{"id":25913,"date":"2025-06-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/25913\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T11:59:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T11:59:52","slug":"hotels-in-oman-post-strong-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/25913\/","title":{"rendered":"Hotels in Oman post strong growth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oman\u2019s three to five star hotel sector posted strong growth in revenues, guest numbers and occupancy rates in the first four months of 2025, reflecting a continued rebound in the country\u2019s tourism and hospitality industry.<\/p>\n

According to the latest figures released by the National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI)<\/a>, total revenues of three to five star hotels rose 17.3% year-on-year to OMR 109 million by the end of April this year, compared to OMR 93 m during the same period in 2024.<\/p>\n

The increase in revenue was supported by a notable rise in the number of guests, which climbed 8.6% to reach 831,751 by the end of April this year, up from 766,153 guests recorded in the corresponding period of 2024.<\/p>\n

Occupancy rates also saw a significant jump, rising to 61.1% in April 2025 from 53.4% in April 2024 \u2013 an increase of 14.4%.<\/p>\n

NCSI statistics showed strong growth in visitor numbers from several key markets. The number of guests from Oceania registered the highest year-on-year increase of 57.8%, reaching 18,124 visitors. Guests from Africa followed closely with a 57.6% rise to 5,993.<\/p>\n

European tourists continued to represent a major share, rising 19.9% to 314,535 guests. Arrivals from the Americas grew by 19.1% to 28,843, while GCC nationals increased by 12.6% to 53,642. Asian guest numbers rose 5.4% to 114,426.<\/p>\n

In contrast, domestic tourism showed a slight decline. The number of Omani guests dropped marginally by 0.7% to 238,895. Guests from other Arab countries also declined by 2.3% to 32,072.<\/p>\n

The robust growth in international guest numbers and hotel revenues highlights the continued recovery of Oman\u2019s hospitality sector and the growing appeal of the sultanate as a regional and global travel destination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

International guest numbers and hotel revenues rose sharply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25009,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25913","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\/25913","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=25913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26037,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25913\/revisions\/26037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}