Dubai room charges surge as vacationer arrivals prime pre-pandemic ranges

Dubai reported a report variety of vacationer arrivals within the first half of the yr, topping ranges final seen earlier than the Covid-19 pandemic took maintain and serving to push resort room charges to a contemporary excessive.

Town reported 8.55 million worldwide in a single day guests, up 20% from the primary half of final yr and greater than the 8.36 million vacationers who visited throughout the identical interval in 2019. Common each day resort charges got here in at 534 dirhams ($145.40), up by a fifth from 2019 ranges.

The emirate’s deft dealing with of the pandemic, coupled with a sequence of reforms geared toward attracting guests, helped it preserve its edge because the area’s prime tourism, enterprise and commerce hub. Firstly of the yr, Dubai’s authorities diminished tax on alcohol, leaving town better-positioned to cater to wider swathes of the market.

Vacationers from Western Europe accounted for a couple of fifth of worldwide guests, with Russia, former Soviet states and Japanese Europe contributing 14%.

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