The total number of incoming visitors exceeded incoming visitors by more than 35 times in May 2021
Muscat: Revenues from three- to five-star hotels increased more than 200% between May 2022 and May 2021, according to government figures.
Hotels earned thirteen million OMRs in May 2022, to just four million OMRs in May 2021 – a 205% increase in revenue. in 2021, a cumulative of 105 percent, according to May Tourism Index figures released by the National Center for Statistics and Information (NCSI).
In addition, another 216,348 people entered Oman in May this year, up from 6,036 in May 2021, reflecting a 35-fold increase in arrivals to the country. 54. 5% of all incoming visitors were citizens of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries. Oman is one of the six members of the GCC. The other five are the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain.
The remaining Arabs accounted for 284 arrivals in May 2021, up to another 17,939 people in the same month this year. Some 56,184 Asians also arrived in Oman in May 2022, a sharp increase from the other 723 people who arrived in May 2021.
While only 170 Europeans arrived in Oman in May 2021, a large increase in arrivals from Europe led to the arrival of another 16,071 people from that continent to the country in May 2022.
The number of other people from the Americas and Africa who arrived in Oman also increased, but they made up a relatively small proportion of arrivals to the country. 3987 Americans arrived in Oman in May 2022, compared to just forty-five arrivals in May 2021. , while some 3,613 Africans also arrived, a massive backlog of just 47 arrivals at the same time last year.
While only four other people from Oceania arrived in Oman in May 2021, around another 590 people from this part of the world visited the country in May 2022.
“The total number of incoming visitors is more than 35 times higher than incoming visitors in May 2021, which stood at 6,000 people,” ncSI said in its tourism report.
By the end of May 2022, some 794,000 visitors had arrived in the country, while 1. 5 million visitors had left Oman in the first five months of this year.
GCC citizens account for the highest percentage of visitors to Oman in 2022: some 349,986 more people with Gulf State nationality visited Oman from January to May 2022. Indians also account for a higher proportion of visitors (111,883), followed by Yemenis (28,495). ), Pakistanis (23,603) and Germans (23,289).
In the first five months of the year, more than 650,000 visitors also stayed in 3- to five-star hotels in Oman, earning those homes OMR 73 million during that period.
A monthly report that provides a summary of tourism statistics in Oman, the Tourism Index also provides data on the total number of visitors entering the Sultanate of Oman, divided by nationality.
The report also provides statistics on the total number of visitors leaving Oman, while also breaking them down on the basis of Omani and foreign visitors. It also provides information on profits generated through hotels rated 3 to 5 stars, as well as occupancy rates and the number of visitors to the hotel. .