DUBAI: Oman’s luxury hotels saw an 8.8 per cent rise in total revenue compared to last year’s figures, local daily Times of Oman reported.
The hotels, falling under the three-to-five-star category, registered $305.5 million total revenues compared to 2017’s $280.8 million.
The figures, released by the National Centre for Statistics and Information, also registered a 4.4 per cent increase in hotel occupancy rates – from 54.8 per cent occupancy to 57.2 per cent.
While occupancy rates rose, total guest numbers witnessed a 5.3 per cent decline, from 866,020 to 819,829 compared to the same January-July period last year.
European nationalities held the top spot in terms of number of visitors at 297,677 while Omani guests came in second at 219,602, both of which were 14.5 per cent and 5.8 per cent fewer than last year, respectively.
