4.81 million nights booked

Dubai receives 810,000 international tourists during last January and February

The number of hotel rooms in Dubai reached 129 thousand hotel rooms by the end of February.

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Data from the Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing in Dubai (Dubai Tourism) showed that the emirate received 810,200 international tourists during the months of January and February last, indicating that the total number of hotel rooms in Dubai, by the end of last February, reached 129,20 hotel rooms. Within 712 hotel properties.

According to the data, of which Emirates Today obtained a copy, the stay of guests increased to 5.3 hotel nights, while the number of reserved (rooms) nights reached 4.81 million nights.

Receive tourists

In detail, data from the Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing in Dubai (Dubai Tourism) showed that the emirate received 810,200 international tourists during the months of January and February.

According to the data, India was at the forefront of the source market for international visitors to Dubai, during January and February 2021, registering more than 221,000 visitors, followed by Russia with about 56,000 visitors.

While the total number of visitors from the United Kingdom reached about 34 thousand, followed by France in fourth place with 32 thousand visitors.

Egypt recorded about 28 thousand visitors in fifth place, while Pakistan ranked sixth with 25 thousand visitors, and 22 thousand from the United States, compared to about 20 thousand from Kazakhstan, and 19 thousand and 17 thousand from Ukraine and Nigeria each, respectively.

Hotel rooms

By the end of last February, the number of hotel rooms in Dubai reached about 129,20 hotel rooms, within 712 hotel establishments.

The luxurious five-star hotel rooms acquired 35% of the total volume of the hotel market in Dubai, after they reached 44 thousand and 484 hotel rooms, out of 134 hotel facilities, followed by the four-star rooms, at a rate of 27%, recording 35 thousand And 309 hotel rooms, within 162 properties.

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In turn, hotels classified between three stars and one star acquired about 18%, with a capacity of 23,317 hotel rooms, within 230 hotel establishments, while the number of medium and luxury hotel apartments facilities reached 186 facilities, including 25,910 apartments, with the acquisition of apartments 20% of the total hotel capacity in Dubai.

The occupancy rate in all hotel establishments in the emirate reached 65% during January and February 2021.

The data showed an increase in the stay of guests to 5.3 hotel nights, while the number of reserved (rooms) nights reached 4.81 million nights, while the average daily price for a hotel room reached 390 dirhams, to record the return of available rooms about 253 dirhams.

The South Asia region ranked first in terms of the source of visitors to Dubai, by geographical region, after it acquired 33% of the total number of visitors, followed by Western Europe, Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States by 18%, each.

The share of the Middle East and North Africa region reached 10% of the total number of visitors, and Africa reached 9%, and 4% for each of America, North and Southeast Asia, and the Arab Gulf states.

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