Oman receives more than 2m tourists until October 2015

Muscat: The number of tourists who visited the Sultanate till the end of October 2015 stood at 2,200,000.
The statistics issued by the National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI) pointed out that the number of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) tourists stood at 949,063, Indians 237,305, British 120,099and Germans tourist numbers stood at 77,345.
As for the cruise ships tourists, NCSI statistics showed that they reached 101,000 tourists. The Germans cruise ships tourists came on the top with 28,411, followed by the Italians with 11,368, the British Virgin Islands with 8,125, the British with 5,166 and the Spanish with 3,284.
Meanwhile, the statistics pointed out that the total revenues of the 3-5 starts hotels amounted to OMR153.19 million till the end of October 2015, while the number of guests stood at 964,900.
The number of guests of the aforesaid hotels during October 2015 stood at 116,863, compared with 139,883 during the same month in 2014, registering a decline by 16.5 per cent.
As for the nationalities of the guests, the Europeans came first with 40,483, followed by the Omanis with 35,606, the Asians with 13,668, the GCC with 13,232, the Americans with 4,284, the Arab with 5,672 and the guests from Oceania with 1,258.
The aforesaid hotels registered 64.3 per cent occupancy rate during October 2015 compared to 65.2 per cent in October 2014, a decline by 1.3 per cent.