10.5% increase in the number of Abu Dhabi hotel guests in August

Media In – Abu Dhabi – 22 September

 The number of hotel guests in Abu Dhabi rose 10.5 per cent in August 2018 compared to the same month last year, according to the Department of Culture and Tourism. The Department confirmed that the results of August confirm the accompanying tourist momentum provided by the “Summer season of Abu Dhabi” as the emirate moves forward to exceed the record number of guests registered last year, which amounted to about 5 million guests. The number of hotels, resorts and apartments in Abu Dhabi reached 477,606 during the month of August, up 45,000 from the same month last year. The number of hotel guests increased by 5.8 per cent during the first eight months of this year, bringing the total number of guests to more than 3.31 million hotel guests. The tourism destination recorded growth in most of its main overseas markets during August and China maintained its leadership of the largest foreign tourism market in the emirate in terms of the number of Chinese guests in its hotel facilities, which rose by about 9 percent in August and more than 13 percent in the first eight months compared to For the same period in 2017. India came in second with Indian guests growing by 22 per cent in August, while the number of Saudi guests rose for the third month in a row, with growth reaching 24 per cent in August and 6.1 per cent from January to August 2018. “These results reinforce our confidence in record annual results again, while the Abu Dhabi summer season, which took place from June to August, stimulated tourism traffic and increased the number of hotel guests in the first eight months,” said Saif Saeed Ghabash,