Dubai hotels welcome 11.6 million guests in 2014

DUBAI, March 3 (KUNA) -- Dubai's hotel establishments welcomed 11,629,578 guests in 2014, registering a 5.6 percent increase on 2013's total.
Figures released Tuesday by Dubai's Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing, DTCM, show steady year-on-year growth and significant increases across key indicators including hotel establishment revenues and guest nights.
The figures for 2014 indicate that Dubai is continuing to maintain growth at a sustainable level, while also growing its portfolio of hotels and hotel apartments, thus taking another step closer to achieving its Tourism Vision for 2020, which aims to welcome 20 million visitors a year by 2020.
Dubai's top ten hotel guest source markets in 2014 remained almost entirely unchanged from 2013, with only slight shifts in positioning. For January to December 2014, Saudi Arabia was once again the top source market, followed by India, UK, USA, Iran, Oman, China, Kuwait, Russia and Germany.
Revenues for hoteliers and hotel apartment operators saw significant growth, with total revenues reaching AED 23.9 billion (about USD 6.5 billion) for 2014, up 9.8 percent from AED 21.8 billion (USD 5.9 billion) in 2013. (end) hni.ibi