UAE continues to maintain its regional and international leadership in tourism

UAE continues to maintain its regional and international leadership in tourism

ABU DHABI - The UAE is continuing to maintain its regional and international leadership as a distinguished travel destination and a preferred country for living and working.

Due to the directives of its leadership, the country witnessed progress in terms of outcomes and indicators, which confirmed its recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.

The country has strengthened its position on the world tourism map, becoming a leading international tourism destination and a top ten country in several international competitiveness indexes related to the tourism, travel and hotels sectors in 2021.

Emirati hotels attracted nearly six million visitors who spent 25 million hotel nights in the first quarter of 2022, an increase of 10 percent compared with the same period of 2019. Moreover, their period of stay in hotels grew by 25 percent during the same period, while the hotel occupancy rate was 80 percent, one of the highest internationally.

Hotels achieved earnings totalling AED11 billion in the first quarter of 2022, an increase of 20 percent compared to the same period in 2019. These hotels resumed activities at full capacity, totalling nearly 200,000 hotel rooms.

In terms of flights and hospitality, the number of passengers who arrived at the country's airports exceeded 20 million in the