «Cartier» and «Louis Vuitton», to meet the needs of Chinese consumers more, says a spokesman for «Cartier» The customers' purchases of Chinese accounted for «large» of Total sales «Cartier».