The arrival of tourists in Dubai has doubled this year | News Hub

             Dubai welcomed 11.4 million visitors between January and October.

   Dubai (Newshub Update Latest News 26 December 2022) The number of international tourist arrivals in Dubai has doubled in the months of January to October 2022. Between January and October, 11.4 million tourists visited Dubai, with the highest number of international visitors at 1.4. Millions were from India. Dubai hosted 11.4 million international visitors in the first 10 months of the year from January to October, up 134 percent from 2021, according to The National News, citing official figures from the Dubai Department of Economy and Tourism.

   The figures show that Dubai's 10-month performance is 15% lower than the 13.5 million international visitors it hosted in 2019 before the start of the pandemic.

   Emirates NBD research analyst Jamal Matar said in a research report that Dubai's tourism sector maintained its strong performance in 2022 and picked up momentum as the last quarter of the year began, 2022 and 2019. The 15 percent difference in visitor numbers between January and October in the first 10 months of 2018 has remained fairly consistent throughout the year as the global travel industry has yet to fully recover from the effects of the pandemic.

   It has been reported that Dubai aims to host 40 million visitors by 2031, bringing the tourism sector's contribution to GDP to 450 billion dirhams by 2031, with an annual growth of 27 billion dirhams. Dubai was the top market with 1.4 million visitors between January and October, up 116 percent from last year, followed by Oman with 1.1 million visitors and Saudi Arabia with 993,000 visitors. That the number of tourists coming from Great Britain was 832 thousand.

   It found that increased guest arrivals kept Dubai's hotels occupied at 71.5 percent from January to October, up from 63.7 percent in 2021, but below the 73.8 percent booking level in 2019, year-to-date as of October. Despite an 18 percent increase in average booking room inventory in 2022, it was only 2.4 percentage points below pre-pandemic levels.