{"id":26707,"date":"2025-07-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/26707\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T11:59:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T11:59:58","slug":"tourism-investments-in-duqm-pass-omr-850-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/26707\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism investments in Duqm pass OMR 850 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Total investment in the tourism sector in the <a href=\"https:\/\/duqm.gov.om\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Special Economic Zone at Duqm<\/a> exceeded OMR 853 million by the end of last year.<\/p>\n<p>The list of tourism investments in Duqm includes 21 hotels, 10 hotel apartment complexes, and a multi-use tourism project featuring hotels, villas, and serviced apartments.<\/p>\n<p>These figures reflect the growing demand for tourism services in the region, the increasing number of tourists and visitors, a dynamic business environment, and the incentives and facilities provided by the Public Authority for Special Economic Zones and Free Zones, as well as the management of the Special Economic Zone at Duqm.<\/p>\n<p>Engineer Ahmed Akkaak, CEO of the Special Economic Zone at Duqm, said that tourism interest in the Zone is growing due to its location on the Arabian Sea overlooking the Indian Ocean, its mild year-round climate, and the availability of facilities and services that support tourism growth.<\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=2090805361  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-87342 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\/Tourism-2-e1753606368356-600x486-1.jpeg\" alt=\"OMR 853 million in tourism investments in Duqm \" width=\"600\" height=\"486\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a statement to the Oman News Agency he added that the management of the Special Economic Zone at Duqm, in cooperation with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opaz.gov.om\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Public Authority for Special Economic Zones<\/a> and Free Zones, is organising sports, economic, and tourism events to highlight the region\u2019s investment and tourism potential and to encourage investors to invest in the tourism sector, one of the Zone\u2019s key investment sectors.<\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=415985635  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-87345 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\/Tourism-3-600x300-1.jpeg\" alt=\"OMR 853 million in tourism investments in Duqm \" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He said that the management of the Zone is working to encourage the private sector and entrepreneurs to capitalise on the region\u2019s natural assets by developing various tourism projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tourism investments in Duqm include 21 hotels and 10 hotel apartment complexes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26707","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\/26707","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=26707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26709,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26707\/revisions\/26709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}