Figures released yesterday by Dubai's Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DTCM) show steady year-on-year growth and significant increases across key indicators, including hotel establishment revenues and guest nights.
India is placed second in the total number of guests who checked in to hotels last year.
For January to December 2014, Saudi Arabia was once again the top source market, followed by India, UK, USA, Iran, Oman, China, Kuwait, Russia and Germany, the report said.
"The 2014 figures demonstrate healthy year-on-year growth for hotel establishment guest numbers with significant increases from Asia, Africa and Western Europe," said Helal Saeed Almarri, Director General of DTCM.
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"Such events, as well as our hosting of the largest ever tourism industry FAM trip from India in December 2014 and steps taken to leverage the exemption of pre-entry visas for all European Union member states, are crucial to further strengthen ties with key markets," Almarri said.
"We currently own and/or manage nearly 90 hotels worldwide with a room inventory of 37,000," he said.