Middle Eastern tourists spent £888 million in London in 2014, leading many luxury retailers to offer VIP treatment around Ramadan, including Arabic speaking concierges and chauffeurs. What’s this group’s ideal shopping experience? And how can brands target consumers that already have it all?

Move over Orlando, Dubai is constructing a path to become a year-round tourist attraction. It's unveiled plans for a $2.8 billion super-sized theme park to be opened in October 2016, which is part of a wider move to centre itself as the leisure and luxury capital of the world.

The Middle East is an untapped e-commerce market, with only 2% of retail sales conducted online in 2015. But as more people turn to their phones to shop, using social media for product inspiration, it's pushing brands into the digital sphere. What do consumers in the region want from e-tailers?

Once upon a time, many young people wouldn’t consider a product with a ‘Made in China’ label to be something of high quality. However, British Yers are rethinking their prejudices, as they conflate Chinese manufacturing with both affordability and technological advancement.