Tourism is on the increase in Oman over the past few years. The Khareef season, which has started in Salalah, has already seen a large number of visitors.
According to the tourism indicators issued by the National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI), 618,000 tourists visited Oman until end of April 2015. GCC visitors topped the list with 71,923 tourists followed by 24,452 Indians, 14,230 British nationals, and 8,051 Germans arriving in the Sultanate.
Of the 88,000 tourists who visited Oman, a majority were Europeans with 27,651 German tourists leading the way, followed by 11,305 Italians. There were also 8,125 tourists from the British Virgin Islands, 3,371 from the United Kingdom and 3,233 from Spain.
Meanwhile, hotel revenues of three and four-star hotels touched OMR73,887,000 until end of April, having accommodated 414,030 guests.
Further, according to NCSI, between 6 June and 13 July 2015, 29,025 people visited Salalah, which is a 5.2% increase as compared to 27,586 during the same period last year. Among the GCC nationals, Omanis made up 50.9% of visitors, Emiratis made up 8.3% and the rest of the GCC nationals made up 5.2%.
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