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    • Oman sees 432.4% jump in visitors in February 2022

    By on April 14, 2022
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    Muscat:The number of people arriving has jump by more than 400 per cent in February 2022 compared to the same month of 2021, according to the National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI)

    122,000 travelers visited Oman in February 2022, and increase of 432.4 percent compared to 23,000 in February 2021. while 230,000 travelers visited Oman and 606,000 people left the country until end of February 2022 according to NCSI.

    GCC citizens were among the top nationalities that visited the Sultanate of Oman until the end of February 2022, followed by Indian, France and British nationals. While GCC citizens accounted for 45,148 people (36.9%), Indian visitors were second in number, accounting for 12.7% of the visitors, followed by France (4.2 per cent), and British (4%)

    The data also shows that 305,000 people left the Sultanate in February, with Omani nationals accounting for 61.7% of the total departing the country.

    More people arriving into the Sultanate also meant a direct positive impact on revenues earned by hotels this year. The data also reveled Hotels rated 3-to-5 star hotels was OMR 16mn IN February 2022 compared to OMR 7mn in the same month in 2021, an increase of 135.9 percent.

    The number of guests stayed in the hotels was 162,000, compared to 90,000 guests in the same period in 2021 , an increased of 79.1 percent.

    The occupancy rate in these hotels was 52.5 percent, compared to 39.1percent in the same month of 2021, an increased of 34.4 percent.

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