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UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Six Flags to Dubai

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Six Flags on Tuesday announced a plan to develop an amusement park in the glittery Persian Gulf city-kingdom of Dubai, which is the flashiest of seven kingdoms in the United Arab Emirates.

Reports Kimi Yoshino of The Times’ business desk:

The Six Flags park is the latest addition to Dubailand, a 3-billion-square-foot project that will include restaurants, hotels, Universal Studios Dubailand and DreamWorks Animation Park. Groundbreaking on the Six Flags portion is expected to begin in 2009.

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A press release distributed by Tatweer, the Emirati partner in the deal, described it as ‘the first Six Flags project to be developed outside of North America.’

That may well be. But will it encourage North American and European travelers to take their families on vacations to the oil-rich Persian Gulf?

— A Times Staff Writer

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