The total revenue of Omani hotels in the three-to-five-star category rose by 8.2% to OMR141,329m (one hundred forty-one million three hundred twenty-nine thousand) till the end of August 2019 compared to OMR130.653m (one hundred thirty million six hundred fifty-three thousand) for the same period of the previous year.

However, hotel occupancy rates fell by 7.6% to reach 52% at the end of August 2019 against 56.2% for the same period of 2018, according the latest monthly statistics released by the NCSI.

Meanwhile, the total number of guests in Omani hotels showed a significant increase by 18.9% in the eight-month period of 2019, reaching 1,130.672 from 950,860 guests for the same period of 2018.

Among the nationalities, Europeans constituted the maximum number of visitors, reaching 372,939. This was followed by 341,026 Omani guests and 140,853 Asian tourists till the end of August 2019, the data released by NCSI revealed.

There was a rise in the number of American guests, Oceanian, GCC and other Arab guests by 25.8%, 4.6%, 1.3% and 17.8% to reach (42,648); (10,065); (139,479); and (49,149) guests, respectively. However, there was a drop in the number of African guests by 5% to reach 7,722.