488.3% jump in visitors arrival: Oman

488.3% jump in visitors arrival: Oman

According to figures from the National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI), the number of inbound visitors rose to 183,000 in March, taking the total number of visitors to the country during the first quarter of the current year to 415,000.

“People from the Gulf countries constituted 37.8 per cent of the total number of 69,192 visitors to be ranked first in the nationalities”, states the report about the tourism data.

Indians, Germans and Yemenis came at the second, third and fourth place with 13.2 per cent, 4 per cent and 3.8 per cent respectively during the month.

The report indicated that revenues for three to five-star hotels registered a substantial rise of 125 per cent to reach RO 19 million during March 2022 compared to RO 9 million during the same month last year.

The total number of guests in these hotels rose to 158,000 from 132,000 last year with a 20.1 per cent increase.

At the same time, the report pointed out that the total number of outbound visitors also rose significantly to reach 340,000 with Omani nationals taking the lion’s share in a total of 340,000 during March 2022.

“The Omani outbound visitors reached 60.4 per cent from the total of visitors during