TOURIST ATTRACTIONS

The Future Champions Day card was sponsored entirely by Dubai on Saturday, but it was Qatar that muscled in on the action when Strong Suit won the Burj Khalifa Challenge Stakes to set up a trip to next month's Breeders' Cup meeting. The three-year-old colt, owned by Sheikh Fahad Al Thani, took the Group 2 contest in commanding style and will be sent to Churchill Downs by the trainer Richard Hannon in a bid to deny Goldikova a historic fourth victory in the Breeders' Cup Mile.

The Pavilion Downtown Dubai, a leading artistic venue for the local UAE artist community, has announced that it will be hosting three exciting days of design-centric events for the inaugural Festival of Interior Design (FoID), which will be held from October 22 to October 24, 2011 throughout Dubai.

Dubai boasts of a number of the world's biggest and tallest structures, not to mention having at least five Guinness world record entries within one square kilometre in Downtown Dubai. The Guinness World Records presented a plaque yesterday recognising ‘At.mosphere' as the world's ‘Highest Restaurant from Ground Level".

Eva Longoria is right now on her first trip to the Middle East. Today, she is in Dubai and tweeted from the 124th high Burj Khalifa‘s observatory At the Top: “Hello Dubai! I’m in the tallest building in the world! Armani building also called Burj Khalifa, its beautiful here!”

The event, called 'Project Stylist', will be held at the Pavillion Downtown Dubai and will serve as a platform for budding artistes in search of recognition. Guiding the participants is Marissa Woods, Founder and Director of Image Factor who has an industry experience of over a decade.

Marina Bay Sands is an integrated resort fronting Marina Bay in Singapore. Developed by Las Vegas Sands, it is billed as the world's most expensive standalone casino property at S$8 billion, including cost of the prime land.

Thanks to a minimum spend request of Dh450 per person, I knew, even before I had stepped into the sleek, high-speed lift, ready to be whooshed up to the 122nd floor of the Burj Khalifa, that dinner at At.mosphere Grill, the world's highest restaurant, was going to be expensive. What I'd also expected, though, was that it would impress.

Grosvenor House, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Dubai celebrates the first of four new dining experiences to open in the breath-taking Tower Two. Toro Toro (meaning bull) is an all new dining concept developed by internationally acclaimed, Latin American Chef Richard Sandoval. The restaurant offers varied dining experiences that span over two floors on the marina's edge.

Situated on the 122nd floor of the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, At.mosphere serves dinner with a view from 1,350 feet. Sprawling below is the futuristic Sheikh Zayed Road, Dubai’s main motorway lined with space-age skyscrapers that twinkle by night. You might even catch a glimpse of the world’s biggest fountain, a spectacular display of dancing water jets set to music that sits at the foot of the 2,716ft tall tower.

The poster shows Tom Cruise, the film's lead actor, who, as super spy Ethan Hunt, scaled the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, among other stunts performed in Dubai. The film releases at the end of the year and is hotly tipped to play a role in the Dubai International Film Festival in December.