Oman's 3-5 star hotel revenues jump 7.8% to OMR149.44mn

Muscat: Revenues of hotels classified as 3-5 star in the Sultanate of Oman increased by 7.8 percent by the end of August 2024 to reach OMR149.446  million compared to OMR138.650  million by the end of August 2023.

Statistics issued by the National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI) attributed this increase to an 8.4 percent increase in the total number of hotel guests, recording about 1,400,735 guests by the end of last August, compared to 1,292,509 guests by the end of August 2023, while the occupancy rate recorded a growth of 2.3 percent.

Statistics showed that the number of Omani guests increased by 7.5 percent to reach 541,035 guests, while the number of Gulf guests increased by 0.6 percent to reach 140,394 guests.

The number of other Arab guests reached 69,087, an increase of 13.8 percent, while the number of European guests increased by 16.5 percent to reach 322,632.

The number of guests from the Americas reached 38,190 guests, an increase of 3.2 percent, while the number of guests from the African continent reached 7,569 guests, an increase of 3 percent.

The number of Asian guests increased by 8.3 percent to reach 203,932 guests, while the number of guests from Oceania decreased by 27.2 percent to reach 19,758 guests.