Dubai Tourism: it reached 64% ... and India tops the export market with 176,000 visitors

The average hotel apartments recorded the highest occupancy between July and October 2020

• Dubai received 757,000 international visitors during the period between July and October 2020. Emirates Today

• 5-star rooms account for 35% of the total hotel market in Dubai.

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Data from the Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing in Dubai showed that the emirate received 757,000 international visitors during the period between July and October 2020, while the average hotel apartments recorded the highest occupancy rate during this period, at a rate of 64%, and India topped the list of the most important markets for visitors to the emirate.

Visitors and markets

In detail, data from the Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing in Dubai showed that the emirate received 757,000 international visitors during the period between July and October of this year.

India was at the forefront of the markets for international visitors to the emirate during this period, registering about 176,000 visitors, followed by Pakistan with about 80,000 visitors, then Egypt with 53,000 visitors, while the total number of visitors from the United Kingdom was about 50 thousand, followed by France ( 28 thousand visitors), then Kazakhstan (26 thousand visitors).

The United States recorded more than 22 thousand visitors, while the Sudanese market came in eighth place with about 20 thousand visitors, compared to 18 and 16 thousand visitors from the Ethiopian and Chinese markets.

Hotel rooms

According to the data that Emirates Today obtained a copy of, the number of hotel rooms in Dubai at the end of last October reached 118,660 hotel rooms within 678 hotel establishments.

The luxurious five-star hotel rooms accounted for 35% of the total size of the hotel market in Dubai, after it reached 41,329 hotel rooms within 125 hotel facilities, followed by the four-star rooms by 26%, and 31,468 hotel rooms were registered within 149 establishments.

In turn, hotels classified between three stars and one star acquired about 18%, with a capacity of 20,978 hotel rooms within 219 hotel establishments.

Occupancy and yield

The occupancy rate in all hotel establishments reached 51%, with average hotel apartments recording the highest rate of 64%, compared to 61% for luxury apartments, followed by small and medium hotels from the one-star to three-star categories by 56%, while the four-star hotels achieved , And five-star hotels, occupancy rates of 49 and 42% each, respectively.

According to the data, the stay of guests increased to 4.1 hotel nights, while the number of reserved nights reached 15.6 million, and the average daily price for a hotel room was 335 dirhams, to record the return of available rooms about 172 dirhams.

Global markets

With regard to the source of visitors by geographical region, the Dubai Tourism data showed that South Asia ranked first, after it acquired 36% of the total number, followed by the Middle East and North Africa region, and the European market by 16% each.

Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States ranked fourth, with 9% of the total number of visitors, while Africa scored about 7%, North and Southeast Asia 6%, and the Americas 5%, compared to 4% for the Arab Gulf states, and 1% for Australia.

Hotel Appartments

Hotel apartments accounted for about 21% of the total size of the hotel market in Dubai, recording 24,885 hotel apartments within 185 establishments, of which 10 thousand and 430 luxury apartments, and 14,455 medium-sized apartments.

• The number of hotel rooms in Dubai reached, by the end of October, 118.6 thousand rooms, out of 678 establishments.

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