Hotels rated three to five stars in the Sultanate of Oman saw a 10.3% increase in the number of guests during the first 10 months of 2025, reaching 1,895,159 guests, compared with 1,717,538 guests in the same period of 2024.
Data issued by the National Centre for Statistics and Information showed growth in hotel performance indicators, with total hotel revenues rising by 19.4% to 222.149 million Omani rials by the end of October 2025, compared with 186.098 million Omani rials in the same period last year, according to the Oman News Agency.
The occupancy rate in this category of hotels also rose by 13.5% by the end of October 2025 to 53.6%, compared with 47.2% in the same period of 2024.
Regarding the distribution of guests by nationality through the end of October 2025, guests from Oceania led growth with an increase of 40.5%, reaching 34,441 guests, followed by guests from the Americas, up 31.5% to 62,083 guests, while the number of European guests rose by 23.1% to 483,574.
Guests of African nationalities recorded growth of 18.7%, reaching 11,962 guests, while Asian nationalities saw an increase of 9%, with 273,573 guests.
At the local and regional levels, the number of Omani guests rose by 6.9% to 714,128 by the end of October 2025, while the number of guests from Gulf Cooperation Council countries rose by 6.7% to 181,610. In contrast, the statistics showed a 1.8% decline in the number of guests from other Arab nationalities, which recorded 84,268 guests by the end of October 2025.
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