Hotels rated 3 to 5 stars in the Sultanate of Oman welcomed 831,751 guests during the first four months of 2025, an increase of 8.6% compared with 766,153 guests in the same period of 2024, according to data issued by the National Centre for Statistics and Information.
Hotel revenues rose by 17.3% to OMR 109.213 million in the period from January to April 2025, compared with OMR 93.094 million in the same period last year. The occupancy rate also rose from 53.4% to 61.1%, an increase of 7.7 percentage points, according to a post on the Oman News Agency website.
The statistics showed that the number of guests from Oceania recorded the highest growth rate at 57.8%, reaching 18,124 guests. Africa came second with a growth rate of 57.6% and 5,993 guests, followed by European guests with growth of 19.9%, reaching 314,535 guests.
The number of guests from the Americas also rose by 19.1% to 28,843, and from the Gulf Cooperation Council countries by 12.6% to 53,642 guests. Asian nationalities recorded an increase of 5.4%, with 114,426 guests.
In contrast, the number of Omani guests recorded a slight decrease of 0.7% to 238,895 guests during the first 4 months of this year, while the number of guests from other Arab nationalities fell by 2.3% to 32,072 guests.
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