Guided by the ambitious Dubai Strategic Plan 2015, the emirate is looking to grow its GDP by 11% a year in real terms over the next eight years.The plan identifies six key industries to drive this growth, including travel and tourism and transport and logistic services. DWC will play a central role in both areas.rnIt's a mouthful, but aerotropolis is the name for a growing urban form that features aviation-oriented businesses around an airport and adjacent transportation corridors. They are being built around the world, but there is little doubt that five or ten years from now, when the world thinks of the quintessential aerotropolis, they will think of Dubai World Central (DWC).rnThis city twice the size of Hong Kong, located adjacent to the Jebel Ali Port and Free Zone at the edge of Dubai, is the largest and only such district to link port, road and air facilities in a single bonded zone.
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