Dubai plans world's largest hotel

Dubai is planning to build the world's largest hotel as part of a $27 billion resort project unveiled on Monday to spearhead the Gulf emirate's drive to become a global tourism hub.

Promotional video of the Bawadi project showed a 10 km (6.2 miles) long resort strip that resembled Las Vegas without the casinos — its 31 hotels modelled on ancient Egyptian palaces, Hollywood, London's Houses of Parliament and even the moon.