tourism slideshow
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In the mid-1980's Bruce Green was promoting a major world-class tourism attraction "Madinat Al Khayal" (City of Imagination) to be based in Bahrain. In 1986 a bridge was completed linking this Island nation to the mainland of Saudi Arabia. In the 80's Bahrain was competing with Dubai to become the regional stop-over for international air travel. Since Bahrain did not to invest in their future tourism industry in the 80's, Dubai since captured the dominant market share. These pictures include some of the original artist's renderings of the "Medinat Al Khayal" concept as well as photos of a recent (2007) visit to Bahrain and Dubai. Bruce Green is now utilizing his experience in promoting a tourism attraction called "Little Kabul" in Fremont California.TRANSCRIPT
Bruce Green in Bahrain, April 2007, at Muharraq Bridge showing Manama’s skyline.
Millions of dollars are now being spent by Bahrain, but a unique opportunity was missed in the 1980’s when Bruce Green was promoting Medinat Al Khayal, a world-class tourist attraction.
In 1986 the completed King Fahd Causeway
opened the door to
regional tourism.
In the 80’s Bahrain’s International Airport was about the same size as Dubai’s.
But which became the international hub by 2007?
Our 1987 concept of a Theme Park to be located on landfill off the coast of Bahrain.
Title page from our 1983 original portfolio of concepts.
Now Dubai is the regional stop-over for international travel and tourism.
At Dubai airport in 2007.
What might have been in Bahrain?