Thursday 25 / April / 2024
Salalah: The number of visitors to the Salalah Tourism season at the end of the 11th week (June 21 to September 5, 2018) reached 811,170.
The arrival of tourists increased by 28.7 per cent compared to the same period in 2017, which was 630,234.
According to the latest statistics released by the National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI), the number of visitors fell by 74.3 per cent to 14,314 compared to 55,670 visitors during the tenth week of the current season.
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NCSI Statistics showed that the number of visitors who arrived by land during the end of the 11th week reached 80.4 per cent to 652,095 visitors, which is a rise of 37.7 per cent compared to 473,614 visitors during the same period of 2017.
The number also showed a drop of 81.4 per cent to 8,402 from 45,209 visitors in the 10th week of the current season.
A total of 159,075 visitors reached the Governorate of Dhofar by air, an increase of 1.6 per cent over the same period in 2017, which was registered at 156,620 visitors.
