Data for the Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing in Dubai showed that the hotel market in the emirate witnessed the entry of 8,442 new hotel rooms during 11 months, between January and the end of November 2019, within 16 new establishments, i.e. an average of more than 767 hotel rooms every month.
According to the data «Emirates Today» obtained a copy of, the new offer included various room categories, including hotel apartments, and the total number of hotel rooms in Dubai reached 124 thousand and 409 rooms at the end of November 2019, compared to 115 thousand and 967 rooms at the beginning January 2019 (with a growth rate of 7.28%), of which 25 thousand and 194 hotel apartments, indicating that the total number of hotel establishments in turn increased to 732 properties.
According to statistics, at the end of last November, the luxurious five-star hotel rooms accounted for about 34% of the total hotel market size in Dubai, after they numbered 42,603 rooms within 124 hotel establishments, followed by the rooms of the “four” category. Nojoom », which accounted for about 26% of the size of the hotel market, registering 32,582 rooms within 157 properties, while hotels classified between“ three stars ”and“ one star ”came in third place, after their share reached about 19%, with a capacity of It reached 24,30 hotel rooms within 255 properties.
At the end of November 2019, the number of hotel apartments establishments "Delcos" reached 68 establishments, which include 10, 465 hotel apartments, accounting for 9% of the total Dubai Hotel Market, compared to 128 "Standard" establishments comprising 14 thousand and 729 hotel apartments, with a share of 12%.
Statistics showed that during the period between January and November of 2019, the properties of apartments apartments "Delcos" and "Standard" recorded the highest occupancy rate of 76%, while luxury hotels of the "five-star" category recorded a occupancy rate of 74%. The overall occupancy rate for all hotel establishments operating in Dubai reached 75% between January and November 2019.
It is noteworthy that Dubai received 15 million international visitors during the first 11 months of 2019, equivalent to 1.36 million visitors per month, compared to 14.3 million visitors received by the emirate in the same period of 2018, a growth of about 5%.