New Delhi: India remains the biggest international travel source market for Dubai. As Dubai witnessed most travellers from India in year 2021 with 9.1 lakh visitors from the country. A number of mega events like the IPL, T20 World Cup and the ongoing Dubai Expo has seen a large number of people travelling to UAE from India. It can be considered as the biggest destination for desi travellers.
According to Dubai Tourism, the city saw 7.38 lakh international overnight visitors between January and December 2021. It is 32% more than last year’s count for the same period.
Dubai stronghold regained monument to register positive growth during 2021, with No.1 source market India delivering 910,000 visitors (5.3%YoY), followed with 491,000 travellers from Saudi Arabia 9(+22.8% YoY) while Russia and UK contributed 444,000 visitors (+50.3% YoY) and 420,000 visitors (+7.1% YoY) respectively,” said in a statement.
“With domestic tourism accounting for a large share in the accommodation sector, Dubai’s hotel performed strongly in the fourth quarter to achieve significant growth across all hospitality metrics compared to 2020. for the first time, the hotel sector outperformed before pre-pandemic levels across measurements in Q42021 including over 81.4% occupancy compared to 80.7% during Q42019” it read in a statement.
Average ocuupancy reached to 67% in 2021 compared to 54% in the previous years, which is among the highest occupancy rates internationally” it added.
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