Dubai overnight visitors jump 134% to 11.4 million; Indians, Pakistanis among top travellers

Dubai overnight visitors jump 134% to 11.4 million; Indians, Pakistanis among top travellers

'When the rest of the world is still recovering from Covid, we have been able to see success in our numbers,' says tourism chief

Published: Thu 15 Dec 2022, 1:12 PM

The number of overnight visitors to Dubai in the first 10 months of 2022 more than doubled, driven by a strong inflow of tourists from India, Oman and Saudi Arabia.

According to Dubai Economy and Tourism, the emirate received 11.4 million overnight international visitors during January-October 2022 period, an increase of 134 per cent when compared to the same period last year, Issam Kazim CEO Dubai Corporation for Tourism and Commerce Marketing, said at a conference on Thursday.

The emirate received 4.88 million visitors in the first 10 months of last year. However, the numbers are down by just 16 per cent when compared to the pre-pandemic year.

India and Oman were the two major source markets with million-plus visitors during the first 10 months of 2022, followed by Saudi Arabia, the UK, Russia, the USA, Germany, Pakistan, France and Iran.

“When the rest of the world is still recovering from Covid, we have been able to see success in our numbers despite China still not being back to its full potential. We have diversified