{"id":17565,"date":"2024-10-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/17565\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T07:16:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T07:16:29","slug":"oman-hotels-post-8-rise-in-revenues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/17565\/","title":{"rendered":"Oman hotels post 8% rise in revenues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Revenues of three, four and five-star hotels in the Sultanate of Oman rose by nearly 8% in the year to August 2024, reaching approximately OMR 150 million.<\/p>\n<p>This compares to OMR 139 million at the end of August 2023, according to statistics released by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncsi.gov.om\/ar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Centre for Statistics and Information.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This increase is attributed to a rise of 8.5% in the total number of hotel guests with more than 1.4 million guests recorded by the end of August. The occupancy rate also saw growth of 2.3%.<\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=1939585955  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-60961 size-fusion-600\" src=\"https:\/\/mlzlkxvcvliz.i.optimole.com\/cb:ghTT.1f99\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/g:sm\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/wp-content\/uploads\/moi870164168-600x287-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Generic Hotel View in Oman\" width=\"600\" height=\"287\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The data shows that the number of Omani guests increased by 7.5%, reaching just over 541,000. The number of Gulf guests rose by 0.6%, totalling more than 140,000.<\/p>\n<p>The number of other Arab guests increased to more than 69,000.<\/p>\n<p>European guest numbers grew by 16.5% and guests from the Americas rose by 3.2%. The number of guests from Africa increased by 3%, while guests from Asia increased by more than 8%. Oceania was the only continent where guest numbers declined, with a drop of more than 27% by the end of August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of guests at three, four and five-star hotels rose to more than 1.4 million in the year to August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-posts-and-videos","category-trade-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17565"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43769,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17565\/revisions\/43769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}