Luxury property like the Palm Islands and year round warm weather ensures Dubai retains a big appeal to the global elite.

A little more than 20 years ago, Dubai was an arid desert outpost on the shores of the Gulf.

Today, world famous architecture rises high above the city’s streets, vast columns of cars roar along highways that reach out to its ever expanding suburbs while offices for some of the world’s largest firms populate the flashy new business district downtown.

It has been a truly remarkable transformation in such a short space of time. Watch