MUSCAT : Statistics issued by the National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI) show that the total number of hotel guests increased by 3.9 percent to reach 1,929,485 guests by the end of November 2024, compared to 1,857,729 guests during the corresponding period in 2023.

Meanwhile, hotel occupancy rate registered a growth of 1.5 percent.

According to the NCSI report, among nationalities, Omanis topped the number of guests in hotels, with their number reaching 739,406 (an increase of 4.9 percent).

As many as 466,827 were European guests (an increase of 4.7 percent), and 277,627 were Asian guests (up by 4.8 percent).

The number of guests from the GCC countries rose by 0.1 percent to 182,408, while the number of guests from Oceanian countries fell by 30 percent to 28,038 guests. The number of African guests rose by 6.4 percent to reach 11,108.

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