Hotels Dubai to host 5.8 million tourists to the first half

 

Hotels Dubai to host 5.8 million tourists to the first half

Dubai hotels have received more than 5.8 million tourists in the first half of 2014 growth of 2.3%. The statistics issued by the Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing in Dubai yesterday to increase in a range of key indicators such as the number of hotel guests and hotel revenues and hotel apartments and food and beverage revenue, in addition to the average length of stay.

According to the newspaper "United Arab Emirates today," said Helal Saeed Al Marri, Director General of the Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing in Dubai: "still our strategy based on a single axis, namely that the Dubai one of the tourism destinations of family that should be had. So we are always keen to diversify its tourist offers and upgrading Dubai accommodation so that attract larger numbers and meet the needs of a broader range of markets. suggest numbers achieved during the first half of 2014 with a high degree of optimism and enthusiasm, and we will continue relying on growth and take advantage of it to ensure success in the second half of the year. "

Marri explained that the figures indicate an increase in the number of visitors coming from many of the major markets in major world such as China, Brazil, Australia and other countries in Europe.

He pointed to the importance of this increase comes despite the reduction in flights due to the renovation and modernization of the runway at Dubai International Airport, which shows the effort of Dubai Airports and workers in the tourism sector to ensure the least amount of turmoil in the tourist movement.

During the first half, the total number of guests in all the hotel facilities of different classification 5,828,449 inmates, which is larger than the number recorded in the same period in 2013 has been the first 10 major markets attracted by Dubai Tourism unchanged compared to last year, but has seen a change slightly at the sites continued to show the diversity of visitors traveling to Dubai.

The list of the top ten markets in the period from January to June 2014 from both Saudi Arabia and India, the United Kingdom and the United States, Russia, China, Iran, Oman, Kuwait and Germany.

Saudi Arabia and still constitute the main market in Dubai, the number of visitors has grown from the two most popular in the world, namely China, which ranked sixth, and India in second place.

China has a particularly large increase amounted to 26% and increase comes as a result of high desire Chinese population to travel abroad on the one hand and marketing campaigns for the Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing and its partners in the tourism sector in Dubai on the other hand, which aims to take advantage of this for the benefit of the emirate.

He said Helal Saeed Al Marri: "The numbers in front of us to achieve steady growth in the first half of the year, although this indicates anything, it indicates that we are on track to achieve the medium-term plans. Most importantly, that this growth is sustainable and will move forward to achieve the objectives of the vision of tourism for 2020 in addition to the increase in the number of hotel guests since the end of June 2013, Dubai has to add more than 7,000 new hotel rooms, bringing the total number of rooms 88.680 rooms across 634 hotel facility. continues the number of hotels in Dubai growth and diversity, enabling us to meet the needs and requirements of the travelers on the one hand and to expand the markets in which to promote Dubai in it. "