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Dubai to see 2.5m Saudi tourists by 2020

DUBAI, May 24, 2016

Ranked among the top destination choices for Saudi Arabian travellers, Dubai can expect to see tourist arrivals from the kingdom hit 2.5 million a year by 2020, said a report quoting an Emirati official.

The UAE emirate recorded a total of 1.5 million Saudi visitors in 2015, Arab News quoted Issam Kazim, CEO of the Dubai Corporation for Tourism and Commerce Marketing, as saying.

According to Kazim, visitors to Dubai from the GCC countries made up 25 percent of the total number of tourists from around the world in the first quarter of 2016, with 456,000 Saudis visiting between January and March, a 14 per cent increase as compared to the corresponding period last year.

Other tourist markets included the Indian subcontinent, which was the second leading source market for Dubai with 467,000 tourists, while Oman came in thrid with 322,000 tourists.

Visitors from the US were recorded at 166,000 for the first quarter of this year. Iran was the only country which saw a decline in the number of visitors to Dubai

“Dubai tends to attract a huge number of tourists because of efforts to promote tourism potential based on the wide list of festivals and other attractive events,” Kazim said. - TradeArabia News Service




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