SAR 477 average hotel room rate in the first three months of 2025, down 3.4%
The occupancy rate of hotel rooms in Saudi Arabia rose by 2.1 percentage points in the first quarter of 2025 compared with the same quarter of 2024, reaching about 63%, while the room occupancy rate in serviced apartments and other hospitality facilities in the same quarter stood at 50.7%, down 3.8 percentage points from the corresponding quarter of 2024.
According to the Tourism Establishments Statistics bulletin for the first quarter of 2025 issued by the General Authority for Statistics, the average daily room rate in hotels reached nearly SAR 477, a decrease of 3.4% from the first quarter of last year, according to the Saudi Press Agency.
The average daily room rate in serviced apartments and other hospitality facilities also recorded about SAR 209 during the same quarter, an increase of 7.2% compared with the same period last year.
The results showed that the average length of stay of a guest in hotels was 4.1 nights during the first quarter of 2025, the same average as in the corresponding quarter of 2024, while the average length of stay in serviced apartments and other hospitality facilities was about 2.1 nights during the same quarter, down 4.5% from the corresponding quarter of 2024.
According to the bulletin, the total number of workers in tourism activities during this quarter rose from the corresponding quarter of 2024 to 983,253 workers, an increase of 4.1%. Saudi workers numbered 243,369, accounting for 24.8% of the total, while non-Saudi workers numbered 739,884, accounting for 75.2% of all workers in tourism activities.
It also showed that the number of male workers in tourism activities was 853,852, accounting for 86.8% of the total, while the number of female workers in tourism activities reached 129,401, accounting for 13.2% of all workers in tourism activities during the first quarter of 2025.
The bulletin's results showed that workers in tourism activities accounted for 5.4% of total workers in the economy during the first quarter of 2025, down 0.3 percentage points from the corresponding quarter of 2024, while workers in tourism activities accounted for 8.1% of total workers in the private sector, down 0.6 percentage points from the first quarter of 2024.
It is worth noting that the Tourism Establishments Statistics data for the first quarter of 2025 are based on several sources to provide comprehensive information on tourism activities in Saudi Arabia, including administrative records data, statistical surveys and secondary data.
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