What happens to Dubai now?

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Dubai has been created as a safe, sunny, tax haven. I know about all the people out there doing good works and enjoying the lifestyle, but the state have created it to attract foreign wealth, which it's done very successfully.

Assuming this conflict isn't short lived (which historically would be a safe assumption), what happens now?

Look, Dubai is a superficially Western-friendly dictatorship, with a heavily-censored press, a dubious human rights record, a lengthening record in oppressing its own citizens who agitate for democracy, and it’s run by a maniac it’s illegal to criticise, who kidnapped two of his own daughters and is holding them under house arrest, and whose ex-wife lives in the UK in fear of her life or of her children with him being kidnapped. It needs tourists and foreign workers because it has no oil. To get them it hires tens of thousands of influencers to promote the idea of ‘safe luxury’, rather than ‘dictatorship in a volatile geopolitical area’. Doesn’t mean it’s true.

Their tourism is going to nose dive- I know of 3 trips in my office alone where people are taking what they can from their deposits and rerouting. Yes tax dodgers will still love it but that huge tourism income stream is being eroded!

Past events such as 9/11 would tend to indicate people have shortish memories.

I suspect, so just guessing, that when this all dies down (and it will) the UAE and others, plus the relevant national carriers will throw money at things like advertising, seat sales and discounting holidays and hotels...

Folks will say "it" can't happen again, many in the UK regions will still maintain they'd rather walk than connect in, say, London, and as a result normalish service will resume.

I guess we will find out whenever.

If any of you read Reddit there’s some interesting stuff on there in the UAE community if you dig around and fully read contributions … unreported injured residents etc