Dubai welcomes 3.67 million in a single day guests in first two months of 2024

Dubai welcomed 3.67 million in a single day guests in January-February 2024, a rise of over 18 % year-on-year (YoY), figures launched by Dubai Department of Economy and Tourism (DET) confirmed.

According to the DET’s Tourism Performance Report for January-February 2024, Dubai recorded 1.77 million worldwide guests in January, and 1.9 million in February.

European travellers led the listing with 773,000 vacationers (21 per cent). South Asia got here in second with 604,000 guests (17 per cent), adopted by Gulf Cooperation Council nations with 549,000 (15 per cent).

Coming in fourth, the variety of vacationers visiting Dubai from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and Eastern Europe reached 530,000 (14 per cent), in comparison with 448,000 (12 per cent) from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) area, which landed in fifth.

Meanwhile, Dubai recorded 340,000 guests (9 per cent) from North and Southeast Asia, 240,000 (7 per cent) from the Americas, 138,000 (4 per cent) from Africa and 53,000 from Australia, which accounted for round 1 per cent.

The report additionally confirmed a rise within the variety of obtainable lodge rooms from 148,450 distributed throughout 813 institutions in January-February 2023 to 151,269 throughout 826 institutions in the identical interval of 2024. The common occupancy charge settled at 87 per cent, a 3 per cent development YoY.

Occupied room nights rose to 7.78 million in comparison with 7.28 in the identical interval of final 12 months, with the common size of keep being 3.8 nights.