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Salalah visitors up by 28 per cent

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Muscat: The number of visitors to Salalah during the tourist season 2018, which was between June 21 and September 21, touched 826,376, a rise of 28.1 per cent compared to 2017, when it was 644,931, according to statistics released by the National Centre for Statistics and Information.


About 94.4 per cent tourists visited Salalah for recreation and entertainment, with their number reaching 779,703, which is an increase compared to 604,774 in 2017. As many as 12,966 tourists visited their relatives, families and friends; 23,281 were on business trip and 10,426 visited for other purposes.


Based on the results of the survey on the number visitors of the Salalah tourist season 2018, the percentage of GCC visitors, including Omanis, reached 90.6 per cent, at 748,515. It is a 29.9 per cent increase over the number in 2017, when it was 576,006. They were followed by 48,907 from Asia, a significant increase compared to 44,801 in 2017 season.


The number of other Arab tourists was 22,306, while those from the Europe reached 4,293. The number of tourists from other countries was 2,355. As per the NCSI data, 77.1 per cent of visitors were residents of the Sultanate, reaching 637,320. This is a significant increase over 500,112 in 2017. The number of non-residents visiting Salalah tourism season 2018 reached 189,056, which is an increase compared to 1,819 visitors in 2017.


The number of tourists who reached Salalah by land was 656,853, which is an increase of 37.2 per cent against 478,872 visitors in 2017.


According to the data, 169,523 tourists travelled to Dhofar by air, which is a rise of 2.1 per cent compared to 2017, when it was 166,059. About 122,194 visitors reached Salalah travelled by domestic flights and 47,329 through international flights.


The largest number of visitors to Salalah came during the period July 1 to 31, 2018, reaching 239,156. It was followed by the period between August 1 and 31. The number during the period from June 21 to 30 was 36,456 and between September 1 and 21 was 23,766. — ONA


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