Leader in business and entertainment, Dubai is the most modern and progressive emirate in the UAE.

Guest Photographer feature: “Discover Dubai through Frigyes Toth & Zsolt Toth’s Eyes.”

Frigyes is a computer programmer engineer and Zsolt is a graphic designer and digitally VR photographer. We can do everything in the Virtual Tours industry.

We are living in Dubai and running our own company Al Fanoos Al Malaki L.L.C. (alfanoos.net). Our main project is the 360emirates.com portal. You can see the best and important places within U.A.E and Dubai in this virtual tour collection. By using this interactive solution, you will be able to fly into virtual tour and fly away to another location. The virtual tours are combined with Google Earth layers and the result a unique product in the world… 360emirates.com.

The 360 degrees panorama photos give you the feeling that you are almost there. Our goal to increase this feeling by using all possible multimedia and interactive solutions. For example you can see a factory where machines are working inside the 360′s photo at gulfex.360emirates.com. A special hotel demonstration can be seen at stgeorge.360emirates.com and you can explore virtual tours from most luxury villas at albarari.com. Another important project created upon request of the Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities composed of more than 170 panorama photos can be seen at 360saudiarabia.com. We have virtual tour projects in the hotel industry (Hilton, Le Meridien, Atlantis, The Address, Crown Plaza… etc) and the tourism industry (Dubai Museum, Burj Khalifa Tower, Jumeirah Palm, Jumeirah Medinat…etc).

We like to shoot high quality in photo shooting and retouching and we try to use the latest multimedia solutions when we create a virtual tour.

More about Frigyes Toth & Zsolt Toth can be found at: 360emirates.com

Dubai (Arabic: دبيّ‎ Dubayy English pronunciation: /duːˈbaɪ/ doo-BYE) is one of the seven emirates of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It is located south of the Persian Gulf on the Arabian Peninsula and has the largest population with the second-largest land territory by area of all the emirates, after Abu Dhabi. Dubai and Abu Dhabi are the only two emirates to have veto power over critical matters of national importance in the country’s legislature. The earliest recorded mention of Dubai is in 1095, and the earliest settlement known as Dubai town dates from 1799. Dubai was formally established in the early 19th century by the Al Abu Falasa clan of Bani Yas, and it remained under clan control when the United Kingdom assumed the protection of Dubai in 1892.

In the 1820s, Dubai was referred to as Al Wasl by British historians. Few records pertaining to the cultural history of the UAE or its constituent emirates exist and because of the region’s oral traditions, folklore and myth were not written down. The linguistic origins of the word Dubai are disputed; some believe it to have originated from the Persian language, while some believe that Arabic is its linguistic root. According to Fedel Handhal, a researcher in the history and culture of the UAE, the word Dubai may have come from the word Daba (a derivative of Yadub, which means to creep); referring to the slow flow of Dubai Creek inland. The poet and scholar Ahmad Mohammad Obaid traces it to the same word, but to its alternative meaning of locust.

Tourism is an important part of the Dubai government’s strategy to maintain the flow of foreign cash into the emirate. Dubai’s lure for tourists is based mainly on shopping, but also on its possession of other ancient and modern attractions. As of 2007, Dubai was the 8th most visited city of the world. Dubai is expected to accommodate over 15 million tourists by 2015.Dubai is the most populous emirate of the seven emirates of United Arab Emirates.

It is distinct from other members of the UAE in that a large part of the emirate’s revenues are from tourism. Dubai has been called the “shopping capital of the Middle East”. Dubai alone has more than 70 shopping malls, including the world’s 7th largest shopping mall, Dubai Mall. The city draws large numbers of shopping tourists from countries within the region and from as far as Eastern Europe, Africa and the Indian Subcontinent. While boutiques, some electronics shops, department stores and supermarkets operate on a fixed-price basis, most other outlets consider friendly negotiation a way of life. Dubai is also known for its souk districts located on either side of the creek.

Traditionally, dhows from the Far East, China, Sri Lanka, and India would discharge their cargo and the goods would be bargained over in the souks adjacent to the docks. Many boutiques and jewellery stores are also found in the city. Dubai is known as “the City of Gold” and Gold Souk in Deira houses nearly 250 gold retail shops. Dubai Duty Free at the Dubai International Airport offers merchandise catering to the multinational passengers using the airport.

More panoramas of Dubai can be seen in Arounder Dubai.