Muscat: The Ministry of Heritage and Tourism has reported that over 1 million visitors traveled to the Dhofar Governorate this year (1,006,635) since the start of the Khareef season in June and until August 31, 2024, an increase of 8.7 percent from 924,127 visitors who visited in 2023 during the same period.
Of these 753, 105 visitors were Omanis, 176,162 GCC nationals, and 121,767 other nationalities.
The number of visitors coming by flight increased 5.2 percent from 209,528 in 2023 to 220,528 while 776,107 passengers came by road.
Overall
Most travelers arrived in August (593,513), followed by 393,829 in July and 19,293 in the nine days of June.
The Sultanate of Oman received 2.3 million visitors in the first seven months of 2024, an increase of 2.4 percent from 2.2 million people who visited the country during the same period in 2023.
The top five nationalities among visitors were Emiratis (714,636), Indians (367,166), Yemenis (139,354), and Germans (79,439). Around 4.7 million visitors left the country during the same period, which included 3,353,777 Omanis, 506,121 Indians, 302,351 Pakistanis, 171,799 Bangladeshi, and 131,575 Yemenis. There are 3,361 Omanis and 6,843 expatriates employed in three to five-star hotels in the Sultanate of Oman.
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