Muscat: The revenues of 3-5-star hotels in Oman stood at OMR122,530,000 at the end of July 2023, up by 27.8 per cent 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 percent 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 per cent.
The number of Omani guests reached 411,551. Meanwhile, the number of guests from the GCC countries stood at 99,947, marking a rise of 19.1 per cent. The number of European guests also increased by 44.4 per cent to stand at 259,649.
The Americans were 33,420 were Americans (up by 3.3 percent), 6,365 were citizens from African countries (37 percent up), while the number of hotel guests from Asian countries stood at 163,779, marking an increase of 47.1 percent. The number of hotel guests from Oceania countries surged by 242.7 percent to 24,755.