Atlantis provides the setting for the new televised bootcamp. Atlantis provides the setting for the new televised bootcamp.

 Dubai's Atlantis hotel has been picked as the setting for a post-Christmas fitness bootcamp being broadcast on one of the UK’s leading breakfast television shows.


‘Downsize in Dubai’, which launched on Jan 9, is following four viewers of ITV’s Daybreak show as they struggle to shed their Christmas weight in the sunny Gulf emirate.


The segment is broadcast live to around 700.000 viewers each morning, fronted by reality TV star Mark Wright, who rose to fame in the series ‘The Only Way is Essex.’

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Wright, who was a runner-up in the ‘I’m a Celebrity’ series, said he was excited to be visiting “exciting Dubai” to film the show.


“We can all get a bit lazy after the Christmas binge, but I'll be ready to motivate our recruits and whip them into shape as we take them to amazing Dubai to get fit for 2012,” he said.


The camp is being shot at the Atlantis hotel on Dubai’s Palm Jumeirah.


Brits are among the highest spending tourists to the UAE, with thousands visiting the Gulf country each year. A report by Visa last year found Brits spent an average of $441.2m on their Visa cards in 2010 while in the UAE, followed by US tourists who spend an average of $301.9m