{"id":64195,"date":"2015-03-03T09:42:56","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T09:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irhalwp.irhal.com\/irhal-travel-news\/general-travel-news\/hotels-in-dubai-welcome-more-than-11-6m-guests-in-2014\/"},"modified":"2015-03-03T09:42:56","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T09:42:56","slug":"hotels-in-dubai-welcome-more-than-11-6m-guests-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irhal.com\/irhal-travel-news\/general-travel-news\/hotels-in-dubai-welcome-more-than-11-6m-guests-in-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Hotels in Dubai welcome more than 11.6m guests in 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-64194\" src=\"https:\/\/irhal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image_irhal_airport_a380-dxb-sunset.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dubai\u2019s hotel establishments welcomed 11,629,578 guests in 2014, registering a 5.6% increase on 2013\u2019s total. Figures released today by Dubai\u2019s Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DTCM) show a steady 5.6 percent year-on-year growth in hotel establishment guests, and hotel and hotel apartment room revenues rise 12 percent to AED 15.2 billion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For January to December 2014, Dubai\u2019s top ten hotel guest source markets included Saudi Arabia at the top, followed by India, UK, USA, Iran, Oman, China, Kuwait, Russia and Germany. China moved from tenth position to seventh, experiencing 24.9% growth in the last 12 months with 344,329 hotel guests compared to 275,675 in 2013. The March 2014 UAE federal ruling that exempted citizens of 13 European member states from requiring a pre-entry visa to the UAE \u2013 joining the other 15 European member states for which the exemption already applied \u2013 contributed to increases in hotel guest numbers from European countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The figures for 2014 indicate that Dubai is continuing to maintain growth at a sustainable level, while also growing its portfolio of hotels and hotel apartment establishments, thus taking another step closer to achieving its Tourism Vision for 2020, which aims to welcome 20 million visitors a year by 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Dubai\u2019s hotel establishments welcomed 11,629,578 guests in 2014, registering a 5.6% increase on 2013\u2019s total. Figures released today by Dubai\u2019s Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DTCM) show a steady 5.6 percent year-on-year growth in hotel establishment guests, and hotel and hotel apartment room revenues rise 12 percent to AED 15.2 billion.\u00a0 \u00a0 For [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":64194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3455],"tags":[],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/irhal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/image_irhal_airport_a380-dxb-sunset.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irhal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irhal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irhal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irhal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irhal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/irhal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irhal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irhal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irhal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irhal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}