Originally Posted by
willy wombat
They are tourists, not project workers. They are heading to or returning from Europe.
Have you spoken to any of these Chinese tourists whilst you were in Dubai and asked or are you assuming!
The huge amount of Chinese tourists visiting Europe tend to go direct not via the ME3, the Chinese inbound tourism market is huge and what your seeing in Dubai is just a very small percentage of that, it doesn't necessarily mean that most Chinese visitors to Europe stop off in Dubai.
I've just checked my figures for Saturday and I notice that the company I work for has 1253 Chinese passengers embarking over two ships and checking their flight details ALL of them are flying directly to London from China, that doesn't include those disembarking as I don't have those figures yet but I'm assuming the majority will be returning directly back to China with some staying in the UK before returning home but I've yet to come across any that have traveled via Dubai, there's a good example!