At a rate of 5.1 hotels every month, with a total of 12.8 thousand additional rooms

62 new hotel establishments to open in Dubai in 12 months

The number of hotel establishments in Dubai rose to 977 by the end of August 2022. Archive

Data from the Department of Economy and Tourism in Dubai showed that the emirate witnessed the opening of more than 12.8 thousand new hotel rooms during the 12 months at the end of last August, among 62 new facilities, with an average rate of 5.16 new hotels each month.

According to the data obtained by Emirates Today, the number of hotel rooms in Dubai at the end of August of this year reached 142.2 thousand hotel rooms, compared to 129.3 thousand hotel rooms at the end of August 2021, with a growth rate of 10%.

In detail, the total number of new hotel rooms that were opened in Dubai during the past 12 months between August 2021 and August this year reached 12,826 rooms, at a rate of 1,068 new rooms per month, according to data issued by the Department of Economy and Tourism in Dubai.

The data, which Emirates Today obtained a copy of, indicated that the number of hotel rooms in Dubai at the end of August 2022 reached 142,215 hotel rooms, compared to 129,389 hotel rooms at the end of August 2021, with a growth rate of 10%.

The hotel market in Dubai witnessed the opening of 62 new facilities during the period between August 2021 and last August, with an average of 5.16 new hotels each month, and the total number of hotel facilities increased to 977 facilities in August 2022 compared to 712 facilities at the end of August 2021, with a growth rate of 8.6%. .

The five-star luxury hotel rooms accounted for 34% of the total hotel market size in Dubai, registering about 48,800 hotel rooms within 148 hotel establishments, followed by the “four-star” hotel rooms by 29%, registering 41.2 thousand rooms. Hotel facilities within 184 facilities, while hotels classified between “three stars” and “one star” accounted for about 19% of the total hotel market size, with a capacity of more than 26.3 thousand hotel rooms within 255 hotel facilities.

The number of hotel apartments exceeded 25.6 thousand apartments within 191 facilities, acquiring 18% of the hotel market.

The department's data showed that the average hotel apartments in the emirate recorded the highest occupancy rate, during the period between January and August 2022, with a rate of 78%, followed by luxury hotel apartments by 76%, while hotels classified between one and three stars ranked third with registered occupancy. by 71%, and hotels of the “four-star” and “five-star” category, at 69% for each.

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The performance of the hotel sector in Dubai since the beginning of this year has outperformed at all levels recorded before the “Covid-19” pandemic in terms of the number of booked hotel nights, the average daily price of the room, and the revenue from each available room;

The total number of hotel nights booked in hotel establishments in Dubai reached 18.47 million during the first half of this year, which represents an annual increase of more than 30.4%, and an increase of more than 18% compared to the levels recorded in the same period of 2019, which amounted to 15.71 million. a night.

• 142.2 thousand hotel rooms in Dubai by the end of last August.

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