Travel Weekly Blog

Travolution editor Kevin May is going to be guest blogging from the ITT Conference in Dubai. Here comes his first post...

Hopefully I can be forgiven for not being entirely aware of the surroundings last night after arriving in Dubai for the annual extravaganza that is the ITT Conference.

Crawling into bed at 2am at The Address, Downturn Burj, after a long flight from London, it never occurred to me open the curtains or step out onto the balcony.

So imagine my surprise this morning when I discovered this outside the hotel room window.

The tallest building in the world, still under construction about 300 metres away.

For the photographic purists out there, I'll admit I struggled to include it all in the frame, thus why the top is missing.

One of the most obvious things about Dubai is that the construction programme feels like it is a competition between the imaginations of wacky architects.

Fast forward a few hours and I was interviewing the executive chairman of Jumeirah Group, Gerald Lawless, from its Al Qasr hotel by the beach, with the Burj Al-Arab in the background...

...which seems rather tame in comparison these days...