Huge success – GulfToday – Gulf Today

Huge success – GulfToday – Gulf Today

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It’s a huge success for the United Arab Emirates government’s tourism policy to attract millions of people after the hiatus of Covid -19 pandemic (“Dubai receives 8.5 million visitors in first half of 2023, exceeding pre-Covid levels,” July 17, Gulf Today website).

According to the report, during the first half of the year 2023, the tourism sector in Dubai outperformed the levels before the Covid-19 pandemic in terms of the number of international visitors, for the same period of the years 2019 and 2018, reflecting its ability to deal with the challenges posed by Covid-19 on the tourism sector globally.

The city’s hotels received more than 8.5 million international visitors during the first half of 2023, according to the latest data, compared to about 8.36 million international visitors that the city received in the first half of 2019, a growth of 1.7%, and the number of