The recent statistics issued by the National Center for Statistics and Information in the Sultanate of Oman showed that 3 and 5-star hotel establishments achieved occupancy rates of nearly 37.9 percent during the first nine months of this year, after easing the closure restrictions around the world due to the pandemic.
The hotel occupancy volume, amounted to about 834,000from the beginning of January until the end of last month, compared to 604,000 guests on an annual basis. Revenues amounted to only 59.2 million riyals (about 154 million dollars), compared to 67 million riyals (174.2 million dollars) in the same period last year, representing a decrease of 11.7 percent.
Omanis constituted the largest proportion of the total inmates, with an increase of 115.8%, bringing their number to more than 619,000 compared to more than 286 inmates in an annual comparison. Asian guests came in second place with about 98,000, compared to about 55,000 on an annual basis, with an increase of 79.5 percent, followed by Arab guests from other non-Gulf countries in third place with about 32,000, then Europeans with 29,000 inmates. As for the tourists coming from the Americas, their number reached 13,000, the number of Gulf inmates reached 13,000 & 3,000 guests from Oceania, nearly 3,000 tourists from the African continent, and about 21,000 tourists from other countries.
Source (London-based Al-Arab Newspaper, Edited)
