Hotels and airports profit from Oman’s rise in visitors

Hotels and airports profit from Oman’s rise in visitors

Revenues for hotel operators in Oman rose by 17 percent to OR25 million ($64 million) in January as passenger numbers through the sultanate’s airports increased by more than one-fifth. Oman welcomed more than 1.4 million people through its main airports in Muscat, Salalah, Sohar and Duqm, according to data from the National Centre for Statistics […]

Hotel revenues up 17% in January

1.4 million airport passengers

Indian visitors most common

Revenues for hotel operators in Oman rose by 17 percent to OR25 million ($64 million) in January as passenger numbers through the sultanate’s airports increased by more than one-fifth.

Oman welcomed more than 1.4 million people through its main airports in Muscat, Salalah, Sohar and Duqm, according to data from the National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI).

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India topped the list for passenger nationalities arriving at Muscat International Airport, followed by Bangladesh and Pakistan.

In 2016 the sultanate launched a 25-year strategy to increase the number of tourists visiting more than fourfold, from 2.6 million in 2015 to 11.7 million a year by 2040.

Oman wants to increase tourism’s contribution to GDP to 6 percent, from 2.6 percent, by building hotels and promoting destination “clusters”.

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