MUSCAT: Revenues from three to five-star hotels in the Sultanate of Oman rose by 10.6 per cent, reaching RO 79.43 million by the end of March 2025, compared to RO 71.80 million during the same period in 2024.
Data from the National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI) indicated that this growth was driven by a 2.3 per cent increase in hotel guests, totalling 610,176 by March 2025 compared to 596,366 a year earlier.
Occupancy rates improved significantly, rising from 54.9 per cent in March 2024 to 59.5 per cent in March 2025 – an increase of 8.3 percentage points.
Guest numbers from the Americas climbed by 11.6 per cent to 21,781, while African guests surged by 70.7 per cent to 4,633. Asian guests grew by 10.1 per cent to 87,210, and visitors from Oceania jumped by 50.9 per cent to 13,098.
Despite the overall rise in foreign guests, the number of Omani guests declined by 9.1 per cent to 171,809. Guests from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries increased by 18.2 per cent to 37,646, while other Arab nationalities decreased by 7.7 per cent to 22,533. European guests rose by 7.5 per cent to 232,986. — ONA
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