Abu Dhabi’s hotel guest numbers have reached a record 1.2 million for the April to June period, a 6.8 percent increase compared to same period last year, the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi) said in a statement.

The total room revenues also posted an 8.2 percent year-on-year rise in the second quarter of the year, while the total hotel revenues were 3.7 percent higher.

While hotel guest numbers for 2019 so far have reached 2.5 million, a rise of 3.5 percent since 2018, hotel revenues have surged by 10.6 percent to 2.9 billion dirhams.

So far in 2019, key indicators such as revenue per available room (RevPar) and average room rate (ARR) are up by 10.7 percent and 10.2 percent, respectively.

The emirate’s attractions also saw a 50 percent rise in the number of tourist visits in the second quarter, driven by a 62 percent growth in visitors to leisure and theme parks, along with a 21.5 percent rise in number of visits to cultural and historical sites, and a 22 percent increase at museums.

In the second quarter, Abu Dhabi attracted hotel guests from key international markets, with numbers from Saudi Arabia rising by 23.6 percent, and those from India up by 15.8 percent.

In March this year, DCT Abu Dhabi allocated a budget of of 500 million dirhams as part of marketing campaigns to attract more tourists to the emirate over the next three years. Read more here.

(Reporting by Nada Al Rifai, editing by Seban Scaria seban.scaria@refinitiv.com)

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