UAE: Ajman seeks to boost tourism sector

UAE: Ajman seeks to boost tourism sector

Inhabited by more than half a million people with around 54,000 registered businesses that collectively generate around Dh22 billion (US$5.45 billion) Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Ajman attracts an estimated more than a million tourists of which more than 600,000 stay in 45 hotels and serviced apartment complexes scattered across 259 square kilometres of land.

Ajman announced its UAE Tourism Strategy 2032 earlier this year. It aims to raise the tourism sector’s contribution to the GDP to Dh450 billion, with an annual increase of Dh27 billion; strengthen the position of the UAE as one of the best destinations in the world for tourism; boost competitiveness by attracting Dh100 billion as additional tourism investments and welcome 40 million hotel guests annually by 2031.

The emirate, which has been benefiting from the economic spillover effects from the neighbouring Dubai and Sharjah emirates, has gradually started to pick up the pieces from its larger neighbours. With a strong manufacturing and industrial belt that contributes about 20 percent to the economy of Ajman, its government is currently focusing on developing tourism attractions to power economic growth.

Its hotel inventory includes 3,997 hotel rooms and 250 tourism establishments that are actively working to attract tourists. Ajman Department of Tourism