An average of 4.2 hotels per month, with a total of 9,000 additional rooms
51 new hotel establishments will open their doors in Dubai within 12 months
Data from the Department of Economy and Tourism in Dubai showed that the emirate witnessed the opening of 9,069 new hotel rooms during the 12 months, by the end of last November, within 51 new establishments, with an average of 4.2 new hotels each month.
According to the data, of which Emirates Today obtained a copy, the number of hotel rooms in Dubai, by the end of November last year, reached 145 thousand and 98 hotel rooms, compared to 136 thousand and 30 hotel rooms at the end of November 2021, with a growth rate of about 6.6. %.
In detail, the total number of new hotel rooms that opened in Dubai during the 12 months of 2022, between November 2021 and November 2022, reached 9069 new hotel rooms, at a rate of more than 755 new rooms per month, according to data. Issued by the Department of Economy and Tourism in Dubai.
The data, of which Emirates Today obtained a copy, indicated that the number of hotel rooms in Dubai at the end of November 2022 reached 145 thousand and 98 hotel rooms, compared to 136 thousand and 30 hotel rooms at the end of November 2021, a growth rate of about 6.6%.
The hotel market in Dubai witnessed the opening of 51 new establishments during the period between November 2021 and November 2022, at a rate of 4.2 new hotels per month. %.
And last October witnessed a record number of new hotel rooms that entered the market at a rate of about 2,000 hotel rooms in one month, as the size of the hotel market in Dubai increased from 142,782 rooms in September 2022 to 144,737 rooms in October 2022, and during In the same month, the number of hotel establishments increased from 784 to 790, with an average of six new establishments.
By the end of November 2022, 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%, About 42,000 hotel rooms are registered in 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 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%.
The total number of visitors during the period between January and October of this year approached pre-pandemic levels, at a time when the indicators of: the number of hotel rooms, booked nights, average daily price, as well as the average return on the room, exceeded pre-levels. The pandemic, too.
• October records a record number of new hotel rooms, with an average of 2,000 rooms within 6 facilities
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