Dubai Welcomes 11.4 Million Int’l Overnight Visitors in 10 Months
The Department of Economy and Tourism (DET) announced the launch of the annual Dubai Tourism Summit, to lay the foundation for a thought leadership program to boost the city’s tourism industry. It also shared the latest tourism report for the first 10 months of 2022.
The emirate was also found popular among global travellers, with 54 million monthly online searches for Dubai recorded during the third quarter of 2022, close to pre-pandemic levels.
Meanwhile, average hotel occupancy in Dubai between January-October 2022 stood at 71 per cent, rising over the 64 percent posted in the corresponding period of last year and just short of the 74 percent during the pre-pandemic period of 2019.
The emirate’s occupancy continues to closely trail cities such as Istanbul (75 percent), New York (74 percent), Paris (73 percent), London (73 percent) and Los Angeles (72 percent).
Dubai’s hotel inventory in October 2022 comprised 144,737 rooms at 790 establishments compared with 122,185 rooms available at the end of October 2019 across 724 establishments. The total number of hotels in the first 10 months of 2022 saw an 8 percent growth over the same period in 2021.
Dubai hotel establishments delivered a combined 30.40 million occupied room nights during the first 10 months of the year, marking a 23 percent YTD growth and a 17 percent increase over the corresponding pre-pandemic period of 2019, which yielded 26.01 million occupied room nights.
The average daily rate (ADR) of Dhs506 during January-October this year surpassed its peers for the first ten months of 2021 (Dhs384) and 2019 (Dhs400). Dubai hotels recorded a 48 percent increase in revenue per available room (RevPAR) in YTD October 2022 vs YTD October 2021 (Dhs362 vs Dhs245).
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