The total revenue of Omani hotels in the three-to-five-star category fell by 6.3% to OMR43.9 million till the end of February 2020 compared to OMR46.9 million for the same period of 2019.

However, hotel occupancy rates fell by 7.8% to reach 62.5% at the end of February 2020 against 67.8% for the same period of 2019, according the latest monthly statistics released by the National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI).

Meanwhile, the total number of guests in Omani hotels rose by 0.8% in the 2-month period of 2020, reaching 311,219 million from 308,880 million guests for the same period of 2019.

Among the nationalities, Europeans constituted the maximum number of visitors, reaching 127,331. This was followed by 84,379 Omani guests and 31,171 Asian tourists till the end of February 2020, the data released by NCSI revealed.

There was a rise in the number of American guests, Oceanian guests, and GCC guests by 5%, 10.2%, and 12%, respectively until the end of February 2020 compared to the same period of 2019.

However, there was a drop in the number of European, African and other Arab guests by 7%, 0.4% and 5.6%, respectively.

Omani hotels received 1.77 million guests and the hotels generated a total revenue of OMR229.5 in 2019.