With a growth of 113% .. and overnight stays exceeding the barrier of 34 million
Dubai receives 12.8 million international tourists in 11 months
Dubai welcomed 1.4 million international visitors during the month of November alone.
Photography: Ahmed Arditi
India has been at the forefront of the source market for international visitors to Dubai.
Photography: Ahmed Arditi
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The Department of Economy and Tourism in Dubai revealed the latest statistics on the performance of the tourism sector and the number of international visitors, which showed that the emirate attracted 12.82 million international tourists between January and November 2022, compared to 6.02 million international visitors in the same period last year, an increase of about 113 million. %.
According to the department's data, "Emirates Today" obtained a copy of it. Dubai received more than 1.4 million international visitors during November alone, while the total number of visitors during the period between January and October of this year approached levels before the "Corona" pandemic, at a time The indicators of: the number of hotel rooms, nights booked, average daily rate, as well as the average return on the room, also exceeded pre-"pandemic" levels.
According to the data, India came at the forefront of the export markets for international visitors to Dubai, during the period between January and November 2022, registering more than 1.6 million tourists, followed by Oman with about 1.2 million visitors, while the total number of visitors from the Saudi market reached about 1.1 million visitors, and from United Kingdom 938 thousand visitors.
In turn, Russia ranked fifth with about 647,000 visitors, followed by the United States with about 588,000 visitors, then Germany with about 360,000 visitors, France with 329,000 visitors, and Pakistan with about 320,000 visitors, while Iran recorded about 300,000 visitors.
In addition, the number of hotel rooms in Dubai at the end of November 2022 reached more than 145,000 hotel rooms, within 794 hotel establishments, compared to about 136,000 hotel rooms, within 743 establishments at the end of November 2021, and the average hotel occupancy was recorded in all establishments operating in Dubai. 73%, compared to 66% in the same period in 2021.
Luxury hotel rooms of the "five-star" category accounted for 34% of the total volume of the hotel market in Dubai, registering about 49.1 thousand hotel rooms within 149 hotel establishments, followed by hotel rooms of the "four-star" category, by 29%, registering about 42 thousand. Hotel rooms within 187 establishments.
For its part, hotels classified between "three stars" and "star" accounted for about 19% of the total volume of the hotel market, with a capacity of more than 28.1 thousand hotel rooms, within 265 hotel establishments.
As for hotel apartments, their number exceeded 25.7 thousand apartments within 193 establishments, thus accounting for 18% of the hotel market.
The length of stay of guests between January and November 2022 recorded about four hotel nights, compared to 4.6 nights in the same period in 2021, while the number of nights (reserved rooms) reached about 34 million overnight stays, compared to about 28.1 million overnight stays in the corresponding period. a growth rate of 21%.
According to the data, the average daily price for a hotel room was 521 dirhams, compared to 418 dirhams in the corresponding period, so that the return from available rooms was about 378 dirhams, compared to 275 dirhams.
The Gulf Cooperation Council region ranked first in terms of the source of visitors to Dubai, accounting for 21% of the total number of visitors during the first 11 months of this year, followed by Western Europe with 20%, then South Asia with 17%. %.
In turn, the Middle East and North Africa region accounted for 12%, and the Russia, CIS and Eastern Europe regions accounted for 11%.
The Americas accounted for 7%, Africa 5%, North and Southeast Asian countries 5%, and the “Australasia” region that includes Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and neighboring islands 2%.
Australia leads the growth of tourists
Australia ranked first among the markets exporting tourists to Dubai during the period between January and November 2022 in terms of the growth rate of visitors, compared to the same period in 2021, as the number of visitors from Australia grew by 559%, recording about 160,000 tourists, and the Sultanate of Oman came in the center The second in terms of growth rate, after reaching about 449%, and the number of visitors from Kuwait witnessed a remarkable growth of 301%, recording 238 thousand visitors this year.
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