Oman's hotel revenues grow 27.8% to RO 122m in July 2023

Muscat: The revenues of 3-5-star hotels in Oman stood at RO 122,530,000 as at the end of July 2023, up by 27.8% over the corresponding period in 2022.

Statistics issued by the National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI) show that the total number of hotel guests grew by 25.8 per cent to 1,098,157 by the end of July 2023, compared to 872,796 during the corresponding period in 2022.

Hotel occupancy posted a growth of 10.3%.

The number of Omani guests reached 411,551. Meanwhile, the number of guests form the GCC countries stood at 99,947, marking a rise of 19.1%. The number of the European guests also increased by 44.4% to stand at 259,649.

The Americans were 33,420 were Americans (up by 3.3 per cent), 6,365 were citizens from African countries (37 per cent up), while the number of hotel guests from Asian countries stood at 163,779, marking an increase by 47.1 per cent. The number of hotel guests from Oceania countries surged by 242.7 per cent to 24,755.