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The total revenue of hotels in Oman in the three-to-five-star category fell by 6.3 per cent to RO43.9 million till the end of February 2020, compared to RO46.9 million for the same period of 2019, Oman News Agency (ONA) reports.
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As per ONA, according to the latest monthly statistics released by the National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI), hotel occupancy rates fell by 7.8 per cent to reach 62.5 per cent at the end of February 2020, versus 67.8 per cent for the same period of 2019.
Meanwhile, the total number of guests in hotels across the Sultanate rose by 0.8 per cent in the two-month period of 2020, reaching 311,219 million from 308,880 million guests for the same period in 2019.
Among nationalities, Europeans constituted the maximum number of visitors, reaching 127,331. This was followed by 84,379 Omani guests, and 31,171 Asian tourists till the end of February 2020, the NCSI data revealed.
There was a rise in the number of American, Oceanian, and GCC guests by 5 per cent, 10.2 per cent, and 12 per cent respectively, until the end of February 2020 compared to the same period in 2019.
However, there was a drop in the number of European, African, and other Arab guests by 7 per cent, 0.4 per cent, and 5.6 per cent, respectively.
Hotels in Oman received 1.77 million guests, to generate a total revenue of RO229.5 in 2019.
Source: ONA
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