1. network!
2. try and move to a Virtuoso travel agency in the not too distant future
3. keep building luxury market knowledge, and really leverage it

there are TAs on FT, including 1-2 Virtuoso TAs in the luxury hotels forum for example. you might try talking to them, or check out the website(s) that one of them has.

if you want to live in Dubai and work for Emirates, you might also want to consider getting some other job in Dubai. Corporate travel, sales, PR, marketing, plenty of related fields..

not sure why you want to go back to uni, but you should definitely explore whether it would be possible to get a job where your employer would pay for all/part of it.