How Dubai wants to be the center for games and esports | Marwan Al Zarouni interview

A quick quiz. What place in the world has a 10-year plan for esports? If you answered the United Arab Emirates and Dubai in particular, you would be right.

Such visions aren’t new to this place. Dubai started as a fishing village in the 18th century. It got its first airport in 1960 and it started dredging its port in 1963. Dubai publicist Tony Lewis remembers coming over to visit when the first golf course was just a dream back in the 1980s. The sheikh at the time decided a grass golf course in the sands would attract business tourists.