To get it in perspective Outtravel has only reported on Ras al-Kalmah, not the UAE - and the appropriate "modesty" of dress required to cover the human body can produce a minefield of issues in Middle East resorts.
RAK has a burgeoning tourist industry and its international
Half Marathon event has been going for five years .
Here we have many bare arms and legs and (not surprisingly perhaps)
fully-garbed race officials:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...athon_2011.jpg
Btw, there is also a report of three men being kicked out of Saudi Arabia this week for being "too handsome" - one being a photographer from Dubai (but
no opportunity to see him in speedos - unless anyone knows otherwise )