I have made the decision to stick with my initial topic of interest: Saadiyat Island Cultural District in Abu Dhabi. Especially as my both assignments about Saadiyat Island proved me that I just like to write about it, and it becomes already kind of passion. Besides, my supervisor Dr. Chowne contributed to this project, and he is as same as me excited about it.
My idea is to write on cultural quarters, which is an urban phenomenon since the 1970s all over the world and use SI Cultural District as a case study. Many cities develop cultural quarters with the aim of economic regeneration. That's not the case in Abu Dhabi, as AUH is a very wealthy emirate. It's a question of prestige and educational contribution to UAE's people. However, the development of SI Cultural District should attract tourism into the Emirate, to be not completely dependable on its oil resources. So either primarily or secondarily the SI development should contribute to AUH's economy while enhancing the city's profile in order to attract culture-led tourists and contributing to AUH's cultural tourism development.
Consequently, my title will be: Cultural Quarters as an Instrument of Cultural Tourism Development: A Study of Saadiyat Island Cultural District, Abu Dhabi.
Research aims: 1. To study the orle that Cultural Quarters have played in the development of cultural tourism. 2. To examine how Saadiyat Island Cultural District might contribute to the emirates overall tourism development. 2. To identify benefits and potential issues Saadiyat Island Cultural District might face, with particular reference to the economy, people of Abu Dhabi, and cultural institutions with the city, and to make recommendations for overcoming them.
In conclusion my research objectives are to explore the academic literature on terms 'cultural tourism development' and 'cultural quarters'; to set a context with Abu Dhabi and SI Cultural District; to use qualitative research approach to explore and identify key persons' (from the tourism industry) point of view; to analyse this data and formulate it to recommendations.

I have met with Samantha who was my lecturer in Tourism Planning and Policy. The reason for the appointment with her was because I am thinking of analysing AUH's tourism strategy. Sam gave me the idea of comparing Dubai and AUH. I could interview eight people from both destination's stakeholders. I would first compare both strategies and identify similarities and differences, and then ask those stakeholders what they think is a better way. The problems I will face are (1) to get the tourism strategies, (2) to find willing interviewees, and (3) to find time to travel to the UAE. But on the whole I think this sounds very interesting. To include the financial crisis related to the AUH' s and Dubai's tourism industry, I would need to prove that there have been changes in the tourism policies since then, and which again will be very difficult to find out. I have not thought yet about my strategy how to contact key persons who would give me these information, and I would like to talk about that to my supervisor Dr. Chowne who I would meet on Wednesday, 29th April.

I have had an appointment with Dr. Peter Chowne yesterday who was involved in the Abu Dhabi project Saadiyat Island. He gave me a very good idea what I could concentrate on. He told me that there is an article in Guardians newspaper which is about Dubai and how it was hit by the global financial crisis. Abu Dhabi was not, at least very very less. Why is that? Did they have a better tourism strategy? Did they plan it better? Or is it the tourism product they offer? With the construction of the Saadiyat Island Abu Dhabi becomes very well known because it offers an unique cultural tourism product. How successful could Abu Dhabi be? And how long would their tourism industry last?